On My Deathbed?

[WhoDeySchenk]

At least that's how I've been feeling. I'm sick for the third time in 2 months. Finally decided to go to the Dr. Bronchitis....Prescribed me a 750mg antibiotic called Levaquin...took pill around 3:00 Wednesday...after a few hours I started feeling a bit weird. By 9:00 %*^$ hit the fan! I started getting disoriented, cold sweats, my hands and feet went completely numb. Obviously an allergic reaction to the meds. Called the emergency # for my Dr. No one called back, good thing that worked. Remembered my Uncle is a Pharmacist, I got a hold of him....he hates the medicine they put me on, has a lot of problems w/ it. He told me to drink lots of water and flush it out. By around 2:00am in the morning I woke up covered in sweat, the sheets were soaked...that makes falling back asleep fun. Then after drinking so much water I proceeded piss every hour or so till my wife woke up at 5:00. I got up started getting ready for work, wife calls and MAKES me stay home. She's so smart! So yesterday I was lounging, got some new meds, sucks because now I've had to pay for both prescriptions, BLAH. Then the wife comes home, (we're watching her parents dog) a wild one he is, she opens the door to let our dogs out, BOOM, he bolts out the door. GONE! He's the fastest dog I've seen in my life. Now it's in the teens here in Cincy, snow all over the ground, and a dog that has no idea where he is running all over god knows where. I put on my coat (meanwhile still sick as hell) and begin on a journey. After about 20 minutes I see him a block or so away, just when I think I've cornered him....runs right by me. He's 2 block running down the middle of the street in rush hour traffic. My wife passed me in the car looking for him....after walking for 45 minutes I give up, and am hacking up a lung. About 15 minutes later she comes home.....DOG IN CAR. Seems she saw him 2 miles from our house, got out ran after him for a while, lost him. Got back in the car drove around, saw him again....he ran right up to the car, she opens the door and he jumps right in. I NEED A DRINK....no go with antibiotics and bronchitis.

[Chas]

Don't you just love it when the female in your life says "Don't worry, it's ONLY MAN-FLU".

Regards

Chas

[Bugbear]

Hope you get better now.

[cessna152towser]

Get well soon!!

[Riverkilt]

Lets comiserate....its all over the canyonlands and thought I'd avoided it...the crud gained a beach head in my throat a few days ago...fought back, it attacked with vengence last night. Can't talk this morning...called in sick - though clients would probably appreciate a silent therapist...

Wish I'd saved it - years ago read an article about a guy who let his dog run, but would follow him. He found the dog ran NINE miles out before he came home. And each day the dog would go a different direction, but always run about nine mile out before turning for home.

So, if you're ever looking for a lost dog again just draw a nine mile radius circle around the spot you lost the dog....

Course, around here, small lost dogs soon turn into coyote poo.

Ron

[Kerr the Walker]

I feel your pain brother. Woke up two days ago feeling like I'd been hit by a bus. Work has the "terrorists don't take sick days" mentality so in I go. Tried to leave early today to find HAZMAT guys have cordoned off the building. No one in or out. Great

Sounds like you got a few drams of the good stuff comin your way when you get the all clear. Here's hoping it gets there quick.

[Rex_Tremende]

Steve, sorry you're under the weather. I'm not a doctor, so I have no advice for you there. I can tell you, having owned a few dogs in my lifetime so far that the trick to getting a dog back is usually not running after them, but catching their eye and running away from them. You have to let them catch you!

Get well soon,
R.

[WhoDeySchenk]

Thanks everyone for kind words. Rex...you just don't know my inlaw's dog! LOL he is the craziest dog I've seen in my entire life. He has run away more times than I can count. I know when we watch him he's gotten away 4 times. The other bad time was at Voice of America park Rush Hour traffic on Butler Warren and Tylersville...he was gone for almost 2 hours, I finally cornered him by a fence.

For me....this evening I'm feeling a tad better than the last 2 days. At least I have the weekend to do nothing but relax.

[WClarkB]

The sweats may be due to your fever falling (from the effects of the levoquin on your infection) rather than the effect of the levoquin itself. The timing is more appropriate and it is not a common effect of the drug.
I have a certain affection for it however as it treated me well and rapidly for a pneumonia I had while I was in the bush of Ghana recently.

[GDub]

Amongst the people I know who've had it it's called "THE COUGH!" I first got THE COUGH during my 2 week holiday vacation, then I caught it AGAIN about 10 days ago. Fortunately, it finally seems to be going away... so there's hope!

FTR, I hadn't had a cold in 5 years and this nasty bugger hooked me twice!