Tell me something I don’t already know. This is going to be a short blahg to update you on how sick I am.
I guess I should start this off as another one of my “cautionary tales” I’ve reported a few of those. Let me see, there was May of 2021 when the side effects of a Covid vaccine laid me out. ASTRAZENECA VACCINE, MY CAUTIONARY TALE was the blahg I wrote about it. That was a tough one. Then there was the time I first got Covid in December 2023. You can read about that in “THE CHRISTMAS MAYONNAISE”. Oh, and there was that time I fell out of my bathtub, just last year, and thought I had broken my neck. Don’t let the title of that blahg fool you: ANOTHER ROUND OF HOLIDAYS!
I’ll start with the short explanation this time around. I got Covid…again. I had been feeling fine health wise but on the morning of Friday June 5th, I woke up with an extremely sore throat and ears. It wasn’t better by noon so I went to the Picton hospital. They were very good and quick and the Doctor I saw took a throat swab. He came back to say that the good news was that I didn’t have strep-throat but the bad news was I had Covid. I wonder if Strep might have been better. He said to take Tylenol and tough it out. I was sick through to June 10th but felt well enough to go back to work on the 11th. Bad idea. I relapsed on the 12th and felt progressively worse. I was tired. I had no energy. I was coughing up mucus and phlegm (aren’t they the same?). It was the nastiest green stuff you ever saw. Nice picture hunh? Overnight from the 13th to the 14th I was up most of the night hacking and coughing. Oh yeah, it hurt when I urinated.
When I woke up again mid-morning on June 14th, I requested my wife to drive me to the hospital again. I had nothing left in me to fight this infection. So, it was back to the hospital in Picton again. I had another great on call Doctor and he tested my urine and they did a chest X-ray. Yep, I was sick. I now had a slight case of pneumonia and I had thickened urine. I guess that’s a thing. That’s why it hurt when I had to urinate. One hour and forty-five minutes in the ER and I came away with a prescription for an antibiotic. First dose was a double dose and last night I slept for twelve hours and only got up to urinate once…compared to the dozen times the night before. This morning, June 15th, I’m feeling better and I can urinate again without pain. Thank you, medical science.
That’s my short tale for this time around. No photos and no music. I had heard there was a new Covid vaccine out but decided not to get it. I thought I’d probably built up immunity. If you’re like me, smack yourself in the head and go get the vaccine. Covid is still a thing and then it morphs into another thing. For me, it was pneumonia. Cautionary tale or advice. Your choice. Or get sick and write a blahg about it. I probably won’t read yours. I’ve lived mine.
Tags: Covid, False Ducks, Scott Henderson