December 06, 2010
I Hate that Girl Enza...But She Flew Right In
Been laid up in bed pretty much since Friday after work with a worse than average head cold. Today the coughing started. About 7 hours ago I noted that my temperature was 103. About 6 hours ago I noted that the coughing was excruciatingly painful and there was just a touch of blood involved. Given that I was getting weaker, not better and given that I had to be to work at 2AM and, given that my job is at UPS, and the fact that especially around December 5th one really needs a medical justification for not showing up, I got a much needed shower and went out, only to realize that the only place still open was the hospital.
Although I was indeed dragging it's really gauche to be going to the ER for a damned cold.
To my astonishment, I was out in under 90 minutes. I must say that Harborview Medical Center is a really professional outfit and now 3 out of the 3 times I've been there in the last year it's been about as pleasant non-horrific as is possible when one feels like a buffalo chip being used as a Voodoo doll.
There was no Pneumonia on the X-Ray and I was diagnosed with an acute viral infection.
Other than that, my only concern was my second chest X-ray in about a month, but that was unavoidable.
My only prescription was a codeine based cough syrup which tastes like ass, yet is effective...and is juust niice.
Things don't hurt as much anymore and there's this thread on /d/ that looks really fascinating now...but I'd best not blog about that at all 'cause if I did no one would ever talk to me again...
Oh wait.
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Although I was indeed dragging it's really gauche to be going to the ER for a damned cold.
To my astonishment, I was out in under 90 minutes. I must say that Harborview Medical Center is a really professional outfit and now 3 out of the 3 times I've been there in the last year it's been about as pleasant non-horrific as is possible when one feels like a buffalo chip being used as a Voodoo doll.
There was no Pneumonia on the X-Ray and I was diagnosed with an acute viral infection.
Other than that, my only concern was my second chest X-ray in about a month, but that was unavoidable.
My only prescription was a codeine based cough syrup which tastes like ass, yet is effective...and is juust niice.
Things don't hurt as much anymore and there's this thread on /d/ that looks really fascinating now...but I'd best not blog about that at all 'cause if I did no one would ever talk to me again...
Oh wait.
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