sick grumbling
Jan. 5th, 2024 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strixalbait's time for a mini pity-party for me because i am in a distracting amount of pain right now. i do not want advice.
the Symptoms are mostly gone - I'm still a bit more congested than usual, but I have most of my energy back! Unfortunately the remaining symptoms are:
a) I've completely lost my voice, and in order to speak in anything above a whisper I need to exert as much effort as if I was shouting ... and it still only works every other syllable. It doesn't hurt to whisper but it hurts to talk. I don't mind this nearly as much as the other symptom,
b) big wheezing cough
and I'm pretty sure I cracked a rib coughing this morning.
I can tell which specific one by touching it. I have done this exact same thing about ten years ago, when I also had a persistent hacking cough and cracked a rib. It is different from the time eleven years ago when I had a persistent hacking cough that inflamed the cartilage of my sternum, or the time twelve years ago when I had a persistent hacking cough that inflamed the cartilage of my sternum the first time. I had big boobs and I bound them with a gynecomastia compression vest for 12+ hours every single day for eighteen months, including while doing vigorous exercise, and it wreaked havoc on the physical structure of my rib cage. My ribs still flare out in the front, though not nearly as much as they used to. I know what various kinds of chest pain from compression, asthma, and sickness feels like.
so. the earliest I can get an x-ray is Monday, at which point I hope to have confirmation of what the heck I did to myself at about 9:45am today, but I have a feeling that I managed to re-crack the same rib as I did in college.
I've tested negative repeatedly for covid-19, and I just got tested this afternoon for RSV. I will continue to test for covid-19, just in case.
I am constantly aware of being in pain and watching out for when I'm going to cough next because, as you can imagine, coughing with an injury that was brought on by coughing hurts even more than usual! Breathing deeply with an injury brought on by breathing too violently hurts, but I need to keep doing it so that I don't develop pneumonia on top of everything else.
I'm scheduled for a hysterectomy that I desperately want (and have spent months coordinating with my providers and insurance and workplace) in twelve days and this is the first time I've been sick in four years and it's the most godawful timing.
the Symptoms are mostly gone - I'm still a bit more congested than usual, but I have most of my energy back! Unfortunately the remaining symptoms are:
a) I've completely lost my voice, and in order to speak in anything above a whisper I need to exert as much effort as if I was shouting ... and it still only works every other syllable. It doesn't hurt to whisper but it hurts to talk. I don't mind this nearly as much as the other symptom,
b) big wheezing cough
and I'm pretty sure I cracked a rib coughing this morning.
I can tell which specific one by touching it. I have done this exact same thing about ten years ago, when I also had a persistent hacking cough and cracked a rib. It is different from the time eleven years ago when I had a persistent hacking cough that inflamed the cartilage of my sternum, or the time twelve years ago when I had a persistent hacking cough that inflamed the cartilage of my sternum the first time. I had big boobs and I bound them with a gynecomastia compression vest for 12+ hours every single day for eighteen months, including while doing vigorous exercise, and it wreaked havoc on the physical structure of my rib cage. My ribs still flare out in the front, though not nearly as much as they used to. I know what various kinds of chest pain from compression, asthma, and sickness feels like.
so. the earliest I can get an x-ray is Monday, at which point I hope to have confirmation of what the heck I did to myself at about 9:45am today, but I have a feeling that I managed to re-crack the same rib as I did in college.
I've tested negative repeatedly for covid-19, and I just got tested this afternoon for RSV. I will continue to test for covid-19, just in case.
I am constantly aware of being in pain and watching out for when I'm going to cough next because, as you can imagine, coughing with an injury that was brought on by coughing hurts even more than usual! Breathing deeply with an injury brought on by breathing too violently hurts, but I need to keep doing it so that I don't develop pneumonia on top of everything else.
I'm scheduled for a hysterectomy that I desperately want (and have spent months coordinating with my providers and insurance and workplace) in twelve days and this is the first time I've been sick in four years and it's the most godawful timing.
