Chronicles of Hypochondria
After I got offline this morning I took my kids to school. By the time I got home I was a sweaty mess and sure enough I had a fever. I had zero energy so went back to bed. At 2:00 I went back to the doctor who told me the dose of Flovent I was on was too small. No wonder I was not getting better! He hooked me up to the Ventolin mask and I started to feel better in about 20 minutes. He put me back on Prednisone with a wean off dose plus Symbicort plus and antibiotic. When I left I wanted to give him a hug. Sometimes you get a good doctor and other times you get a doctor that is excellent. When I got home I cleaned my bedroom and the bathroom. It probably wasn't a great idea but sometimes having a clean living space is good for the soul.
Somebody, I am not sure who put on Norbert's Christmas jingle bells. The bells came in a set with a hat that makes him murderous but he seems to enjoy the bells. Is it possible that a cat can feel "fancy"? Because he seems happy right now and he is never happy. Every few minutes he scratches at his neck and jingle, jingle, jingle. After some investigating I found out it was my daughter that put them on but nobody has bothered to take them off because we all agree that he feels better about life when they are on.
OK, I have laundry to do.
PS- I don't hate everything as much as I did this morning.
O dear, do rest up and get well soon. I know this sort of thing can make one feel crappy not only physically but emotionally as well, but hang in there!! This too shall pass, as they say, and surely it is one of the truer life quotes. I am reminded now of this bit of writing by Le Fanu, one of my favourite authors: "Thus, if there are afflictions, there are also comforts... It shall not be all bitter nor all sweet for any. It shall be life... Thorns, also, and thistles shall it bring forth, and God provides the flowers too" *hugs*
ReplyDeleteI am glad you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteYes, humor him. Bells, no hat.
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling much better too. My doctor gave me a shot of something and then put me on the breathing machine. He was going to give me Pred but I'm allergic. So I have an inhaler and it seems to be working.
ReplyDeleteYay to feeling a tiny bit better. And yes a clean living area helps.
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that Norbert likes his bells. Love, love, love it. I may get a set for Jazz.
Feel better! And perhaps Norbert knew about the hat, and that's why he shit on your pillow? If someone made me wear a hat like that, I'd definitely shit on their pillow.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're feeling better. Asthma is a bitch. Period. My doctor added another med to my regimen at my visit last week. Feh! I'm sick of living on drugs... something I swore I'd never do. But here I am... six every-day pills, three inhalers and a shitload of vitamins, every bloody day. I hate it.
ReplyDeleteOnly good thing in my life right now is a new cat... another rescue pulled from the streets just in the nick of time. She's beautiful and sweet and so grateful she makes me feel better when everything else fails.
I can certainly relate, when their's enough energy happening, to tidy up a bit around the house, helps how we feel about our environment.
ReplyDeleteWishing you to feel even better. Thank you for your kind comment on my posting. And don't remind be about laundry :)
Gary
It's great that you are feeling better! That doctor certainly did deserve a hug :)
ReplyDeleteMaybe cats do like feeling fancy. They're certainly arrogant enough to have that trait!
Perhaps Norbert was a Morris Dancer in a previous life? Glad to hear the doctor has adjusted your meds so that they're helping you now -- feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are feeling better!
ReplyDeletexo
I am really glad you are feeling better...it's always good to have a great doctor.
ReplyDeleteNorbert is a gorgeous kitty cat!
ReplyDeleteI hope he cuddles w/ you. x
I am glad you are feeling better. I think I need some bells, too.
ReplyDeleteI've always believed that breathing is good for you. I'm glad your doctor agrees.
ReplyDeleteI just recently read that some scientists trained dogs to go in an MRI so they could study the parts of the brain and how they reacted as compared to humans in regard to the "feeling" areas and discovered that dogs "feeling" areas light up like a child's for the same sort of things (Food, their loved ones etc)
I'm sure cats are the same too. I used to swear that my dogs always loved when a new tag was added to their collar and ran around jingling them.