I'm sick. Again.
I'm kind of pissed because it could have been avoided. A friend of a friend decided to bring along her son for an extended visit. He has been sick for weeks and is on a second run of antibiotics. [which don't seem to be working either].
biggest issue here: She was told to call the doctor and ask whether he could still be contagious even though he was on the ABX. She didn't, and didn't think about the consequences of getting other people sick.
I'm not even sure what it is, and the hospital gave me a broad spectrum antibiotic- in theory I should be feeling a little better. The reality is that my breathing is getting worse. The thing about exposing people with crappy immune systems to someone who has been sick for a long time is... YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO DO IT.
Also- it seems to be hitting me and my friend who is also immunocompromised the hardest. My boyfriend and her husband got a bit sick, but it was mostly like they were fighting off a mild cold. Because, for them, that's what it is.
For me and my friend this is what it is:
Throat that is LITERALLY so sore that I do a whole body wince/cringe at times just from swallowing. This is making me not want to swallow which leads to all sorts of issues. So i got a topical gargle... thing from the pharmacy to help number my throat. But it's not just my throat that is like, torn asunder. It's lik every mucous membrane tract, everything, that is somehow attached to my throat.
I feel like my damn SINUSES are on fire... and then covered with gunk.
My ears hurt, but aren't infected- I just have a sinus infection so bad it's putting a massive amount of pressure on my ears. So when i blow my nose, it bleeds and everything above my collar bone burns and feels like stabbing.
I can't breathe very well. Sometimes this is just coughing until you may be surprised you actually have to lungs left. Sometimes it is all that plus not being able to get a breath in between the coughs because throat is so screwed up it ALSO makes you cough on top of lung issues.
Also, I wake up literally not able to breathe. Sometimes I breathe in and start to freaking choke on whatever gunk is in whatever area of my head- like I get to the beginning stages of drowning in my own snot, basically.
And everything hurts- which is the usual, only the meds aren't working so well for that and it's the hurt on top of drowning in throat-on-fire snot. So there's that...
DUDE THIS IS AWESOME.
So... I've been on this broad spectrum ABX for three days and if anything I feel worse. I'm going home to Boston from another state today [on a train, THANK GOD- don't have to deal with air pressure] and won't get off the train until 1030 or 11pm. And, obviously, I need to go back to the doctor.
I'm more than a little pissed off because I was starting to [again] make some gains and this is setting me back. ...it's going to for a while.
Will brag about beach and vacation when I feel a bit better. Just, you know, why I may possibly not be around a super lot or at least not contribute much for a bit.
I'm kind of pissed because it could have been avoided. A friend of a friend decided to bring along her son for an extended visit. He has been sick for weeks and is on a second run of antibiotics. [which don't seem to be working either].
biggest issue here: She was told to call the doctor and ask whether he could still be contagious even though he was on the ABX. She didn't, and didn't think about the consequences of getting other people sick.
I'm not even sure what it is, and the hospital gave me a broad spectrum antibiotic- in theory I should be feeling a little better. The reality is that my breathing is getting worse. The thing about exposing people with crappy immune systems to someone who has been sick for a long time is... YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO DO IT.
Also- it seems to be hitting me and my friend who is also immunocompromised the hardest. My boyfriend and her husband got a bit sick, but it was mostly like they were fighting off a mild cold. Because, for them, that's what it is.
For me and my friend this is what it is:
Throat that is LITERALLY so sore that I do a whole body wince/cringe at times just from swallowing. This is making me not want to swallow which leads to all sorts of issues. So i got a topical gargle... thing from the pharmacy to help number my throat. But it's not just my throat that is like, torn asunder. It's lik every mucous membrane tract, everything, that is somehow attached to my throat.
I feel like my damn SINUSES are on fire... and then covered with gunk.
My ears hurt, but aren't infected- I just have a sinus infection so bad it's putting a massive amount of pressure on my ears. So when i blow my nose, it bleeds and everything above my collar bone burns and feels like stabbing.
I can't breathe very well. Sometimes this is just coughing until you may be surprised you actually have to lungs left. Sometimes it is all that plus not being able to get a breath in between the coughs because throat is so screwed up it ALSO makes you cough on top of lung issues.
Also, I wake up literally not able to breathe. Sometimes I breathe in and start to freaking choke on whatever gunk is in whatever area of my head- like I get to the beginning stages of drowning in my own snot, basically.
And everything hurts- which is the usual, only the meds aren't working so well for that and it's the hurt on top of drowning in throat-on-fire snot. So there's that...
DUDE THIS IS AWESOME.
So... I've been on this broad spectrum ABX for three days and if anything I feel worse. I'm going home to Boston from another state today [on a train, THANK GOD- don't have to deal with air pressure] and won't get off the train until 1030 or 11pm. And, obviously, I need to go back to the doctor.
I'm more than a little pissed off because I was starting to [again] make some gains and this is setting me back. ...it's going to for a while.
Will brag about beach and vacation when I feel a bit better. Just, you know, why I may possibly not be around a super lot or at least not contribute much for a bit.
