Officially Sick

[azurelunatic]

Went to urgent care this morning for myself. Some peering in the ears and stethescoping later, with a bonus chest x-ray (my first), and I don't have pneumonia, but I do have a sinus infection. So I have some industrial-strength decongestants, with bonus anti-mucous in there, some antibiotics, and some cough syrup with bonus knockout properties.

So.

I think I'll go to bed now, because I have to be at work this evening for my zomg new position!

Comments

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

What is this new position?

[azurelunatic]

Off the phones, on the online tech support forum.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Lucky you.

[azurelunatic]

Not 100% off the phones; we still will jump in when the queue gets high, and there are some times that some situation is on enough of the bad crack that it needs a phonecall. But. Yes. Mostly off the phones.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah. Good thing your customers won't be seeing or hearing you, then.

[azurelunatic]

Yes. I'm hoarse, and have been cross the whole weekend, quite unlike my normal dulcet phone voice.

[karlita.livejournal.com]

wow - it must be going around - I've got a milder case of it that I caught from warrior_priest.

And I don't have ins.

Fortunately, however, I had a flu shot in the Fall, and I had a 5 year pneumonia shot a couple of years ago.

Feel better soon! Then come get your FREE massage-y!

[azurelunatic]

I will let you know when I'm feeling better! What times are good for you? I am likely to be around in the evenings now, almost any night except Wednesday.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

:( I hope you feel better soon! I'm glad it's not pneumonia.

[azurelunatic]

I'm feeling a whole lot better even right now, just by getting some solid sleep.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Dude. You've *never* had a chest x-ray? In 20-something years, many of those in *Alaska*?? Sheesh.

Of course, I'm the freak that had pneumonia and bronchitis multiple times every winter from the time she was 6 or 7. I could *not* tell you how many chest x-rays I've had. If I ever get lung cancer, it will be from the number of chest x-rays, not because of my parents or significant others smoking.

These days, I know exactly when I go from bronchitis to pneumonia. Can tell the doctors when I have as small as a dime-sized patch of pneumonia. Can freak them out with this knowledge. It's just experience. If lying down makes me cough, and sitting up relieves it? I have pneumonia. If position has no bearing on the amount of coughing (or is relieved by lying down, which is rare) then I just have bronchitis. So now I don't need diagnostic x-rays anymore - I only get them when I *have* pneumonia (because of course the doctors have to know it before they'll treat it; I haven't had the same doctor for years and years like I did as a kid.)

[azurelunatic]

Never, ever. Though I also had the multiple-bronchitis-per-year thing, which occasionally wound up as pneumonia.

This time, I knew my lungs were just fine, because I can tell when my lungs are in bad shape from breathing. And while there's some wheezing, it's 99% stuff in my nose and throat. The Mucinex is a miracle drug, because on Wednesday, yeah, it was in my lungs, and it was in my lungs solidly.