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.

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[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*