medical update

[redbird]

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.

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Re: I suspected as much.

[redbird]

I may try sleeping propped up.

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.)