"P-Neumonia!!!!

Hey wait-I do know how to spell “Pneumonia . “ that is how I remembered the spelling over all these years ! But I digress......,
The real story started about a week ago.  After having a nagging little cough for a couple weeks which I actually thought was an allergy, last Friday afternoon things changed remarkably quickly. Sitting in work, this miasma came over me like someone flipped a switch.  I felt really awful really fast.  My bones ached, my fingers ached, and curiously this seemed familiar.....oh no Pneumonia?   o hope against hope I went home took my Temp (98.8 actually my “normal” is 96.8) so I was up a bit-but nothing to worry about.  Figured i would ride out the weekend and if still feeling bad call the doctor on Monday. Wrong answer as it turned out.

On Saturday  afternoon, i went down faster than a bobsled. Temperature over a hundred and every teeny little bone in my body ached, so I called the Doctors office.  The woman covering told me to get to the emergency room.

So reluctantly I dragged my butt to the emergency room at Winchester Hospital-which for the nasty treatment I got there might has well have just checked into Hades..... Oh my are they nasty. Now mind you, my temperature is raging, every bone in my body aches, m skin feels like its gonna slide right off my achy bones-so they take my vitals and tell me to sit down.  Two minutes later -front and center-now they need my insurance info-and bu the  way want to pay that $100.00 co-pay now? I agreed to pay the Co-pay cause i figured in my scheming brain that perhaps if I paid-I might get preferential treatment- ha,ha, ha, ha.......
So now I have the bracelet, and i sit and I sit and i sit.  Thirsty, uncomfortable. hot, after two hours ok now it’s time for blood work and a chest X-Ray.  (They want to make sure I’m not fakin’ this just for the good time) so into the arm goes the needle and she starts filling these bottles that looked like nips-something about bacteria. Then it’s off to X-ray and sit some more hours.  Finally they call you so you think this is it-oh wait put on this Johnny and wait a few more hours.

Finally the Doctor comes in and announces that after some antibiotics I’ll be going home.  She forgot to mention that it would take two hours for the IV drips of antibiotics.  Finally i get home so you think now with all this hospitalization that i was on my way to feeling good.   Well they gave me a prescription for something called “Byoxin.” and I took it the next day.....my skin developed a nasty looking rash.  o here I was n Sunday, one of the hottest days of the year with a 102 degree temp, which was so high I had trouble moving my eyes from sided to side, pouring sweat and covered with a nasty rash (I must add here-when I was in the Navy I had a shipmate from deep in the mountains of West Virginia- never owned a pair of shoes until boot camp- his name was “Woody.”  ell whenever Woody got sick if you asked how he felt he would say. “ I only felt this bad twice in my life-and both right now!” That is how i felt that Sunday- I was sure I was going to die.  Monday i felt a little better-but not much, and on Tuesday I felt good enough to drive myself to the doctors office to see about this nasty rash.  My Doctor was on vacation, but I met with the only medical person in the entire ordeal to actually seem concerned and offer some compassion, a Nurse practitioner
named Maria and she was awesome.  She gave me a new prescription threw away the old nasty one- and I was on my way to recovery. Honest i wouldn’t wish this on anyone.