When you stop writing posts, and then try to start again, it feels like trying to start off a drag race with your tires melted to the tarmac.

Can you tell I've been watching a lot of Top Gear (British car show) lately? messypeaches is the one who got me into watching it, and much as I don't need another thing to Tivo, I'm glad of it. Top Gear is brain candy ( Read more... )

• Still pretty damn sick
  
• Still junky as all hell in the lungs and sinuses
  
• Talked to the doctor this morning, will stay on prednisone through Friday, re-evaluate then
  
• Will stay on both antibiotics, too
  
• Doing my nebs and sinus rinses and so forth every few hours
  
• It's exhausting not being able to breathe
  
• Got a cough suppressant for night time so I can ( Read more... )

I'm gonna start out by saying this isn't actually aimed at anyone online here. Y'all have been helpful, supportive, and generally awesome in response to my tales of sickness and respiratory crisis.

But be forewarned, this is a rant. A big, informative, and I hope, wryly humorous rant. ( A rant about unsolicited medical advice. )

Once there was a little ratty named Nezuko, who had asthma... She got to spend several long hours Saturday night at Stanford Hospital. Yay!

Very special thanks and love to amethyst73 and her Huz, who took me to the ER tonight. I got several nebulizer treatments, IV fluids, and some prednisone to go with my antibiotics. Actually they wanted to keep me ( Read more... )