Last night, quick and dirty
Couldn't breathe, and this was a new kind of can't-breathe, the kind where even when I was breathing as deep as I could I still felt like I wasn't getting enough air. So finally around 12:30AM I broke down and called my friend C, who came over and watched the kids (Frolic wasn't home last night, he was off at a gig), and I headed off to a hospital.
They did all sorts of procedures at the hospital but the important one is that they gave me another chest xray, and this one showed some kind of "infiltration" (their word) in my lungs. They think pneumonia, although they're a little baffled because I don't have any of the other signs like persistent cough, fever, etc. But yeah, it sounds like there Really And Actually Is Something Quite Wrong, so I don't feel like an overreacting asshat for having gone to the hospital. Before I left they gave me antibiotics to knock out whatever has settled in my lungs, and a Ventolin inhaler for if I start feeling really short of breath again. So in the morning I'll start taking the antibiotics and hopefully that'll sort this shit out.
Man. I'm so fuckin' tired. It's gonna be a rough day. I'll post later about the dude next to me in the emergency room, and the awesome discussion I overheard on the bus on the way to the hospital. But for now, I need whatever sleep I can get.
Also, I want to add that I am so grateful to have the kind of friend who will come over at 12:30 AM to watch my kids while I go to the hospital. I have no idea sometimes how I get as lucky as I do with the amazing people who are my friends. <3
They did all sorts of procedures at the hospital but the important one is that they gave me another chest xray, and this one showed some kind of "infiltration" (their word) in my lungs. They think pneumonia, although they're a little baffled because I don't have any of the other signs like persistent cough, fever, etc. But yeah, it sounds like there Really And Actually Is Something Quite Wrong, so I don't feel like an overreacting asshat for having gone to the hospital. Before I left they gave me antibiotics to knock out whatever has settled in my lungs, and a Ventolin inhaler for if I start feeling really short of breath again. So in the morning I'll start taking the antibiotics and hopefully that'll sort this shit out.
Man. I'm so fuckin' tired. It's gonna be a rough day. I'll post later about the dude next to me in the emergency room, and the awesome discussion I overheard on the bus on the way to the hospital. But for now, I need whatever sleep I can get.
Also, I want to add that I am so grateful to have the kind of friend who will come over at 12:30 AM to watch my kids while I go to the hospital. I have no idea sometimes how I get as lucky as I do with the amazing people who are my friends. <3