{"id":7652,"date":"2012-05-21T15:18:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2012-05-22T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T00:25:48","slug":"finally-went-to-a-pulmonogist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/?p=7652","title":{"rendered":"Finally went to a pulmonogist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>My condition hasn&#8217;t improved much.  I still have a cough, I&#8217;m worn out and even slight exertion leaves me winded.  Dr. Indira, John&#8217;s pulmonologist, let me schedule an appointment at the same time John was seeing her.  She realized how sick I was.  She put me on an antibiotic and immediately sent me for a chest x-ray.  There&#8217;s a little congestion in one lung.  The antibiotic will knock it out.  I should have gone in sooner but kept thinking I could fight it off on my own.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m at Walmart waiting for my &#8216;script to be filled.  Nothing like waiting when you feel rotten to add to your misery.  They&#8217;re really backed up.  But I&#8217;ll be patient.<\/p>\n<p>==========<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now fan of prescribed drugs. Yesterday, my pulmonologist (actually she&#8217;s John&#8217;s but now I can claim her too) put me on a strong antibiotic, Avelox. I&#8217;ll take it for seven days total (so I&#8217;m only two days into the schedule.) I can honestly say that I am feeling human for the first time in over two weeks. <\/p>\n<p>I am still weak as a kitten with absolutely no energy, but at least today I managed to unpack a few more items, and work on the descriptions of workshops for the ODPC. When Dr. Indira checked me, my left lung gurgled a little so I guess I needed to visit the specialist.  Now after only two days, I feel the antibiotics are really helping. I&#8217;ll have to go back to her next next week, but hopefully by then, I&#8217;ll be fine. Yeah! for prescribed drugs (when needed)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday &#8211; My condition hasn&#8217;t improved much. I still have a cough, I&#8217;m worn out and even slight exertion leaves me winded. Dr. Indira, John&#8217;s pulmonologist, let me schedule an appointment at the same time John was seeing her. She realized how sick I was. She put me on an antibiotic and immediately sent me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-05-to-10-early-spring-to-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7666,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions\/7666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharons-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}