Wow, you really put us through the ringer with this one! I find medical mysteries like this fascinating, if grueling.
Several years ago, I started having difficulty breathing. It felt like I had been exercising in a smoggy environment all day, and it became increasingly difficult to take deep breaths. None of my doctors could figure out the cause. I did tons of tests, and they still had no clue. My endocrinologist guessed I might have COPD, but that made no sense since I’ve never smoked or been around smokers.
Every day, my condition worsened, and I was desperate to figure out the cause. I ended up researching *every* single lung condition and respiratory illness until I finally alighted on the cause: hypersensitivity pneumonitis, specifically bird fanciers’ lung.
For nine years, we had shared our apartment with two pet starlings we adopted when they were orphaned as fledglings. So what changed? It turns out I had started developing an acute case of HP within 24–48 hours of getting my tetanus shot. Every breath hurt, and I was running a high fever. I stayed in bed for about a day and a half, which I NEVER do. Even when I have a migraine, I keep working, but I was too weak from being unable to breathe. The acute episode passed, but I was left with that smoggy lung feeling, which took months for me to diagnose.
One of my doctors told me I was a genius for figuring it out, and my endocrinologist said I would have to vacate the apartment immediately because the antigens permeated everything and could not be avoided (although I was wearing a P100 respirator assembly 24/7, which likely contributed to my problems, I now realize in retrospect). I had to relocate to my mom’s house while we looked for a new place to live.
My lungs gradually improved with extended avoidance of the antigens, thankfully. By the time I was finally able to see a pulmonologist, he confirmed what I already knew. He said moving out when I did likely saved my life as HP progresses to pulmonary fibrosis, which is fatal with a 3–5-year life expectancy.
Fortunately, we were able to set up a birdhouse in the back yard of our new place, so we didn’t have to give up our babies (which are the subject of one of my unfinished books ;-) I just have to avoid going in there and limit myself to interaction through the video monitor.
It wasn’t until the past couple of years that I put the puzzle pieces together and realized it was likely triggered by a vaxx injury.
Wow! That is a very specific thing and kudus for being able to self diagnose it! I have seen one or two times where somebody with an inexplicable health problem got better by moving in one case it was a friend with migraine headaches. She never figured out what the original trigger in her old house was (mold or something?). I've suggested to people with inexplicable long term medical conditions to relocate but you are the first I know of to determine what the absolute trigger was and to move in advance of it. It's a complicated field...
Yes, mold is always a potential factor as well. I remember reading a book called “Mold: The War Within” written by Hurricane Katrina survivors (many of whom were exposed to mold) during that period.
those folks in FEMA buildings also got a lot of exposure to industrial chemicals used to treat or produce the materials in the new buildings. l, causing numerous other health issues.
My wife and I have had two children since 2019. We chose not to get the COVID19 treatment, I don't think I need to get into the particulars of the nightmare that led to dealing with the ever changing hospital rules. At one point, it seemed that a home birth was the only option as it wasn't clear the hospital would allow me to attend the birth of my child. As it was, for both births only the spouse was allowed entry, which luckily suited our birthing plans just fine. However, at every visit to the birthing center there was inevitably grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other friends and family crowded in lawn chairs outside the window of occupied rooms, attending a birth in the only manner in which they were permitted.
The most harrowing and frustrating time during these two pregnancies was when my wife fell chronically ill with a wracking cough while pregnant with our second child. This cough persisted for months, caused her significant pain, and prevented her (and myself frankly) from sleeping. Naturally, "per policy" this invalidated her from seeking care from her OB and forget checkups on the baby. Our attempts to seek medical help from other centers were all the same. She would be told that she probably had COVID, to submit a test, and to remove herself from the facility until the test result came back several days hence. Invariably, the test would come back negative - and THEN they would inform her that due to her COVID-like symptoms they couldn't offer any help and to seek assistance from her OB instead! Due to "COVID policy" a pregnant woman was universally denied medical treatment. I hold quite a lot of hatred for the "medical community". May they all receive their just deserts.
That's awful. Me and my new husband were trying for a baby but I never tried to find out what might be causing my infertility because of the nightmare stories I was hearing of pregnant women and Covid protocols. Plus I can't even wear a facemask. It's good that you were able to navigate that nightmare and get through it all in one piece...God Bless you and your family...
Thank you! We were lucky. In the end, we were just lucky becausei if something more serious had happened I know we would not have received the help we needed.
