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.

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[embermwe.livejournal.com]

Pertussis actually goes around every 3-5 years or so. It is also nicknamed the 100 days cough. THis according to the RNP that did my physical for me recently, and told me that they have recently put the P back in the DPT shot after having reduced it to only the T a bunch of years ago. She told me in no uncertain terms that I should go get the booster and save myself alot of sick-time and sleep loss.

Feel better SOON!

[kumir-k9.livejournal.com]

That's good stuff to know. Thanks.