To review the last couple of weeks. I was in reasonably good shape other than tired and coughing when I flew home after my trans-Atlantic on the Star Seeker. That was on the 13th. By the following weekend I was dragging.
I finally gave up on the 22nd and went in to be seen. Coughing up green crap and running a fever isn’t exactly the way I wanted to spend the rest of the month. Much less be around the rest of the family. And, of course to top it off, my hearing was on the fritz again.
I have figured out how to check it – write a note on my phone complete with name and check in info and hand it over to the clerk. No problem, she saw me a few months ago and had it figured out. The nurse & doc? not so much – standing in a door and yelling my name? The guy sitting next to me poked me and pointed. He figured out they were looking for me since I was the only woman in the waiting area.
Upshot of it all – pneumonia – even x-ray confirmed. Continue the fluids, take antibiotics, cough some more…. It has taken till about today till I have felt like a human being again. Not quite 10 full days. We will not review the coughing all night portion of life. Or, forcing fluids all day which results in heading to the loo in the middle of the night as well.
Sometimes you just can’t win.
This is the first day I have felt almost human. Skipped going to the Cal Women’s Basketball game both because I hate sitting masked in public coughing and that I considered that there was close to zero chance the team was going to be able to overcome (Louisville which is undefeated this season). I finally managed to actually get part of a book read, some stitching done and might even tackle some laundry tomorrow…..
So anyway – that is why there have been the occasional updates here and there on the blog but I haven’t had the energy to send anything out…
