I spent most of my vacation last week trying to ignore the fact that I was, indeed, quite sick. I finally got my aunt to call in a scrip for me – she’s a doctor, and decided I had a sinus infection (I thought so too, though I mentioned I thought it was bronchitis seeing as I was coughing quite often). Turns out I’m really not feeling better after five days on antibiotics, so today after repeated coughing (and being told by the nurse in my friend’s dr’s office after driving her for a biopsy this morning, I should go to the doc as my cough sounded “very suspicious”).
I ended up at Manchester Memorial getting a chest x-ray. Long story short, I have pneumonia, and am really worried that I won’t be well enough to work my shifts at the kids hut at SolarFest this weekend (I’m on heavy-duty antibiotics, and am not contagious any more). I also won’t be able to enjoy any hiking or swimming or really, any physical activity, nor will I be able to be around any kind of second-hand smoke without puking up a lung.
On the bright side, I took 10 minutes for every hour I was awake today to do some house cleaning, laundry, and other fun chores I could do around the house – like finally find a new vet for the kitties closer to East Hartford since Mischief seems to still have the upper respitory infection I took him to the old vet two seperate times now. I also managed to clear most of the floor in the computer room – which is the last bastion of boxes that are still being sorted after my big move. Somehow there were two bags worth of trash hiding in various places around the house, and I washed the litter boxes in the shower, refilled the bird feeder, and watered the little garden on my balcony. This all in between massive, painful coughing fits. Which are slowly getting better, so I’m hoping those horse pill antibiotics (and 40mg of prednisone daily for my asthma-exacerbated wheeze) are kicking in and I won’t have to be lame and cancel on this weekend’s trip – Dar Williams is playing SolarFest, and I can’t wait to see her live again!