Back to the doctor
Posted by Kathryn on 9th August and posted in Home Life, Korea, Off time
I was doing a lot better by Sunday afternoon. My cough had pretty much gone away and I was sleeping a lot better. By Monday evening, I was back to square one.
I think a big part of it is all the dust from the renovations at the school. I can smell something odd on the first floor where they’re doing a lot of sanding of the plaster.
So the doctor (a different one) upon hearing my hacking cough (and me possibly blowing out his ear drums by coughing while he had the stethoscope in his ears) ordered a chest x-ray.
It came back and all he said is that he saw non-specific changes on the x-ray. To me, that doesn’t sound particularly good. But I was relieved to know I didn’t have pneumonia or anything like that.
So he sent me to the infusion clinic for IV steroids and antibiotics. I sat there for an hour or so with the IV in just reading a magazine (Scientific American, if you’re interested). He then wrote me a prescription for more of what the last doctor prescribed, but with a higher dosage and longer course of steroids.
So I’m back to bouncing around between nasty, loopy and wired. On top of it, my stomach is killing me. I’m not a happy camper right now.
Luckily, the kindergarteners are off at a camp for one more day. So I don’t have anything until 12:50 tomorrow, and that’s just a meeting.