A friend of mine has a far more harrowing story. Their very young child started exhibiting symptoms superficially resembling severe COVID just as the disease was first making widespread landfall in the US. It seemed as if this child may be one of the first severe pediatric cases in the US. The medical establishment held nothing back in attempting to cure this child - until they discovered they could not definitively show that the child actually had COVID.
After which the family was regularly informed that treatment of the child's chronic illness would have to be postponed until his COVID-like symptoms subsided. Per policy.
Insane. Have a Covid like illness and a positive test? We'll put you on a ventilator and isolate you from your family. Have a Covid like illness and a negative test? We can't treat you at all...
While this is compelling narrative, it definitely doesn't square with my personal experience.
I'm 40 and have not had even one "miracle" experience with modern medicine. Maybe if I'd also had 3 personal anecdotes I'd feel differently. The best I can reference are those times when they didn't harm me, but helped me arrive at a likely diagnosis or answer on a mystery symptom.
Also can't say I've observed any miraculous life-saving interactions for family members. To the contrary, I feel more family members have been victims of or killed by modern medical interventions/drugs/hospitals. I've heard a few acquaintances or randos say that such and such drug saved their life or that they had a successful surgery or praise an episode of medical care as higher quality than they would have expected, but these are people for whom I don't have intimate contact or detailed health knowledge. I remain skeptical.
You are welcome to remain skeptical! I've had bad experiences in the sense that they didn't really find anything I'm grateful I haven't had any nightmare experiences where some protocol clearly made things worse. I'd have to guess that is true of a lot of people...
I went for a blood test at a local free clinic near the beginning of the year.
they insisted on running a whole bunch of diagnostic tests in addition to the one I needed. just because I haven't been to a medic since 2007 when I had a work-related accident 🤣
the testing was on their dime, and they'd already be able to do whatever gods-know-what unholy sampling and recording of my code with the single sample, so I went along with it. looked like they took a whole public school lunch milk carton worth out of my arm by the end, but I just skipped work and rested after.
so the main thing I was surprised about was that they ran a vitamin D test, saying most people in the area were deficient.
since I actually get a decent amount of sun and don't usually eat too much horrid corporate pre prepared food, my D levels were well within acceptable tolerances.
mostly I was surprised that they were testing the vitamin D levels as that doesn't seem like common knowledge among the medical establishment.
they also barely prodded about the Safe and Effective™ substances and calmly accepted my uninjected status and refusal to modify it.
overall it was a shockingly efficient and functional medic visit.
I was really surprised when my Mom's roommate told me that the VA had run his vitamin D levels too. It's such a simple thing but they seemed to dumb to acknowledge it for so long. Perhaps it's a sign that things can be changed from within...
Interesting that the first round of antibiotics seemed to do you some good, then the bad one swooped out and got you later — Did the first round basically act like a filter? Wipe out all the competition so the more brutal bug had wide open spaces to take over?
I'm going to guess it was something like that. I rarely take antibiotics and I know they wipe out good bacterial flora that keeps things in balance. At the time though with all of the travelling, personal drama, it being Christmas, being in Ohio, family stuff, usually drinking too much beer most nights I wasn't really on top of that at all. It had gone away and I had other things to deal with. The good doctor who found the connection told me something else on the phone: that night after I threw up the first time I was getting some very loose stools, so I had taken Immodium anti diarrhea medicine. She said for e-coli THIS WAS THE WORST THING I COULD HAVE DONE as it was already in my intestines and had to purge with a night on the toilet. Hindsight is always 20/20 but a good thing to note for someone who might suspect food poisoning...
This is a magnificent post and really gets to the core issue of trust in medicine.
I have also had my life saved (with a surgical procedure), and I have also determined that I almost certainly was vax-injured as a child. It's the only thing that makes sense given my very robust health from adulthood on contrasted with my dire childhood periods of illness, all bronchial and asthma related.
I theorize that pro management class types who have access to healthcare have (or had) a built in trust that many working class or poor people with no access simply do not have in the medical profession.
There's a fascinating psychological aspect to medical care that I am going to call the Hollywood effect: in short people who work in hospitals want to think of themselves as the heroes featured in any number of TV drama series, and therefor are more likely to play that role and give good care if the patient also is attractive. If you've been around a hospital in America you realize quickly that the real people seeking care rarely look like the actors on some show like ER, House, et cetera. Many are old and fat and not biologically fit, hence them being in a hospital. I think some of the discriminatory care on Covid (higher death rates for old, then obese, then minorities) is based on this...
