Still Kicking
Posted on | February 27, 2006 at 10:43 pm | 5 Comments
So it turned out to be a virus after all, of the gastrointestinal variety. It isn’t totally done with me yet. But at least I’m beginning to feel human again and went into work today. The fever has pretty much subsided and I’m decongesting. Most food, aside from sweets, still tastes like cardboard, and I’ve lost nine pounds. Not exactly the way I wanted to lose weight, but I’ll take it. I’m not ready to declare myself back in the human race until I can quaff a pint of golden, delicious beer. Soon, soon…
Latre.
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5 Responses to “Still Kicking”
February 28th, 2006 @ 3:05 am
Hurrah for your medical mystery solved! My sister-in-law has been in and out of the hospital for 3 weeks, first for mystery infection, then “reaction to antibiotics, probably” and now they finally figured it out – Measels! She’s about 26 and is in her 2nd year of a catering degree; Austrailan “privacy” laws being what they are (better than ours, for damn sure), it’s a huge deal trying to track down who needs to be warned and then confirming whether they got informed, whoever they may or may not have been, etc…
As for me, I get a factor in my blood checked periodically in one of the leading medical offices in Beverly Hills – my doctor is known as one of the best in his field, even by random emergency room personnel who’ve never met him or me before. And they occasionally run entirely the wrong test on my blood sample, forcing me to drive back for a second sticking. I know mistakes happen, but we’re still supposed to trust the number that comes out of the other end of this process, and use it to adjust my common-but-tricky medication? (most people on this pill no longer need testing after the first few weeks, the dosage for their particular chemistry has stabilized; I’m still getting tested bimonthly after almost a year)
Methinks the medical profession isn’t much better run than the software world – what’s gonna be the Dilbert for doctors?
February 28th, 2006 @ 8:00 am
Ben, glad to hear your sis-in-law is okay.
My impression of the medical profession is at even lower point now after this virus bout than it was before. But I’m dealing with an HMO.
February 28th, 2006 @ 10:03 pm
Just remember – everyplace is as screwed up as where you work. It’s just that with medicine, the stakes are higher.
If anyone goes into the hospital expecting to see George Clooney and a crack team of highly trained, battle-hardened, compassionate medical experts, they’ve been watching too much TV. And if you saw 60 Minutes the other night, you know how crime labs ain’t exactly “CSI” either… so don’t get arrested (you don’t want to know how outsourcing has affected the corrections system).
March 1st, 2006 @ 10:46 am
Not to make light of your illness, but I wish everything I ate tasted like cardboard, at least for 2 out of 3 meals a day. That would solve at least one addiction.
March 1st, 2006 @ 1:02 pm
I’m sure you could just eat cardboard for those two meals…
Seriously, I wouldn’t wish the cardboard thing on anyone. It is so unpleasant. Luckily, I seem to be almost past that stage now.
Hmmm… comment notification doesn’t seem to be working very well. I didn’t get notification of this comment or the last one that I posted. So, loyal readers, if I seem to be ignoring your comments, that’s why…