I did not get my flu shot this year. Why? Because when they were giving them out, I had bronchitis. They won’t give you the shot if you’re sick, you see. So here I am, post-giant-q-tip-up-my-nose (rapid flu test) propped full of prednisone and tamiflu and hydrocodone cough syrup (which I didn’t want but now [...]
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I was supposed to help my good friend Laura move on Saturday, but in the wee hours of the morning I woke up coughing up all kinds of disgusting things. A quick trip to the Saturday clinic revealed bronchitis (I swear I’m going to be the youngest person diagnosed with COPD one of [...] Yesterday, approximately 5am, I gave up trying to use my home nebulizer and drove myself to the hospital. My lungs were so full of fluid, and I had been struggling to breathe for so long, that my lips were blue from hypoxemia by the time I arrived. Asthma is no joke – and I [...] 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 [...] |
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