coughing on purpose, again

I have gone to Mt. Auburn three days in a row to give them sputum samples, which they will test to figure out whether I have an obscure infection. Now I can wait 8-12 weeks for those results. I was briefly alarmed by an automated MyChart message with results from the first day's sample, just because I wasn't expecting to have any results this soon. But I called the doctor's office, and they confirmed that it's normal to run those tests before trying to culture the same.

That does mean that they got a usable sample on Wednesday, which both I and the techician had been unsure of.

Also, that's three days in a row of going out and about, and standing around in the cold waiting for transit, so I'm probably going to stay close to home tomorrow.

This was with a different tech than yesterday and the day before, and he switched from a medical mask to a better mask before having me sit down and start breathing the nebulized salt water. (The other tech did so on her own Wednesday, but argued with me before putting on a good mask yesterday.)