Viral Infection
Went to the good ol' ER last night. I've had an unbarabel sore throat and a fever for the past few days, and last night it peaked. Started spitting up blood, couldn't sleep, and hadn't eaten for 2 days. Get there, and I felt like some sort of science show... everyone in there wanted to take a peak at my throat because they said it was the nastiest thing they've seen. My right tonsil was swolen so bad that you could see the knot sticking out of my neck. They named off several different things that were wrong with me, but they were all that medical mumbo jumbo that nobody understands. They finally decided to do a test for strep throat, which came up negative, so I got the usual shpeal. Viral Infection. Treatment... Penacilin and Ibuprofin. Just had one of the medics come to my room and wanted to hook my up to an IV and I told him to get the hell out... so he left it here and said he would come and check up on me from time to time and if I get any worse, he's sticking me. They also tried giving me the infamous shot in the arse, last night. That didn't fly. I wasn't about to get stuck in the ass, then not be able sit on my left check for 5 days.
Going to miss the basketball game tonight. I'll post up whether or not they won. They're playing some other MI unit. Back to bed for me... peace out!
4 Comments:
that sucks.. get better quick!
Yeah, that cracks me up too. "Ya have a viral infection!... Here are some antibiotics!" Does anybody else see whats wrong with that? Granted, there are no cures for viral infection but still, penecillin isnt a cure-all.
See, what youre doing now is killing off good and bad bacteria in your body. But youre not killing off all of them, just the weakest ones. So the strong survive and multiply. and the next time you get a Bacterial infection, itll be more feirce. Eh.. i could go on and on. Im not even a nurse yet and i know that passing out random medications is bad for u!
I hope you get better bro. That sucks!
yeah, what he said.
I told everyone that kept trying to get me to go in, that they were just going to tell me it's a virus and give me some antibiotics. That seems to be their cop out for everything when they don't know what you have. So, instead of taking the extra time and running some tests or something, they just want to "treat" you and get you out. I was supposed to go back in today if I wasn't feeling any better, but guess what... I have to go to work instead. The upside to that is... I'm highly contagious, so hopefully I'll get everyone that works in their sick, then they can work with this crap.
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