Sign me up for a robot body

[dorinda]

On the bright side!: my ankle healed up really quickly, and is thoroughly usable now, though I should still remember to do some stretches and exercises for it.

On the less-than-bright side!: Turns out I have walking pneumonia. >:-\ Luckily the "walking" part means I have mostly been up and about, and haven't had to miss too much work, but the "pneumonia" part means that I am so. Tired. Of coughing. I mean it is so tedious. I do not enjoy it as a hobby.

Hopefully these horse pills they gave me will kick it out the door, and then I can concentrate on my Yuletide letter and signup. DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, IMMUNE SYSTEM--IT IS YULETIDE SEASON!

Comments

[gwyn]

OH NOES! (I am redundantly giving you my oh noes icon)

At least there's an explanation of why that cold was so stubborn. (I have one too that I am now suspiciously side-eyeing.)

Hey, I might run off to DC one last time while Keith's still there, in a couple weeks. Do you think you'll be around?

[dorinda]

Thank you! And thank you for the icon, it makes me laugh. :D I think it also explains why things about this 'cold' were so atypical for my colds.

(Edited to add: the icon does not explain the atypicality. The diagnosis does. Dangling modifiers, how do they work?!?!)

I should be around, and I hope healed up (crosses fingers, knocks wood). Although not on 10/20 (projecting a film that night) or 10/24 (dentist appt I've had to put off twice already due to coughing). Happy to hang if you get a chance!

Important and irritating note: for some reason I currently don't get cell signals at all while at work, which has been massively inconvenient. (Can't get texts or calls from doc's office, for instance. Grr.) So on weekdays during working hours, email is actually a better contact method.

[trascendenza]

Hope you feel better soon!

[dorinda]

Thank you! I am trying to sleep as much as possible in between workdays, and cheering on the antibiotics in their fight against evil.

[the_shoshanna]

Look, I know there are lots of things to admire and emulate about Hillary Clinton, but let's not get carried away. Best wishes for a quick return to health -- and for fun writing your YT letter!

[dorinda]

But but but I want to commit to my cosplay!!! :D

Every one of my coworkers, when I told them the diagnosis, said "Just like Hillary!" ♥ Well, ya know, we are sort of neighbors, so maybe that explains how we caught it. Although she carries it off with more panache than I ever could.

[isis]

Get better pronto!

[dorinda]

Thank you! I am trying to be patient and get lots of sleep, and visualizing little antibiotic cells scouring out my lungs like Scrubbing Bubbles (tm).

[klia]

Glad the ankle's better, but... walking pneumonia? WTH?! I really hope the drugs knock it completely out this time, especially with winter approaching and the weather changing. Eccch.

*hugs*

[dorinda]

*hugs back* Thanks! Yeah, next week the temps are apparently dipping to low-60s daytime/50s at night, which I like outdoors in a jacket, but the heat's not on indoors yet. If I felt better and had more energy, after work I'd walk over to the store that has electric blankets. I am considering forking over for quick Amazon shipping, because it seems to me that the last thing a pneumoniac needs is really cold indoor temps!

[torch]

I'm sending all kinds of hugs! A happy, healthy Dorinda is the best kind.

[dorinda]

Aw thank you! I gladly return hugs, and without coughing in your ear even.

And at some point I should tell you about my continuing adventures playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I finally got and am in the middle of. It is much fun, but somehow it feels harder to make friends with my companions than in DA2. Like, I have such warm feelings about Varric leftover from DA2, but in DAI he, like everyone else (except the one I am working so hard to romance), seems pretty distant from the poor ol' inquisitor. She never knows what she missed, I guess, not being Hawke.

[msmoat]

Eek! Well, yay for the ankle healing quickly, but...eeek! You must take better care of yourself!

Yay, Yuletide! That happy, stressful time of year. *g*

[dorinda]

What with the lungs causing so much trouble, it took me till almost deadline to even get signed up! But now I am signed up, so here's hoping it all goes smoothly. I'm already trying to daydream up story ideas in advance, so when the assignments go out I don't get that Yuletide Paralysis I have on occasion faced. :D

[marycrawford]

WHAT THE SHIT, I do not like this news! I sincerely hope that you have no pneumonia anymore, looking at the date on this, but eep. Hope the horsepills worked and then some.

[dorinda]

DUDE IT SUCKS.

I'm finished with the antibiotics, and the gunk I'm coughing up is no longer alarming colors, so I assume the infection itself must be gone? But I am still COUGHING. Wheeze, crackle, cough cough cough. I heartily disapprove and intend to send a sternly worded missive to management. >:-[

I have a phone appointment with my doctor tomorrow, and I guess will see what she says. But I'm tired of it and would like it to stop nao plz.

[marycrawford]

Aaww maaaan, sympathies. I hope your doc has something that can help, maybe to suppress the coughing, or maybe she can prescribe SOME NICE COMFY BED REST and no work. Fingers crossed!