Turns out I had Consumption and Congestive Chill, Bloody Flux which caused Apoplexy, the Grippe, and Flus of Humour, Scrofula, and Putrid Fever.
God I love how they used to refer to disease back in the 1800’s.
Laz, why are you describing my life?
If you have a nebulizer, a mix of hydrogen peroxide and saline is useful for treating pneumonia.
Thank God you don't have anal leakage just yet....
THAT’s the immediate reaction I have if I sneeze more than twice!ha.
Great write-up..just excellant. I am selfishly glad that you survived so we could have this great post. Glad you are ok.
I might be naive, but how would you have prescription medication available?
Does this mean ... I could inherit ... I'll Hit It?
I too have a dreaded fear of taking an ambulance ride. I’ve had friends charged $5-10k for the privilege. Most had insurance which probably negotiated it down to $2-3k. But if you’re uninsured you owe the whole shebang.
On the other hand, if you come in an ambulance you’re automatically admitted rather than spending god-knows-how many hours in a hard plastic chair next to somebody with infectious TB.
“That which does not kill us makes us post vanities.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Seriously, I’m glad you’re on the mend.
I got a real bad case of pneumonia a few years ago, and collapsed. Someone saw me and got me to the emergency ward. I'm fine, put here's a caution: it never really completely goes away.
I've gone to pure foods, detoxed as much as possible, live a very balanced lifestyle. I also did a bucket list, but cancelled it halfway through....it does have a healing effect to do some of those things you've always wanted to do!
Stay healthy.
I thought you were dead Laz? Did you put me in your will?
Damn, Dude, glad you paddled back across the river styx!
Hope next week is better....
Pneumonia with no breathing problem in the symptom list—a first! Research doctors should be very interested.
Damn Laz, you are indestructible!! If and when you do kick........it will most likely be due to some super-nuclear hi-powered creepy crawlin’ STD ya picked up from hittin’ anything that lives!! (Or maybe even some dead stuff...hell I don’t know!)
Welcome to the club.
Not quite that mouthful, I had bacterial pneumonia once. I went from cheerful and healthy to very nearly dead in a few hours one afternoon, it was that sudden.
Antibiotics saved my life; be sure you don’t end your regimen too soon, though - my understanding is you have to continue the antibiotics for a while even after you feel okay or those last little bacteria can grow back with a bang.
Glad you’re still with us.
If that is true Laz, then what the hell are you doing self prescribing medication and self diagnosing when you feel at deaths door?
Really. This is scary. It could have turned out quite differently. I won't get into specifics, but as someone who believes in holistic medicine as self care over a doctor most times, I am horrified at your story. Especially having recently been very sick myself for a month. Let's just pray that it work for you this time and there is no rebound or underlying infection growing inside.
Am I in your will and what do I get?
Hahahahahaha....all I could see when I read that was "vulvavulvavulvavulva"...too many "V", "U", "A" and "L"s in one short segment!
In any case, take care of yourself...hope you are feeling better.
Glad you pulled through. Pneumonia is nothing to fool with, which is why I went kayaking in the everglades the first time I had it.