My lungs, ftw.

[devilgrrl]

Great.

So the little cold I thought I had over the week-end? Had big aspirations. I started coughing more and more today and by the end of work, I could hardly breathe and was running a temp of 101*. I took some tylenol and figured I'd suck it up and take half a drawing class.

During dinner, I went from feeling "Eugh" to "Holy monkies, I am going to die in the next 15 minutes." I went up to art class and told the professor this and he pretty much said to go and not darken his doorstep again until I am not feverish.

Tyhpoid Mary, table for one?

I went from there to Health Services. I might as well take advantage of it, right? I went in, talked with the nurse for a couple minutes, she listened to my lungs, and gave me a choice: go to the ER or go to the walk-in clinic in Smithfield, but I needed to go somewhere tonight.

We chose Smithfield. They were just a copay.

I got to blow in the little breath thingy. I blew between 250 and 280 three times and it seems that is not so good. So I got a nebulizer treatment, a urine test (not pregnant/no UTI), and a chest xray (still have lungs/no TB). I came out with three scripts and I'm off work till at least Thursday night. Woot.

So tomorrow, I will be watching telly, cracked out on cough syrup, and doing some painting, I think. Sadly, this will be a nice chance to catch up on homework.

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[devilgrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the cough syrup does that well enough. I took a half a teaspoon this morning and an hour later I was OUT. It makes NyQuil look like sugar water.