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I've definitely had better weeks: the chest X-ray shows pneumonia.
The doctor calmly told me that he doesn't think I need to be hospitalized--good! I'm to continue on the antibiotics, and see him again Monday morning. He'll examine me again, and give me paperwork to get another chest X-ray when I finish the antibiotics, meaning the end of next week or beginning of the following week.
This also messes up my social plans for the next few days, in part because he doesn't want me to risk giving this to my aunt.
Apparently the reason I didn't get the earlier message is that they left it on the voicemail of my old work number, somehow managing to believe that it was my home number. That number should now be out of my records, sparing us having this happen again.
The doctor calmly told me that he doesn't think I need to be hospitalized--good! I'm to continue on the antibiotics, and see him again Monday morning. He'll examine me again, and give me paperwork to get another chest X-ray when I finish the antibiotics, meaning the end of next week or beginning of the following week.
This also messes up my social plans for the next few days, in part because he doesn't want me to risk giving this to my aunt.
Apparently the reason I didn't get the earlier message is that they left it on the voicemail of my old work number, somehow managing to believe that it was my home number. That number should now be out of my records, sparing us having this happen again.
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I suspected as much.
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Re: I suspected as much.
But the chronology still doesn't make sense, as reported: the receptionist said they had tried to call me Tuesday afternoon, the X-ray was Wednesday, and at the time I spoke to her this morning, she said they hadn't received the X-ray results.
A plausible revised timeline is that they called my old number Wednesday afternoon, because they had the results, and she told me they hadn't gotten them because she's not supposed to give out bad news over the telephone. (If so, I spent $15 and went out in the cold with pneumonia because of that policy, and/or because he needed to listen to my lungs again.)
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Soup, being gentle with yourself...
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Get well bloody soon (please).
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Get well soon wishes heartily seconded.
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Redbird, take care of yourself and get well.
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Rest.
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Tea, lots of tea. And naps.
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Hmmm - with you and Amanda layed up, maybe we should be warning
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Glad that, medical snafus notwithstanding, they've figured out what's wrong. But no fun at all!
Rest, and be better soon!
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Get well soon.
B
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For a couple of years running, around this time of year or a month or so earlier, I'd have an episode of a cold or other bug that persisted. At least one time it was bad enough that folks thought I had "walking pneumonia", although it turned out to be something else.
They still brought out the heavy-hitting antibiotics and an inhaler, though.
(Biaxin and albuterol ... lovely stuff.)
Isn't this season lovely?
Soup, tea ... and antibiotics ... take care of yourself.
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Pamela
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I think Vicki knows how.
Pamela
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-J
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It's not that uncommon an illness. Perhaps some people are confusing it with TB?
Anyway, best wishes.
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Yuck.
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Kick those beasties out of your lungs!
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If you find sleeping actually propped difficult, three good pillows usually helps.
The last time I had pneumonia, I found breathing steam helped a lot -- pour water from a kettle into a bowl, put a towel over both the bowl and you, breathe. Since you have a stove kettle, you can get somewhat that effect by boiling it for longer than you normally would and just getting the air generally warm and moist. That's what my grandmother used to do when I'd get pneumonia when I was a child. (But we also didn't have any actual heating, by modern standards: coal fires.)
Tea. Soup. Rest. Quiet books. Bed rest. (If you spend most of the day in bed, having a bath or even a shower and changing clothes before going to bed to sleep is a useful trick.)
I'm thinking positive thoughts in your direction. I wish I could get you some elderflower and lemon tea, but not even FedEx would get it to you in a sensible time frame.