pneumonia
sooooo when we got snow about 2 weeks ago, I had spent about a half hour two mornings in a row clearing off my car. by the second morning, my lungs were kind of hurting and from there I developed a cough. last monday the cough kept me from work as it made me physically ill and the rest of the week I was miserable, trying to talk on the phones 8 hours a day while sucking down cough drops and praying that I didn't have a coughing fit that rendered me speechless for more than a minute (as it was hard to explain to a customer mid-choking-cough that you were coughing while muting the customer so they don't hear it and also trying to wheeze "just a second please")...
anyway, I stuck it out at work and lasted the whole week. the cough seemed to die down saturday, it was just a sore throat at that point, although coughing fits still hit me, especially at night. I woke up sunday morning and was physically ill again and spent the rest of the day unable to keep even water down. I developed a pain in my side that was worrying me so when that was still present this morning and hurting enough to make me debate about going to work, I decided it was time to bust out a sick day and go to the doctors.
doctor at first was kind of irking me cause he just wanted to know why I was there at that point, and didn't seem to care about any of my past symptoms. but as soon as he put his stethoscope on to listen to my breathing, he figured out I wasn't just another common cold sufferer. he was listened a couple different times, mostly when I tried to take a deep breath I ended up coughing, and he kept saying I had a lot of fluids in my lungs, and then he was like "well you have pneumonia" and I was like *panic mode*. then he said "yes I know I said pneumonia but there are varying degrees, yours is a mild case" and I'm still going "ohmygod I have pneumonia."
in the end, I was sent home with 2 inhalers, a batch of antibiotics, and an order for robitussin dm (cough syrup). I go back to the doctor's in a month to make sure I'm not going to die from my "mild case" of pneumonia.
anyway, I stuck it out at work and lasted the whole week. the cough seemed to die down saturday, it was just a sore throat at that point, although coughing fits still hit me, especially at night. I woke up sunday morning and was physically ill again and spent the rest of the day unable to keep even water down. I developed a pain in my side that was worrying me so when that was still present this morning and hurting enough to make me debate about going to work, I decided it was time to bust out a sick day and go to the doctors.
doctor at first was kind of irking me cause he just wanted to know why I was there at that point, and didn't seem to care about any of my past symptoms. but as soon as he put his stethoscope on to listen to my breathing, he figured out I wasn't just another common cold sufferer. he was listened a couple different times, mostly when I tried to take a deep breath I ended up coughing, and he kept saying I had a lot of fluids in my lungs, and then he was like "well you have pneumonia" and I was like *panic mode*. then he said "yes I know I said pneumonia but there are varying degrees, yours is a mild case" and I'm still going "ohmygod I have pneumonia."
in the end, I was sent home with 2 inhalers, a batch of antibiotics, and an order for robitussin dm (cough syrup). I go back to the doctor's in a month to make sure I'm not going to die from my "mild case" of pneumonia.