well, smeg.

so much for Hippocrates, Asklepios, or Apollo showing up during the night.

103.6.

*pulls up Aetna page, starts looking for approved physicians*

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Meh. Waiting for x-ray results at emergency room now. Doctor wanted to check for walking pneumonia.

Fun exchange that has been repeated several times today as prelude to the x-ray:

"Any chance you might be pregnant, ma'am?"
"I'm menstruating."

Anyway. Waiting on results now.

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Well, it's official; I have pneumonia. I am not to return to work before the twenty-first. In the meantime I am to use Tylenol for fever reduction, or any other brand of acetaminophen/paracetamol; ibuprofen is fine for relief of pain from coughing but they said to bring the fever down, use the acetaminophen. I have a prescription for antibiotics. They gave me my first dose at the hospital. I'll get the Rx filled tomorrow at Target.

Dammit, I hate being sick.

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Tylenol is a great fever reducer. I have no idea what the chemical pathway is that it uses, but within minutes of swallowing the stuff, my body suddenly remembers- OH YEAH WE SHOULD SWEAT NOW HUH.

Chloraseptic, on the other hand, is a total bitch that needs to die horribly. Because I tried spraying some at the back of my throat to quiet the HORK HORK HORK coughing that my post nasal drip periodically triggers, and it happened to hit the gag reflex spot. At which point the Tylenol fled the premises.

I've taken more of the stuff and I'm sucking a Chloraseptic lozenge. And I am sweating like an extra in an H. Rider Haggard novel.

time to go order soup.

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There are: 2 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

on another note:

DEAR POSTNASAL DRIP:

CEASE AND DESIST AT ONCE.

my God, as if everything else wasn't bad enough! I'd like a few hours in which I didn't randomly get COUGH COUGH COUGH OH GOD THROAT RAW WHEEZE OW.