Consumption is so much more Romantic

[lunabee34]

*does not google "hacking cough that persists for four weeks accompanied by no other symptomalogy"*

Comments

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Good thing you've gotten it now; it would be a shame for you to have finished your dissertation without a nice bout of consumption.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I know!

I feel the urge to sob into my lachrymal and braid Josh's hair into a pendant. However shall I resist?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Fairly new house. You and Offspring both have respiratory symptoms. Sounds like an allergen to me.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I know!

The doctor has pretty definitively diagnosed Emma's asthma, but now I'm starting to have visions of mold or some shit. *sigh*

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Dude! If I were you, I'd stay with the visions of sugarplums.

[tabaqui]

Heeeee.
Yes. Wan, pale, weakish, the lace hanky flutters from your fingers....
*snerk*

Um - you goober. See the doc. Possibly allergies but why push it?
*pokes you*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee.

When this started a month ago, I saw the doctor a week and a half into it and she told me it was a virus and to basically suck it up. I called her three weeks into it and the same. Suck it up.

So, *shrugs* IDK?

I haven't had a fever at all. I literally have no other symptoms. But the coughing is sometimes so bad that I have to use the inhaler that she prescribed me. Josh has pretty much said that I'm making another appt on Monday and I will.

[tabaqui]

Wow, that's lame. If it's lingering that long, you do something more proactive than 'suck it up'. Gods. Sometimes doctor's suck so hard.
*pet pet pet pet pet pet pet pet*

[ariadne83]

Eeep. I'd be going to the doc and getting antibiotics. If it hasn't cleared up on its own after all this time, it's unlikely to (as I discovered the hard way, when I got bronchitis in the middle of summer)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I know!

*cries*

See my comment upthread to Tabi.

[lyr]

Ack! Go to the doctor. Right the hell now. While it could be that six-week cold that's been going around (and boy, did I hate that fucker), it could also be a respiratory infection, and you need to get on those before they deepen into true pneumonia.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I just don't know!!!!!!

See my comment upthread to Tabi.

[lyr]

I think it sounds like your doctor could be more thorough. And more sympathetic. I still say go get help, but maybe from a different doctor.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Josh is all tearing his hair out LOL and he's made me promise to make another appt. I think I'll give this doc one more chance, see what she says and then like you suggest, look for another if I'm not impressed.

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

::waves hand:: I get that too.

In my case, it's allergies. In your case? I'd go see the doctor to rule out walking pneumonia or some such. The Spouse once had pleurisy and his only symptom was a painful cough.

Don't mess with your lungs, girl! They don't issue new ones if you mess up the ones you have...

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I want new ones! I ruined mine in college LOL

See my comment upthread to Tabi.