Maybe we should listen to our wives when they have our best interests at heart

[smorris]

LOML spent the last week hounding me to go see the doctor about this cough and severe congestion. I had to leave work yesterday because i couldn't breathe very well and got to the doctors. I've never had a doc listen to my breathing and mutter WOW. Next stop EKG and chest X-ray. A stern look and "you have pneumonia, another day and I'd have to admit you". I'm guessing the note bilateral rales on my chart wasn't a good thing.

So, the wife is vindicated, I have amoxicillin and Tussenix for 2 weeks and a needle mark from a penicillin injection. No sawdust for the next couple weeks. Guess it's time for me to learn the CabinetCruncher software I bought and start laying out the kitchen cabinets. But first a nap...

I did say MAYBE.

[crokett]

Tussionex is some good stuff. I hope you feel better soon.

[conwaygolfer]

Seems like "mama knows best" is true.
Also "when mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy". Glad you listened to her. Be sure to take it all til its gone - even though you feel better.

Glenn

[Richard in Smithville]

Good thing you went when you did. Last year when I was getting some rough stomach cramps, LOML made me go to the doctor. Well, I ended up in the hospital getting I.V. drugs for diverticulitus. One more day and my colon could have ruptured!

Hope you get feeling better soon.

[Ed62]

Glad you took her advice. Now you can get better.

Ed

[cabinetman]

I've learned to pay attention to what my body tells me. Too bad I didn't do that 25 years ago.

LOML used to be a practicing nurse and keeps her certification current. Can you imagine what it's like combining the wifey thing with a nurse.
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[jackellis]

Can you imagine what it's like combining the wifey thing with a nurse.

My mother-in-law was a nurse. Now that she's 90 and starting to fail, she's driving LOML and the doctors nuts by self-diagnosing.

LOML sees her doctor at the slightest hint of a problem. I tend to wait until I'm sure I understand what my body is trying to tell me. I'm not sure I'll be able to keep doing that.

[MilDoc]

Sorry, but Tussionex (to stop a cough) is just plain stupid. the body tries to rid itself of the accumulated mucus etc. so, of course, you get prescribed a COUGH SUPPRESSANT. As a doc, makes absolutely NO sense to me. Like taking immodium to stop the "runs" that your body is trying to get rid of the infection to STOP the "runs."

if you have pneumonia, COUGH IS GOOD.

If you have infectious diarrhea, the DIARRHEA is good.

Or giving Tylenol to your child who has a temp of 101 and feels otherwise fine. Guess what? FEVER IS GOOD.

I've never understood why folks think "Mother Nature" doesn't know best.

If the cough keeps you awake at night, take a cough suppressant. Sleep is good. During the day, COUGH- get rid of the infectious material!!!!!!

[LinuxRandal]

LOML used to be a practicing nurse and keeps her certification current. Can you imagine what it's like combining the wifey thing with a nurse.
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Kinda like having a mom who is a RN as well. You get invited to eat, and she takes your blood pressure.

Or my grandfathers third wife (both gone now), who had her PHD in Nursing. I never knew whether to call her Nurse Dr. or Dr. Nurse.

[Wood_workur]

I've learned to pay attention to what my body tells me. Too bad I didn't do that 25 years ago.

LOML used to be a practicing nurse and keeps her certification current. Can you imagine what it's like combining the wifey thing with a nurse.
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I've found that it's not bad unless you are trying to eat and they want to tell a story.

But in general the knowledge comes in handy.

[smorris]

Sorry, but Tussionex (to stop a cough) is just plain stupid. the body tries to rid itself of the accumulated mucus etc. so, of course, you get prescribed a COUGH SUPPRESSANT. As a doc, makes absolutely NO sense to me. Like taking immodium to stop the "runs" that your body is trying to get rid of the infection to STOP the "runs."

if you have pneumonia, COUGH IS GOOD.

If you have infectious diarrhea, the DIARRHEA is good.

Or giving Tylenol to your child who has a temp of 101 and feels otherwise fine. Guess what? FEVER IS GOOD.

I've never understood why folks think "Mother Nature" doesn't know best.

If the cough keeps you awake at night, take a cough suppressant. Sleep is good. During the day, COUGH- get rid of the infectious material!!!!!!

That all makes perfect sense to me. I can't take the Tussenix at work anyway let alone drive here or back. I'm taking guafenesin and drinking lots of water to hopefully move some of this out. Everytime I go into a coughing jag and manage to get some of the stuff out I feel better for a little bit, until it get replaced.

I found last night that I can't take the cough medicine to help me sleep, hydrocodone and I have a special relationship...if I want to stay awake for the next 6 hours that'll do it so it probably will just sit in the medicine cabinet.

[cabinetman]

I've found that it's not bad unless you are trying to eat and they want to tell a story.

It's the other way around at our dinner table. We've had the "who can gross the other one out" game. I win. Nothing bothers me.
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