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outsdrit's been two weeks, I keep expecting to get over this head & chest cold. The past few days, in the morning I've been coughing up chunks. This morning, I manged to actually cough some up and out of my throat, and discovered they were blood clots.
Ewww.
I am not the kind of person that rushes to the doctor for antibiotics at the first sign of runny nose- I'm one of the few remaining people in the world that gets the sniffles instead of a "sinus infection" a sore throat instead of a "strep infection" and a winter cough instead of "bronchitis". I work with someone who is like that, however, and I'm pretty sure that she and her family are totally responsible for all anti-biotic resistant super bugs there are in the world right now.
But still... blood clots... I debated it all day in my head, and figured enough as enough, so off I went to the doctor. My GP is freakin' awesome. He was an engineer until his late 30s, when he decided he wanted to become a doctor. to help people. And he loves his job. And his handwriting is exquisite.
Turns out that I _DO_ have bronchitis, and he called it something like "localized" or "grouped" or something that is slipping my mind, meaning tht all the goo and gunk and infection has settled into te deep parts of my lungs and festered. I'm on antibiotics now (SMP/DMZ, whatever that is) and Cleartuss DH (Prescription Robotussin, i think) for the cough (Incidentally, over the counter medicine has a lot of sugar and flavors to make them yummy and syrupy and palatable that they leave out of the prescription medicine!), and if I'm not cleared up and better in ten days, I go in for chest x-rys.
And he agreed with me that my surgeon was a dick and the anesthesiologist was a jerk, however, he let me know that the Anesthesiologist was some high-and-mighty doctor that they brought in in hopes of hiring for the hospital ... and they are NOT going to hire. No one likes him.
And there is some more followup to the surgery story that I just haven't managed to put into words yet, but i will soon.
some fun was had tonight- I helped Tony assemble a water-cooling system for his computer, the first that any of us have done. Although it did take me 2 hours to solve a simple problem of removing air out of the circulatory fluid system when the answer was right there in my face the whole time. I did finally get the answer, but I was really embarrassed tht it took me so long.
I'm working on my secondary computer right now, which has a water-resistant rubber keyboard that looks cool and is hard as hell to type on., hence the numerous typos in this post. But I did put seven hard drives in the computer. :D
Now to get them all working at once...
Ewww.
I am not the kind of person that rushes to the doctor for antibiotics at the first sign of runny nose- I'm one of the few remaining people in the world that gets the sniffles instead of a "sinus infection" a sore throat instead of a "strep infection" and a winter cough instead of "bronchitis". I work with someone who is like that, however, and I'm pretty sure that she and her family are totally responsible for all anti-biotic resistant super bugs there are in the world right now.
But still... blood clots... I debated it all day in my head, and figured enough as enough, so off I went to the doctor. My GP is freakin' awesome. He was an engineer until his late 30s, when he decided he wanted to become a doctor. to help people. And he loves his job. And his handwriting is exquisite.
Turns out that I _DO_ have bronchitis, and he called it something like "localized" or "grouped" or something that is slipping my mind, meaning tht all the goo and gunk and infection has settled into te deep parts of my lungs and festered. I'm on antibiotics now (SMP/DMZ, whatever that is) and Cleartuss DH (Prescription Robotussin, i think) for the cough (Incidentally, over the counter medicine has a lot of sugar and flavors to make them yummy and syrupy and palatable that they leave out of the prescription medicine!), and if I'm not cleared up and better in ten days, I go in for chest x-rys.
And he agreed with me that my surgeon was a dick and the anesthesiologist was a jerk, however, he let me know that the Anesthesiologist was some high-and-mighty doctor that they brought in in hopes of hiring for the hospital ... and they are NOT going to hire. No one likes him.
And there is some more followup to the surgery story that I just haven't managed to put into words yet, but i will soon.
some fun was had tonight- I helped Tony assemble a water-cooling system for his computer, the first that any of us have done. Although it did take me 2 hours to solve a simple problem of removing air out of the circulatory fluid system when the answer was right there in my face the whole time. I did finally get the answer, but I was really embarrassed tht it took me so long.
I'm working on my secondary computer right now, which has a water-resistant rubber keyboard that looks cool and is hard as hell to type on., hence the numerous typos in this post. But I did put seven hard drives in the computer. :D
Now to get them all working at once...
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Re: icky
Date: 2008-02-08 03:01 am (UTC)