Yee-Haw

 

 

 

"Ghosties"
 

Canon G7x Mark II
SnapSeed

The baby-plague I contracted on 10/4 continues in fun and novel ways... A few nights ago around two in the morning, I was enjoying a nightly hacking session while taking in a horror movie.. The racket woke up Doff. She came down and encouraged me to see another Doctor for the cough.. Of course, I didn't want to... after all I had plenty o'coughs in my life. This was just another one.  Doff didn't agree. We had a "spirited debate" which ended with me making another Doctor's appointment.  Good thing Doff said something.  When I went to the doc's, suspicious sounds turned up when the Doc listened to the lungs.. She ordered an X-ray. The X-ray showed "Low Lung Volumes with Atelectstasis."  Pretty cool right?  Atelectstasis is a just a fancy word for collapsed lung tissue. Due to Doff's persistance, it was caught pretty early in its progression.  It can, if ignored, lead to bad shit in old fucks like me. The doc prescribed a new fancy inhaler which has helped a lot. I can sleep at night. I no longer keep Doff awake either. The challenging bit is that I still am coughing up fascinating bits and bobs from my lungs.. (I'm sure it's normal. And - if it's not - it's probably because I'm fat and I deserve it anyway - so it's all good.)   The other good thing is that it doesn't hurt to cough any more. I think that weeks of coughing has served as a bit of a core muscle boot camp.. So that's virtuous..  By the time I finish the round of inhaler treatments - I'll have been entertaining this viral visitor for six weeks.   Yay.   Bring on flu season and the latest COVID surge.  ~