My cold in the mountains just kept getting worse.\u00c2\u00a0 I was burning through kleenex and cough drops, and had lost my voice completely.\u00c2\u00a0 I injected my IFN, and in a panicked moment after a sleepless night of chills and with an excruciatingly painful sore throat I decided to fly home a day early.\u00c2\u00a0 I made some frantic phone calls to the front desk, the airport shuttle and and the airline.\u00c2\u00a0 I made the decision yesterday at 6am, and was on the shuttle to the airport at 730.<\/p>\n
By the time I got home it was even worse.\u00c2\u00a0 My Dad called and insisted I call my primary care physician and get some antibiotics.\u00c2\u00a0 The Dr. on call (it was 9pm on Friday) at first was hesitant to proscribe anything, because he was concerned that I might be immuno-surpressed from the IFN.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t had any bloodwork in over a month, so I couldn’t tell him for sure.\u00c2\u00a0 In the end he wrote for antibiotics and some codeine cough syrup.<\/p>\n
The codeine helped immediately, and it seems like the antibiotics are helping today.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m feeling better.\u00c2\u00a0 Still up and down.\u00c2\u00a0 Throat still super painful swallowing.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday I felt so bad that anything feels better.<\/p>\n
I definitely need to go see the dr next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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