Plague Household

[locus_ofcontro]

I am officially a member of the plague household. I just got back from the local walk-in clinic.
Diagnosis - Katina has a case of the flu, likely to last the week, though she may be good enough to go to daycare on Monday. She has the start of an ear infection, but I'm going to wait to see if it starts to clear on it's own before I get her the medications.
- Me, I may have strep throat. Swab taken and sent, prescription in my purse. And no comment whatsoever about the ongoing cough that's plagued me since the holidays.

Ultimate verdict... On Katina, she'll be fine. On mommy, Mommy needs a doctor. Someone who is tracking medical history and willing to find out why I have a cough that JUST WON"T QUIT, that comes back fiercer and fiercer every 5 or 6 weeks. Each time it comes back, I get weaker. I am quite tired of hacking up green crap every morning for 3 hours until the stuff that's "not in my clear lungs" settles back down to the bottom of them and I can get through my day. Some days, I am sure the only that keeps me mobile is adrenaline and fear. I have to keep this job. I can't afford to get/be sick. So every time this cough comes back, I push my body through it and force it away. It bends to my will for a while, then resurfaces even more visciously. I am so excited to know I will soon have a drug plan again. That and a renewed sense of needing a doctor may get me to the point where I can get healthy again...

God I hope Katina can go to daycare on Monday. I can't afford to stay home with her. I miss having grandparents locally.... With Joe away I don't know what I'll do.... :(

Comments

[flyinglemurs.livejournal.com]

Sorry you are feeling sick. Doctors suck. Sounds like you need another one. Green gack is just not normal. But you knew that. Hmm, well you know last few times I felt that crap-in-lungs feeling, I took some of those fish oil capsules and weird as it sounds it seems to help. Also drinking heaping tons of water, avoiding pop (something about that syrup), and taking mucinex (or whatever over the counter guefinisen thing). Garlic and onions. But if this is on going you just must have something going on. Good luck.

[locus-ofcontrol.livejournal.com]

ya know I was taking those for a bit... and it was helping.
Maybe I will go back to that.... Thanks

Hope you got a storm to cool things off down there...

[carolep.livejournal.com]

HAVE you had a chest x-ray yet? The clinic told ME over and over "Your lungs are CLEAR, we can't hear a THING!" until I told them of the wicked back pain I was suffering... THEN they took the x-ray. Double-pneumonia. It was packed SO tight there was no wheezing or burbling from inside. And yes, I was couging and couging and it hurt so bad...

[locus-ofcontrol.livejournal.com]

HA HA...
That would involve having a doctor who cares.... Nope. I haven't pushed it yet either though.
My dad had walking pneumonia for MONTHS before anyone caught on.
For me, it's the weakness right after I cough, the having to hold myself upright on the wall or something for a minute or two that bugs me...

GRRR

Not to freak you out or anything, but...

[wilde-bee.livejournal.com]

If you do have pneumonia, you shouldn't fool around about it. People still die from it. It should be taken very seriously and you should demand a chest x-ray. It isn't normal for someone to be as sick as often as you have been (even with a germ-infested toddler in the house). Good luck finding a doctor. And I hope you will start feeling well again soon.