Yup, I'm sick. Sinus/upper respiratory infection.

Antibiotics: Zithro 5-day pack
Steroid: Methylprednisone week pack

With luck it'll clear out the ick super-fast.

Have also been instructed to visit Urologist (re Kidney Stone) this month, and follow up with Pulmonary doc in next couple of weeks.

Hooray.

My workmates are threatening to evict me due to plague. And I'm frankly extremely tired of it myself ( Read more... )

So despite spending Friday and Sunday in bed (or the couch equivalent), it's been an eventful week...

( ho ho ho )

Argh. Spent yesterday really and truly sick. Had a fever, and alternated between cold and hot sweats -- my sheets were disgusting. In fact I'm really pissed because my favorite sheets (moss green) are now missing the fitted sheet -- which my tossing and turning and sweating seem to have worn through. (Seriously, there were five big rips there ( Read more... )

I can feel the tell-tale signs of being actually, truly, sick ( Read more... )

After several days of incarceration, Mom has been sent packing from GBMC and is currently at home. She's still moving slowly and getting tired quickly, but (theoretically) between the oxygen and physical therapy she'll be back to her usual ornery self in a week or two.

Thanks to all the well-wishers -- she does read my journal and saw your

So for those who don't know (because Mom didn't want me to say anything), my mother went into surgery this morning to remove a mass in her lung ( Read more... )

Apparently it's not enough to be a sinusy bastard, or fatter than I prefer, I'm also going to be the inhaler kid ( Read more... )

After a night of difficult sleeping, a morning spent unable to get anything useful done because I couldn't actually make my home computer connect to the office FTP site (probably a firewall issue), and a lingering headache, I went to the doctor's office ( Read more... )

Last night I went to bed a little early, then woke up at about 2:30 with a screaming, evil migraine. I managed to reach the loo in time to barf up my dinner and blow my nose a bunch. Took a bunch of pills and crawled back to bed ( Read more... )