A parody might do wonders to deconstruct the unconscious propaganda that has been built up around healthcare. Not a single one of those shows is seriously critical of anything they do there. But knowing some people who work in the industry you hear some darker things about the frequent flyers and the drug seekers, the hypochondriacs, the naked dementia patient over there playing with himself. It sounds like a nuthouse of death and these people are just going through the pressure cooker trying to keep sane. Now add in the administrative billing coders...
I believe I was vax injured from my 18 year old shots prior to going to college. I never put it together at the time but I had several years where I was always had weird health issues: a kidney infection at 19, pink eye, menstrual irregularities, chicken pox despite being vaccinated for it, lots of colds and flu bugs et cetera. It's more common than you think...
So sick as a kid in a few autoimmune areas. So healthy and strong otherwise. Winning PE contests, always wanting to run and play and so frustrated that I couldn't breathe.
Hi Amy. I am just curious: which antibitotic did they end up giving you? ...Cipro? And how long of a course of it did it take to get rid of the e-coli?
Cipro sounds familiar it seems they ended up giving me something else later with a really odd name I can't quite remember. The first course was only supposed to be 5 days if I remember but it seems I had to go through 2 total. It didn't just suddenly resolve as much as my body slowly learned how to control it into a new normal. It lingered into months of flare ups...
Yikes! The reason I am asking is a friend of mine just returned from a trip to Thailand and Laos, and is having stomach aches, diarrhea, etc. She did consume a fair amount of shrimps and shellfish over there ( she loves seafood! ). Fortunately, I remembered your story — thank you! — and just found a 2022 paper talking about the kinds of antibiotics working best against these Asian shrimp e-coli strains. The two winners being: 1) ciprofloxacin, and 2) levofloxacin. Note: She was prescribed Azithromycin this morning, but, according to the paper, 5 out 6 bacteria strains are resistant against it! Her doctor didn't make the connection to her trip.
Excerpt from the paper:
"Most of the bacteria were susceptible to ciprofloxacin; only P. alimentorum was weakly resistant. Ciprofloxacin is widely used in shrimp farming for the control of gram-negative bacteria including enteric pathogens such as Pseudomonas and in some cases gram-positive bacteria. Overall, the results are positive from a human and animal health perspective that most of the bacteria would be susceptible to ciprofloxacin, but the two isolates showing AMR or intermediate resistance are a concern."
Source:
Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Shrimp and Shrimp Farms of Bangladesh
Wow! Good luck to her! I hope she is able to nip it and I'm so glad if my story helped her see something that her doctors wouldn't have connected. It took me a few weeks and I got lucky to find one who put it together. Hopefully the experience makes it a much easier road!
I can't love that enough. If any follow on advice is needed let me know maybe I'll even try to dig up my old records of prescriptions. None were great so I hope she doesn't have it as bad as I did. Oh but one thing I was told by the doctor after she figured it out was NEVER take an anti diarrhea medicine for this because apparently it makes it much more likely you will throw it up which is more dangerous. That is assuming it is the same thing I had...hope she clears it quick!
Yep. I read your past comment re. not taking Imodium: got to get rid of as much of it as possible. I'll ask her about it when I drop by later. She was dehydrated today from having had diarrhea all night, apparently, and she was burping all day yesterday ( note: she's only been back from Thailand a week ago, and her stomach's been sensitive since her return ). Her husband said he has some cipro lying around; they'll check again with their PCP tomorrow. Thank you for trying to dig up your old records, if you can; any info will help.
I have told everyone to avoid hospitals unless you are at deaths door, but that is the way I have always thought. Thankfully my family is unjabbed and so far no one has needed medical care (knock on wood) except for my uncle for an unrelated heart condition. He didn't say anything too critical but his health is not great...
I've worried about that with him but he has a medical exemption due to a mitral valve propose in his heart. Generally he's talked up the care he has received. I'm skeptical because he seems in worse general health. It's one I won't blame on jabs though that is its own type of nightmare story I've heard about...
Wow, you really put us through the ringer with this one! I find medical mysteries like this fascinating, if grueling.
Several years ago, I started having difficulty breathing. It felt like I had been exercising in a smoggy environment all day, and it became increasingly difficult to take deep breaths. None of my doctors could figure out the cause. I did tons of tests, and they still had no clue. My endocrinologist guessed I might have COPD, but that made no sense since I’ve never smoked or been around smokers.
