Unwellness update

[mrsbrown]

I still have a fever and I just rang Nurse on Call to check out how worried I should be about the chest pain when I cough and the continual pain between my shoulderblades.

I'm off to the doctor in the morning and taking anti-inflammatories for the pain and fever.

Since then I also took a look at the government health website and I think I have either pneumonia or pluerisy and pluerisy is more likely. I love internet health diagnoses. :)

On the good side, I'm not blue around the lips and I'm possible feeling marginally better now the nurofen's kicked in, but the sweaty face is a bit weird.

I guess I won't be at work for a few days.

Goodnight.

Comments

[hometime.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you'd better look after yourself. Or get somebody else to do the looking after you, 'cause that sounds bad.

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

Decades of study of really crap literature for girls from the 1890s to the 1950s assures me that if you have either of these things you should retire to your bed, put a kettle in your room to create lots of steam, and have everyone wait on you hand and foot and otherwise tiptoe around trying not to disturb you while they wonder if you will die. Bar the last bit, it sounds good to me, one of those things it's very sad that universal health insurance and antibiotics took out of our culture, even if the swap was a good one big-picture wise.

On the other hand, the old wives' tales in my family suggest that you have pneumonia, as this is, family wisdom states, what people get when they go too long doing too much without looking after themselves. Grandma had it in, I guess, the 1940s, because if it had been later there would have been antibiotics and she wouldn't have Nearly Died.

So, rest up and get well soon. And, er, don't skip the doctor's and make sure you fucking take the antibiotics, none of the usual "oh, I'll just see if it gets better first" stuff that is the right response for a cold. Those things used to kill people. And by people I mean significant proportions of the population.

*hugs*

[splodgenoodles.livejournal.com]

Yeah don't fuck around. Go see the doctor and do what they tell you.

And if you feel worse during the night, go to casualty. And if mrbassman notices you getting unresponsive, he should call an ambulance, okay?

(Oh and if they say it's contagious, can you please text 10B with the details? We should probably know...:-/ )

[auntyyolly.livejournal.com]

Listen to your friends above! they are smart!

[celsa.livejournal.com]

Pleurisy is painful, but I prefer it to pneumonia. If you have to have one or the other, I hope it's the former. On the other hand, you might have cracked a rib or two from coughing really hard. (she said far too cheerfully)

I suggest you resign yourself to taking a while to recover.

Personally, there's a period after I beat the 'flu where I start to feel good again and imagine I can go about my business - until I take a few steps and am surprised to find I have to hang on to furniture so I don't fall over. I've decided it's more efficient to recover once, and properly, than to rise heroically from my sick bed only to collapse back into it.

Good luck with the doc. I hope they give you the good drugs.

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

What they said. Rest up, get well soon.

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, get well soon. That sounds really sucky.

[astemudfoot.livejournal.com]

Take care. Do wot all those smart, loving people said.

My Mum cracked a rib with this cold. Could be wot Celsa said.

[montjoye.livejournal.com]

OMG look after yourself. That sounds truly horrid. LOTS of get well thoughts in your direction!

[doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

More get well thoughts *offers cup of hot lemon* Let me know if you need practical help, like collecting stuff for Tuesday so mrbassman can stay and look after you or whatever.