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August 30, 2007
Typhoid Mary
So in the last 24 hours I've had a chest x-ray, a stress echocardiagram, and a CT scan. The latter was ordered because the first showed I had "what looks like fluids" in my lungs, which "might be an infection, but probably not pneumonia because you don't have a fever". The stress test was, well, stressful. YOU try jogging on a treadmill with an IV in your arm and eight bazillion wires attached to you and NO BRA. It was not sexy. As bad as that was, the CT scan was worse because the receptionist had been told that I'd been ordered to wear a hospital mask in the waiting room and during the test (also a bra-free zone). I felt like a fucking leper, and of course nobody would tell me WHY I was wearing a mask. Maybe it has to do with my constant wheezing and coughing since the stress test.
Anyway, I seriously need a cocktail and/or a chocolate milkshake and/or some fucking ANSWERS.
Comments
I wonder if it's because of the recent drug-resistant TB strains. Maybe anyone who appears to have fluid in their lungs automatically gets stuck with a mask. Sorry about the bra, the tumbler, and the laptop, by the way. Hope your week starts to look up.
Posted by: Kathleen at August 30, 2007 11:38 PM
I hope you get answer soon. And good answers, not bad answers. And I will have a chocolate milkshake in your honor.
Posted by: grace at August 31, 2007 7:01 AM
I say have the chocolate, milkshake, AND cocktail. (Although maybe not all at the same time.)
Posted by: madalyn at August 31, 2007 7:02 AM
If only I'd been home, I could have made you a Brandy Alexander or a Mudslide which would have covered all the bases. Darn.
Posted by: Nathan at August 31, 2007 3:30 PM
I took a treadmill stress test once, braless. It sounds like your's was rather different than mine though.
Posted by: Bob at August 31, 2007 6:16 PM