***UPDATE*** So after the first doctor's visit got it totally wrong where I had to beg for an x-ray yesterday, they call this morning and say whoops you need better labs and pics. So since Caitlyn and I share similar symptoms and I take her with me. So, good news is Caitlyn has just a viral illness, but she'll be fine. Bad news is she can add it on top of my super contagious double lung mycoplasma pneumonia.
They said they could have admitted me but it was election night so I could come home and be a nerd and watch my 4th love Steve Kornacki on MSNBC call it too close for hours lol. They said if my breathing worsens or fevers get worse to def. return immediately. But I had several breathing treatments, but they left the scariest news for last and that is a mysterious lung nodule seen that I have to wait for the Pneumonia to calm down before they evaluate it just to make sure it's not related but they don't think so. I mean she gave me a stern warning for further testing and that scares me more than what's happening now as we're about to exit with little explanation. I don't smoke, vape, nothing and now I work at a Hazmat only Amazon facility where I have to get new gloves every day because shit I carry around and touch eats through them so I can't imagine what I'm inhaling either.
I gotta thank my boy Andrew Flavell again in combat medic training now, and his line of questioning about my specific symptoms led me to get checked out. I am in no way in the clear though, I've already had sepsis twice in 8 years so I'm vulnerable to that amongst other things and my piss poor metabolic panel so I really need life to not get stressful. Thank God for Amazons generous leave policies and that I can afford to have a small leave of absence without taking away my accrued time and my awesome managers, hr, and safety team.
FYI… My O² levels have been fine… No fevers either. Just horrible cough, profuse sweating, and extremely high heart rate so don't ever let anyone say your O² is fine and you have no fever so you are fine!! I am atypical and never have a fever except during close calls with death like sepsis and even then the 2nd time in 2017 I had way below average temps. It's my policy now to always get immediate second opinions.
Originally posted on Facebook on November 5, 2024.
