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[ricevermicelli]

The doctor told me yesterday to call back if I ran a fever - done and done.

Evidently this crap is going around. Five to seven days for the feverish part to pass and potentially another two weeks for the cough to go away. Call back again if the fever goes up another degree or so or I start coughing up blood.

Yay.

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[steuard.livejournal.com]

Oh, ick, that's no good. Get well soon! (And best wishes to the rest of the family, too!)

[beth_leonard]

Hope you get well on schedule. I'd say "soon" but 5-7 days of fevers probably doesn't feel like soon. I guess I'd hope for it to be even sooner than the average case scenario but wishing for pigs to fly isn't something I do on purpose often.

--Beth

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

The pigs are firmly grounded.

I've been sick since Tuesday, and it definitely doesn't feel like "soon" - I don't know when the fevers started, because I couldn't find a thermometer until Friday, but since then, my temperature on any given day has ranged from 97 to 100.5 or so. At the low end, I feel functional (albeit, hacking), but the moment my temp hits 99, I feel as though I need to lie down immediately.

The variability alone is exhausting. Without it, I think I could cope with the cough, so long as I didn't try to drive myself anywhere.

[jealoussister3.livejournal.com]

Do you have this?

[graceo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I bet it's that.

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Oh, that can be nasty stuff. It runs differently in different people, but it gave me pneumonia (and made me miss about three weeks of seventh grade in the process). Fortunately, there are antibiotics for it. (They tasted awful, though. I got actively nauseous every time I tasted artificial banana flavor for about the next decade.)