7:17pm May 19, 2012

I’m feeling better overall.

Although my phlegm color is getting worse. My DPA says I can probably wait till my doctor appointment on Monday or Tuesday but that they should almost definitely put me on antibiotics.

(To be clear: Antibiotics don’t work on colds. I need them because I appear to be getting a lung infection and that’s bad and hard to fight off if you have bronchiectasis.)

I have two kinds of headache right now. Bad ones. (Cough headache and migraine.) But those are still better than last night, when I had a sinus headache as well as the rest and all three of them terrible. Like I had to quit typing halfway through a video chat because between the headaches and cold my energy level was not there at all.

Oh and the bathroom stuff resolved too. That was the turning point in feeling much better, that and the equivalent in my sinuses (passing something disgusting that had been clogging them), which happened at the same time. I still feel pretty lousy but it’s nothing like yesterday. (When I can say I’m feeling great when I have two bad headaches it means something.)

Talking to two friends in a row who get worried when I get sick has been the final straw in deciding I’m not doing conferences anymore except under exceptional circumstances that I can’t really foresee. Even when I don’t get sick I run myself down too much even at the best of times. And doctors have implicated the running myself down in terms of what infections I get after. So no more of this.

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