why yes I am stil sick

[wendyzski]

Despite 4 days on "anti-roboticks", I'm still coughing like a seal with a 3-pack-a-day habit.

So I'm generally not a lot of fun to be around at the moment, presumably except for tobacco executives trying to target the marine mammal market...

Comments

[eacole72.livejournal.com]

I hope that the stuff I'm taking can help you, too.

A random thought that I just had. Have they tested you for a mold/fungal infection in your lungs? My dad came down with one after cleaning out an older grainary that ended up taking a couple years to diagnose & treat.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

No - this is the usual progression that happens 2-4 times a year

Step 1 - have asthma
Step 2 - get a cold (optional)
Step 3 - start coughing, which worsens asthma symptoms
Step 4 - every bacteria in the neighborhood goes "yaaaaay" and moves in
Step 5 - lung infection aka "that cough I can taste"

then hopefully
Step 6 - go to doctor and get a course of prednisone and an antibiotic from column B
Step 7 - are you better y/n? If n, goto Step 6
Step 8 - infection clears
Step 9 - inflammation sslloowwllyyy clears, with or without prednisone depending on how bad it was

These past 3 years the 6-7 round has gone around more times than I like. This past year we've been experimenting with an anti-inflammatory inhaler to be added in around step 3, in the hopes that things can be headed off at the pass. As of yet it hasn't worked, but we have managed to keep things from going off track to the "coughing blood" stage more than once a year.

I was doing better the first few days on the Z-pack but today I feel worse again, so I may have something resistant. The Z-pack runs out Friday and if I still think this I'll go back to the doc on saturday for something stronger.

[ladyariyana.livejournal.com]

so that means you hold a cigarette in your mouth as you clap your fins together and bop the bicycle horns with your nose??? .. That might be worth seeing.. heck I might pay money to see that.. well except for the coughing part.. because thet just sucks.. and would require you to do your tricks from within a lysol bubble.. and yeah that just ruins it all..

Love you {{{bearhugs}}} and a nice warm cup of tea.. and a chocolate chip cookie bar if you want one... I baked them yesterday..

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

mmmm - cookies.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

"anti-roboticks"

Nanites?

[katexxxxxx.livejournal.com]

Ikk. Sounds exactly like what happens to Big Sis, who tops it off with bronchitis, and, once, bronchial pneumonia. You be dead careful, missy!

Makes me feel glad I just hurt and have knees like barrage balloons...

[stealthbunny.livejournal.com]

Will this make you laugh? Gimpy was up on the window ledge, drinking from the bird bath. Jazzi squeaked, stalked, then Gimpy walked along the window sill, munching on spilled bird seed. Jazzi started smashing her head against the window and doing the paw-patter move, and Gimpy just.... watched her. From an inch-worth-of-glass away from sheer death. Munched. Turned. Shook her squirrely tail. Jumped down.

Jazzi turned, gave me a traumatized look and WAILED.