Update update.
May. 10th, 2003 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaIt's "just" my allergies. The unusually spectacular pollen season we've been having has irritated my bronchioles (I think) and swelled them up, and that's why the cough and the trouble breathing. They did a chest X-ray to make sure I didn't have pneumonia, and I didn't. Then they gave me an albuterol treatment, which left me wobbly-kneed but breathing better, and sent me home with a prescription for something called "tesselon perles" for my cough and instructions to drink plenty of fluids and see my primary care doctor.
The drive to the hospital and walk in from the waiting room left me wheezing and coughing badly enough that I jumped the whole line to get seen, which isn't as impressive as it sounds given that it was a suburban community hospital, but did tend to add to scaredness. I hit a really bad feedback loop, where my coughing and wheezing made me scared and then being scared made it harder to breathe. But I think everything should be okay now.
The drive to the hospital and walk in from the waiting room left me wheezing and coughing badly enough that I jumped the whole line to get seen, which isn't as impressive as it sounds given that it was a suburban community hospital, but did tend to add to scaredness. I hit a really bad feedback loop, where my coughing and wheezing made me scared and then being scared made it harder to breathe. But I think everything should be okay now.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2003-05-11 01:46 pm (UTC)(Yeah, I just got back from Virginia.)
Re:
Date: 2003-05-11 02:15 pm (UTC)Yeah, aren't you just as glad that you missed all the excitement? I hope you had a good time at the wedding.
I hope you're feeling mostly OK now.
Shortness of breath is back, although the medicine is controlling the cough well enough that the shortness of breath isn't severe. I'm going to try to get in to see my doctor first thing tomorrow morning. I'm pretty sure the hospital should've given me an inhaler to take home.
no subject
Date: 2003-05-11 03:34 pm (UTC)I hope your doctor gives you an inhaler tomorrow. I was thinking that since your doctor's call-in service was willing to write you a prescription for one earlier, you might call and ask for one now. Would that work?
Re:
Date: 2003-05-11 03:38 pm (UTC)