ON PNEUMONIA

Original Content | 3/6/2014 | By Laz A. Mataz

[VeniVidiVici]

Obviously, it was only a matter of time before I acquired Streptococcus pneumoniae alpha-hemolytic septicemia osteomyelitis necrotyzing meningococcal meningitis (Neisseria meningitidis) H7N9 staphylococcal coronavirus fasciitis Marburg hemorrhagic fever causing Endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, diabetes, Chrones Disease, scalp spasms, and valvular revolvular.

I had this once. Just sit in a hot steam bath for an hour or so.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Instructive! Thanks for sharing. I just want to add that I ended up having viral pneumonia once last year, and what may have been bacterial pneumonia a second time about three months later. My new doc opines that the second bout may have been caused by a pocket of “gunk” (the medical term, apparently) left in the lower lobe of one lung. At any rate, the second time I had to take TWO rounds of different antibiotics, and also get an X-ray to confirm my lungs finally being clear.

So while I appaud your independence, if you have health coverage, I suggest strongly that you actually go to a doc and get a follow-up on all this. At least get your lungs listened to by a pro, and possibly get an X-ray as well. My second bout of pneumonia was much like yours (fever, chills, severe shaking, all sorts of goodies) and I would not want to go through that again if a little follow-up could prevent it!

[BuckeyeTexan]

Geez, buddy. That’s scary. So glad you’re okay.

[MrB]

I believe that’s listed as a “common side effect” to some medications.

[Celtic Conservative]

At least you didn't succumb to the vapors or the heartbreak of psoriasis! Seriously, though I too came down with a lung infection in Feboo Ferbruer, last month. The same night It started to seriously get worse, My furnace broke. It got down to -20 in the frostbitten thumb of the enchanted mitten that night, and about 45 indoors. I piled all available blankets and cats on the bed (they eventually wimped out and got under the covers with me) and called the heating and cooling guy pronto at sun-up. T'was then I heard the heating guys words of pain: "gee, they don't make these any more!". I heated the house with borrowed space heaters for a week until a part came in. fortunately it was relatively cheap, but what with losing one of my furbabies and the biblical proportions of this winter it was just too fripping much.

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[familyop]

Thank you. Good learning.