Did he say Whooping Cough?
Nov. 20th, 2009 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kumir_k9Actually, the doctor said Pertussis. When I stared at him blankly and then said, "What the heck is Pertussis?", then he said Whooping Cough. I'm posting this primarily because my "friend" silwayseems to be telling my known world that I have everything from typhoid to syphilis, because I've been getting ribbing from multiple friends about what horrible disease I'm spreading to the world.
(**Hopefully silway knows that I'm only pulling his leg here and that I'm not mad at him for that last statement.) ;-)
So yeah, Whooping Cough. I had been hacking away for over two weeks when I decided to see the doctor. I'm sure most of you in Grum's Company will verify this after the weird mating call going on between hope-ish and I both nights as we hacked back and forth across the cabin.
I'm hoping the doctor has misdiagnosed this and I believe he has. I have exactly one out of about a dozen symptoms, the cough. I have no runny nose, no sneezing, no fever, no vomiting, no body aches, no nothin'. Whooping Cough is highly contagious and yet I have not left one person coughing in my wake, not even my wife who was trapped in a condo with me for one week of that hacking.
But I am taking the antibiotics because it probably won't hurt and if it helps, so much the better and then we will see. So yeah, no typhoid or syphilis or any of the other plethora of horrible diseases you may hear tell of. Though I am getting awfully tired of coughing and tired in general as it disrupts my sleep. Other than that, I'm fine.
silwayseems to be telling my known world that I have everything from typhoid to syphilis, because I've been getting ribbing from multiple friends about what horrible disease I'm spreading to the world. (**Hopefully silway knows that I'm only pulling his leg here and that I'm not mad at him for that last statement.) ;-)
So yeah, Whooping Cough. I had been hacking away for over two weeks when I decided to see the doctor. I'm sure most of you in Grum's Company will verify this after the weird mating call going on between hope-ish and I both nights as we hacked back and forth across the cabin.
I'm hoping the doctor has misdiagnosed this and I believe he has. I have exactly one out of about a dozen symptoms, the cough. I have no runny nose, no sneezing, no fever, no vomiting, no body aches, no nothin'. Whooping Cough is highly contagious and yet I have not left one person coughing in my wake, not even my wife who was trapped in a condo with me for one week of that hacking.
But I am taking the antibiotics because it probably won't hurt and if it helps, so much the better and then we will see. So yeah, no typhoid or syphilis or any of the other plethora of horrible diseases you may hear tell of. Though I am getting awfully tired of coughing and tired in general as it disrupts my sleep. Other than that, I'm fine.
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Date: 2009-11-20 03:43 pm (UTC)I am surprised that your doc didn't give you a scrip for cough medicine as well as the antibiotic, esp. with you being kept up nights... if nothing else, I have had excellent luck with DelSym, which is carried by many drugstores? Good luck, man!
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Date: 2009-11-20 03:47 pm (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2009-11-20 04:06 pm (UTC)It will help you to sleep! I had mine still some when LARP season started again. It sucked, but you will get better, and soon or else....