I almost cancelled my appointment for this morning thinking my cough and right sided pain was getting better on it's own. I'm glad I didn't because I found out that I have pneumonia along with a pulled muscle under my ribs from coughing. Apparently, I've been walking around with this for weeks - I even ran on the treadmill yesterday although I was frustrated that I felt sluggish and couldn't maintain my pace. Well, at least now I know why.
I'm a little down about this because the last comment my provider (who I love and really respect) made before I left was, "You really need to slow down". That almost brought me to tears because while I would love to, how am I supposed to slow down??? The cooking, dishes, & laundry still need to be done, my children and husband still need me, there are 90 third year pharmacy students starting back the semester next week expecting their instructor to be ready to go, and we are supposed to go skiing this weekend so we can spend time with friends and so my sweet girl can put on skis for the first time and my older boy can improve from last year - they are both really looking forward to it - how can I slow down?
Sigh...this too shall pass and hopefully in a week or so once the antibiotic has done it's job I won't need to slow down - that's the hope anyway. :)
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