Did he say Whooping Cough?

[kumir_k9]

Actually, 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.

Comments

[branoven.livejournal.com]

Yea, a bunch of those vaccines are only cause a temporary immunity. It lasts long enough to get kids through the vulnerable stages, but by late adolescence the immunity is wearing off or already gone. They noticed a sharp upswing in adult cases of whooping cough, in 2004 or so, and recently started coming up with plans to begin vaccinating adults again, more to protect newborn populations that are at risk before their first scheduled DPT vaccine at 2 months or so.

Ok, I'll stop lecturing now. Fell better soon, and I third and fourth the cough medicine thing.

~Patrick

[keyla87.livejournal.com]

Yep, 2004 is right about when I had it, I remember my Mom, an RN who was working at a local hosptal, said that was the big illnees currently going around.