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10:50am December 25, 2013
Okay I spoke way too soon about feeling good.  I already feel inflamed and like I’m producing phlegm that I can’t cough out, which is like… ready-for-infection city.  My staff is calling in trying to get that standing order for the antibiotic script going.  And I feel like hell.  Like, lungs hurt, short of breath, feel like they’re encased in something, may have to go to the ER if this gets worse soon, kind of hell. So I’m back on oxygen, even though I don’t use it much these days.  And I just took a huge amount of inhaler puffs, and started my 7% saline nebs early.  So I’m feeling a little better. And… yay antibiotic script is getting called in!  I hate antibiotics so my joy about this shows I’m feeling like shit and worried about infection.  :-/ I’m just glad the pulmonology department had someone on call, because I really didn’t want to have to go to the ER today.  I still might have to, depending on how I feel, but I hate it there and I hate it even more when I feel sick.  (I’m always like, “I’m sick, so I want to stay home and rest, not go to the ER.”  And that makes no sense but it always feels like that – the only times I have the energy to go to the ER, I don’t actually need to be there.) I’ll keep people updated.  I hate this.  I always knew this whole mess wasn’t over, but I kind of convinced myself it would be. Anne, if you see me feeling any way where I need to go to the ER, please let me know, just in case I miss it. Now crossing my fingers that I won’t actually get pneumonia.

Okay I spoke way too soon about feeling good.  I already feel inflamed and like I’m producing phlegm that I can’t cough out, which is like… ready-for-infection city.  My staff is calling in trying to get that standing order for the antibiotic script going.  And I feel like hell.  Like, lungs hurt, short of breath, feel like they’re encased in something, may have to go to the ER if this gets worse soon, kind of hell.

So I’m back on oxygen, even though I don’t use it much these days.  And I just took a huge amount of inhaler puffs, and started my 7% saline nebs early.  So I’m feeling a little better.

And… yay antibiotic script is getting called in!  I hate antibiotics so my joy about this shows I’m feeling like shit and worried about infection.  :-/

I’m just glad the pulmonology department had someone on call, because I really didn’t want to have to go to the ER today.  I still might have to, depending on how I feel, but I hate it there and I hate it even more when I feel sick.  (I’m always like, “I’m sick, so I want to stay home and rest, not go to the ER.”  And that makes no sense but it always feels like that – the only times I have the energy to go to the ER, I don’t actually need to be there.)

I’ll keep people updated.  I hate this.  I always knew this whole mess wasn’t over, but I kind of convinced myself it would be.

Anne, if you see me feeling any way where I need to go to the ER, please let me know, just in case I miss it.

Now crossing my fingers that I won’t actually get pneumonia.

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