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« on: November 26, 2004, 01:04:32 PM »
So, I don't really expect this to generate a lot of conversation, but I just wanted to rant.
I've been sick for three weeks. It started as a stomach flu type thing, with a lot of vomiting and a high fever. That lasted about five days, and then the fever broke, and I got feeling better -- a slight cough developed, but nothing serious.
And then the cough got worse and worse, to the point where breathing became a problem, and I would cough uncontrollably until I vomited. (I'm sure you all want to know this.) Also: I can't walk thirty feet without being completely winded -- whereupon the coughing starts up again.
So I went to the doctor, and he said it was probably a viral infection, which means that there's really nothing he could do for me. He gave me a cough medicine with codeine to help me sleep (which works, kind of).
And then I started getting sharp chest pains. And it got worse and worse to the point where I can hardly stand up. The doctor has diagnosed this as pleurisy, which is an inflammation in the lining between the ribs and the lungs. And it hurts like fricking heck. (As a matter of fact, yesterday, trying to get the house ready for Thanksgiving, I was trying to move the kitchen table. It was the first time in my nearly five-year marraige my wife has ever heard me swear. I can't even tell you how much this thing hurts.)
Anyway, I'm at work today, because this thing has been going on for three weeks, and I only have a very limited number of sick days. I took Wednesday off and Thanksgiving, of course, hoping that I would be all rested up and feeling good, but this just keeps hanging on. I'm looking forward to the weekend, and doing nothing.
Anyway, there's my rant. It's a good thing I have a lot of pumpkin pie around the house, or this would be unbearable.