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[janetlin]

Temp got up to 103+ last night. I freaked out and started talking about dying and what would happen to Morgan. Alan tried to kiss me and I wigged out about not wanting to get him sick. I didn't sleep very well despite Alan sleeping on the couch so I could have the whole bed in which to try to get comfortable. This morning I was 100.5 and felt better, but Alan and Mom had a Sekrit Phone Conference (they are prone to those) and decided that I needed to see the doctor again. *sigh* So I went, figuring they wouldn't tell me anything new but hoping at least they'd give me a prescription for the fever 'cause damn, brain cells are being threatened here. The doctor on duty was different than Monday and I liked her a whole lot better. She was gratifyingly concerned about my high temps, because it _should_ be trending downward, not up. And she took about twice as long listening to me breathe and overall just gave an impression of actually caring what was wrong and trying to figure out how to get me better. The guy on Monday was kind of "meh" about the whole thing, which was really disconcerting given that I was more than half convinced I had swine flu. Bedside manner: you're doing it wrong, dude.

But this lady was awesome and she suggested that I switch to ibuprofen since the Tylenol was doing nothing, also the anti-inflammatory might help with the cough (which is worse today and makes _everything_ hurt). She told us her hours for tomorrow and Friday and implored me to check in with her - "You HAVE to get better, you really do." She mentioned that it might be the flu, which Monday!doctor had seemed to handwave, and that if I _don't_ get better the next step is bloodwork and getting a white cell count and stuff. It's so nice to be taken seriously. It's also nice not to be charged out the nose.

So on our way home we got some ibuprofen. The bottle says to take one capsule but doc said I could take three so I did and wow! We're talking, like, choirs of angels singing. This afternoon my temp bounced around from 100.2 to 102.8 and back but the coughs were so much better, which helped immensely with the overall achiness I've had for the better part of a week now. This evening I was down to 99.6 but just now apparently I'm back to 100.8. Doc said it would bounce but it is, at least, doing so in a downward direction.

Also, my long-overdue period finally started today. Way to fail, body, way to fail.

Since I'll still be contagious this weekend regardless of if the fever breaks by then or not, I won't be able to go out to the boats for the fireworks and water wars. Boo. Dad is going to come down and rescue Morgan from Mommy's sicky germs fetch Morgan tomorrow, though, to take her up the hill for the small-town Amador County festivities which part of me prefers, anyway. The fireworks are shot off from the baseball diamond at the junior high school and the snack bar is open and manned by the 4-H club selling nachos and corn dogs, and the football field is filled with people laying flat on their backs to watch the fireworks go off directly overhead. And then it takes half an hour just to get through town on your way home. Maybe less than that now because these days Jackson has TRAFFIC LIGHTS!!

Oh, speaking of Morgan, this morning she was going on about wanting a flying Pegasus again. I explained we don't have room for one. She is, as usual, undeterred: "Well, we could go to the hardware store, and buy some rope, and tie it to things. Big things that are hard to lift." Oh, I love that little brain.

Oooh, also: I've been having tons of fun poking at the generators at Seventh Sanctum. Character names and descriptions to deities to sci-fi gadgets to evil animal minions (my personal favorite is "super-fast sneaky psychic slugs who can read minds") and even more mundane things like tavern names.

EDIT: 11pm - 99.3, lowest I've been all day, and I feel like I'm sweating like a pig.

Comments

[eonone.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're so sick, and hope you keep getting better. I'm a big fan of the ibuprofen liquigels. They're more powerful than the tablets so you don't have to take as many, and they work instantly. I don't think I've ever taken tylenol again since I tried them, and they're great for cramps.

And I HATE the way that doctors, especially at clinics which are supposed to save you money, just blow you off and then still charge you for advice you could have gotten from WebMD. Good you got a doctor that cares- everytime I've had to go with the random ones I seem to get the Asian guy that I can't understand and who is always wrong about what I had by the time I get to my regular doctor.

Also, Morgan is going to be the next Steve Jobs, I swear.

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I do feel better and, more importantly, more hopeful. I think I might have scared Alan last night though, bless his heart, he didn't show it.

Yeah, the liquigels are what I got. Damn those things are awesome!

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Also, I bet Steve Jobs took/takes pretty good care of his parents...

[starfirenz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never found that Panadol (what we call Tylenol here) does anything whatsoever for me except make me vaguely nausesous.

I don't take a lot of painkiller (thus the whole codeine thing being such a big deal last year), but when I do, I head straight for the Nurofen (which is ibuprofen). It's really the only stuff that works!

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

I used to not pay much attention. Headache medicine was all the same to me. Then when I got pregnant I started reading books and labels and whatnot, and apparently acetominophen is the safest (possibly because it apparently packs less oomph?), so I stuck to Tylenol. But given my experience over the past week I think I might become an ibuprofen girl unless otherwise limited.

[starfirenz.livejournal.com]

Also, thinking lots and lots of healing hugs your way. I was talkign to Alan yesterday online and told him to pass along one or two from me :-)

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

And he did so, thank you.

[trustme1013.livejournal.com]

"flying Pegasus"

Oh, I love her!

(since this is no longer a timely response to said post, I am glad you're feeling better!)

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!