To Peachie and gang:
I decided band surgery was not exciting enough, and that I needed more attention. My solution? Bronchitis!
Monday, I was at my dr's office, full of icky bronchitis symptoms. Her first question to me: Do you have a surgery date scheduled yet?
I picked up my tee-shirt and showed her my belly, LOL!
I left with prescriptions for Doxycycline and Albuterol inhaler. Ugh.
Gotta say this, bronchitis is a real appetite killer! It's also MURDER on a surgical belly, even a laparoscopy one!
That evening, because I've got stress incontinence as one of my "co-morbidities," I developed full-blown urinary tract infection symptoms, too. Aren't I the fun one? A quick check of the internet let me know doxycycline is for UTIs too, so I just scrounged up some pyridium in my personal poison parade and whined until the pain went away. (for those of you who have had frequent UTIs, you know what I mean!)
I've killed a gallon of cranberry juice this week.
While in the poison parade, I found three bottles of phenergan with codeine cough syrup, so I started tossing that down the hatch.
By Wednesday night, the codeine isn't TOUCHING the cough, and I'm spiking a fever. The cough feels like it starts around my kneecaps and then roars like a freight train up through my chest and out my mouth. My ribcage feels like it's been used for soccer practice.
But the surgery lines look GREAT! No redness, no heat, no swelling! No stitches, they were glued shut and covered with Steri-strips. Most of the Steri-strips have fallen off, and the little bit of bruising I had is now yellowish.
Still hurts like **** when I cough.
Back to the doctor...
She walks into the exam room, looks at me, and says, "Didn't I JUST see you?"
"Uh...yeah..."
So, I've got a different antibiotic, and an off-work slip for another week.
Here's the good news: The new antibiotic seems to be working (thank YOU GOD!) and according to my bathroom scale, I've lost 5-1/2 pounds!
Conclusion: coughing is an aerobic exercise.
~VOW
Banded 1-31-04 by Dr Kuri
284/258 at banding/whatever God wants me to weigh
Hey VOW!
