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Turning technology from mumbo-jumbo into rich tasty gumbo
� Staring Down Apple | Main | Happiness is a Warm Power Strip �So I have pneumonia. Great. I don't feel all that awful, but it explains the slightly bizarre bubbling sound I was getting while breathing in my chest, which can be a symptom of bronchitis (so it was slightly familiar), but the chest X-Rays don't lie. Fortunately, my doctor's practice is a good one, and based on my Saturday afternoon fever of 104, they started me on a good, reliable antibiotic, so I'm already on the mend.
Still, geez, I'm in good health, have few risk factors...pneumonia! Ah, well, that's probably why it hasn't seemed so awful. I've heard this from a lot of people when they've had a certain part or system in their body go awry: like ____ ________ and his arterial trauma -- you've got a strong heart, but you could have had a heart attack. Eh? You're healthy and you've got cancer. What? The body has both holistic and reductionist elements to it.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the diagnosis of sleep apnea I'd received, and the machine I sleep with nightly, noting that I was up to three serious illnesses in my life solved by modern medicine. Hey, I just reached four!
Posted by Glennf at October 22, 2002 6:09 AM
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Yeah, I was worried about that connection, but I've been cleaning the whole unit daily and using only distilled water. It's possible that the unit caused it, but I hope not, as I'm following "the rules" very closely: warm, soapy water every day; 50/50 vinegar/water cleaning every month
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at October 25, 2002 2:17 PM
Keep your CPAP and mask clean, and use only distilled water in the humidification unit, if you have one. The warmed, humidified air can provide a wonderful growth medium for bacteria, and the mask and CPAP can make sure those bacteria go right into your lungs!
Posted by: Pete at October 25, 2002 1:47 PM
Based on my own experience with bacterial pneumonia back in '87 (when I was young and healthy enough to ride mt. bikes at 12,000 ft for gosh sakes), it can take a while to recover. The antibiotics obviously will provide some immediate relief, but it can take several months to beat back the pneumonia completely (as I discovered when I prematurely hopped back on my bike two months later and wound up crawling over to the side of the trail, gasping).
So here's to a speedy recovery Glenn.
Posted by: Nolan at October 23, 2002 9:42 AM
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