Johnny Pneumonic

Apr 24, 2009 07:04

So, guess what I managed to catch! If you were to say "pneumonia", I would be like, "WTF?" And yet you would still be right.

I went in to get checked for what seemed to be a rather nasty case of bronchitis. After hearing my description of the symptoms and doing some of the other checks his notion was "it's been getting steadily worse for long enough that it would appear to be a bacterial infection and it's time for antibiotics". Then he got to the stethoscope part and his notion changed slightly to "I'm hearing wheezing in only certain parts of your lungs, so you're getting a chest X-ray to see if you have walking pneumonia. Also, it would appear to be a bacterial infection and it's time for antibiotics."

Between the time I left radiology and the time I got to work, I got a call confirming more or less the same: It is in fact pneumonia but the Z-Pak I'd just been prescribed should knock it out handily.

Last night's winner of the relief game, however, was the Guaifenesin + Codeine cough syrup. The past couple of days had been a torturous ordeal of repeated attempts to nap met only with paranoid half-dreams of my least favorite sort-trying to solve logic problems concocted outside the context of logic, like trying to figure out which of the itches on my body corresponds to the desired volume on my radio. This morning I woke up readily at a time that would be appropriate for preparing for work were I actually going today.

A little while after I got up I decided that it would be funny to hear "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" with a cheesy text-to-speech voice replacing the final word with something else. For example, "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that unemployment."

That is all. Yet.
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