lungs and cough: keep on as I have been

[redbird]

I sent the pulmonologist a message yesterday:

I was feeling a lot better at the end of the course of antibiotics, but am still coughing occasionally. It's sometimes a productive cough, so I am continuing to use the flutter valve twice a day, after taking mucinex and using the albuterol inhaler. Is this still appropriate?

Also, I got several automated test result messages based on the blood samples, all of them negative or normal range. Is there anything we need to do here?

Her reply this evening was:

Hi Vicki,

Yes I agree, the labs look great. Nothing else to pursue there. Agree with your plan for the flutter valve, mucinex and albuterol. Let's see how things unfold in the coming weeks.

So, keep on keeping on.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

cheers on your alveoli

[redbird]

I think I mentioned in one of these posts that "chronic lung disease, such as bronchiectasis" is listed as a risk factor for covid infection. So, there's that: if I wasn't already/still being more covid cautious than most of the population, this would be an argument for increasing my masking etc. As is, we were already in a situation where I and Adrian were almost the only two masked people at the pulmonologist's office. So there's that.

[minoanmiss]

Yeah, people are a bit exhausting about this. I'm really glad it's my clinic's policy to mask, even if at least one patient per day whines about it. (FFS people)

[sabotabby]

Yay lungs! Keep working please.