From: Gaelyne Gasson 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:21, Bob Lawrence wrote:
> GG> A few weeks ago, I had bronchitis and went to the doctor and
> GG> got antibiotics and he gave me an Xray slip for the following
> GG> week in case I didn't come good. Just my luck, that when I
> GG> finished up the antibiotics, both Rod and I came down with a
> GG> nasty case of the flu. I swear I'm still getting over it.
> 
>  Aha! Exactly the same happened to me. I've had a shocking month.
> First I got bronchitis, then larangytis before the GP put me on
> antibiotics. It cleared up thebronchitis like magic, my voice came
> back...just in time to get the 'flu! A really hard dry cough that left
> my chest muscles sore... and to cap it all I had an attack of gout.
> 
>  Bloody hell! I'm still coughing.

Maybe you broke a few ribs coughing?  Apparently that's what all my
tests have shown, two ribs in a row.  If they weren't in a row, they'd
be telling me the BC spread to the bones, and in fact I have some follow
up tests in a few months, but cancer is sneaky and very random. It
wouldn't pick two ribs in the same spot.  So I have broken ribs. It
sucks!!

I still have a bit of laryngitis but I think that has to do with
strength to speak, and I don't do a lot of talking anyway. I only notice
it when we have guests. 

> GG> My doctor (the BC one) did stress that the shadow seen was very
> GG> subtle, so subtle in fact that the first tech who read my xrays
> GG> and did the first report didn't notice it. So this all really
> GG> could be a nothing, and same with the bone scan. They're
> GG> playing it safe.
> 
>  Medicare turns a nice profit for them once they've got you. The GP
> sent me off for a chest X-Ray too. I don't mind tests. I have faith in
> specialists being able to find things... or nothing. Unless it's
> absolutely clear, they just send you off for more tests...

Yair, in my case, a CT scan and a bone scan.

> 
> GG> I've been taking codiene stuff the last few weeks for the pain,
> GG> and have only gradually worked my way to taking two of the over
> GG> the counter Extra Strength Panadols every 4hrs and wish I had
> GG> sooner (was trying to avoid taking too much of the codiene
> GG> stuff).
> 
>  Yair. He put me on codeine-stuff too, and it did stop the cough but
> it wiped me right out! And destroyed what little appetite I had left.
> Codeine sucks. 

No effect on my appetite at all.  Sadly!  STill on it though. Or back on
it. Had been easing off but I moved wrong and it's back as bad as it had
been again.

> GG> muscles repairing themselves from my recent bout of the flu
> GG> (first I've had since radiation).

Radiation apparently has made my rib bones very weak and brittle. Bloody
hell, I have a whole list of crappy things radiation treatment does. Yet
they use it to make people with bone cancer feel less pain. I don't get
it.


>  I have the same thing, sore all the way down the sides. I did have
> hopes that I might develop a washboard belly, but all I've got is sore
> fat and a hacking cough.

Well if misery loves company, we're a great pair.


> GG> Scary stuff. If it's not nothing, it's either lung cancer or
> GG> mets to the lungs from the breast cancer.
> 
>  I got the same... it's not catching over the BBS, is it? I even
> coughed a spot of blood, but the X-Ray said the lungs were clear. I'll
> know for sure in 6 months... lung cancer is quick.

True.  Still 6 months is a long time of feeling crap, isn't it?

>  This year's flu seems to be an utter bastard. And I had the anti-flu
> needle too! Has it ruined your appetite? I've been living on bloody
> eggs and milkshakes.

Nope, I wish. You can't bottle that 'not hungry' feeling, but if you
could, you'd make a fortune.


Cheers,
Gaelyne
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