Every day, my condition worsened, and I was desperate to figure out the cause. I ended up researching *every* single lung condition and respiratory illness until I finally alighted on the cause: hypersensitivity pneumonitis, specifically bird fanciers’ lung.
For nine years, we had shared our apartment with two pet starlings we adopted when they were orphaned as fledglings. So what changed? It turns out I had started developing an acute case of HP within 24–48 hours of getting my tetanus shot. Every breath hurt, and I was running a high fever. I stayed in bed for about a day and a half, which I NEVER do. Even when I have a migraine, I keep working, but I was too weak from being unable to breathe. The acute episode passed, but I was left with that smoggy lung feeling, which took months for me to diagnose.
One of my doctors told me I was a genius for figuring it out, and my endocrinologist said I would have to vacate the apartment immediately because the antigens permeated everything and could not be avoided (although I was wearing a P100 respirator assembly 24/7, which likely contributed to my problems, I now realize in retrospect). I had to relocate to my mom’s house while we looked for a new place to live.
My lungs gradually improved with extended avoidance of the antigens, thankfully. By the time I was finally able to see a pulmonologist, he confirmed what I already knew. He said moving out when I did likely saved my life as HP progresses to pulmonary fibrosis, which is fatal with a 3–5-year life expectancy.
Fortunately, we were able to set up a birdhouse in the back yard of our new place, so we didn’t have to give up our babies (which are the subject of one of my unfinished books ;-) I just have to avoid going in there and limit myself to interaction through the video monitor.
It wasn’t until the past couple of years that I put the puzzle pieces together and realized it was likely triggered by a vaxx injury.
Wow! That is a very specific thing and kudus for being able to self diagnose it! I have seen one or two times where somebody with an inexplicable health problem got better by moving in one case it was a friend with migraine headaches. She never figured out what the original trigger in her old house was (mold or something?). I've suggested to people with inexplicable long term medical conditions to relocate but you are the first I know of to determine what the absolute trigger was and to move in advance of it. It's a complicated field...
Yes, mold is always a potential factor as well. I remember reading a book called “Mold: The War Within” written by Hurricane Katrina survivors (many of whom were exposed to mold) during that period.
those folks in FEMA buildings also got a lot of exposure to industrial chemicals used to treat or produce the materials in the new buildings. l, causing numerous other health issues.
mold is certainly nutty stuff though
My wife and I have had two children since 2019. We chose not to get the COVID19 treatment, I don't think I need to get into the particulars of the nightmare that led to dealing with the ever changing hospital rules. At one point, it seemed that a home birth was the only option as it wasn't clear the hospital would allow me to attend the birth of my child. As it was, for both births only the spouse was allowed entry, which luckily suited our birthing plans just fine. However, at every visit to the birthing center there was inevitably grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other friends and family crowded in lawn chairs outside the window of occupied rooms, attending a birth in the only manner in which they were permitted.
The most harrowing and frustrating time during these two pregnancies was when my wife fell chronically ill with a wracking cough while pregnant with our second child. This cough persisted for months, caused her significant pain, and prevented her (and myself frankly) from sleeping. Naturally, "per policy" this invalidated her from seeking care from her OB and forget checkups on the baby. Our attempts to seek medical help from other centers were all the same. She would be told that she probably had COVID, to submit a test, and to remove herself from the facility until the test result came back several days hence. Invariably, the test would come back negative - and THEN they would inform her that due to her COVID-like symptoms they couldn't offer any help and to seek assistance from her OB instead! Due to "COVID policy" a pregnant woman was universally denied medical treatment. I hold quite a lot of hatred for the "medical community". May they all receive their just deserts.
That's awful. Me and my new husband were trying for a baby but I never tried to find out what might be causing my infertility because of the nightmare stories I was hearing of pregnant women and Covid protocols. Plus I can't even wear a facemask. It's good that you were able to navigate that nightmare and get through it all in one piece...God Bless you and your family...
Thank you! We were lucky. In the end, we were just lucky becausei if something more serious had happened I know we would not have received the help we needed.
A friend of mine has a far more harrowing story. Their very young child started exhibiting symptoms superficially resembling severe COVID just as the disease was first making widespread landfall in the US. It seemed as if this child may be one of the first severe pediatric cases in the US. The medical establishment held nothing back in attempting to cure this child - until they discovered they could not definitively show that the child actually had COVID.
After which the family was regularly informed that treatment of the child's chronic illness would have to be postponed until his COVID-like symptoms subsided. Per policy.
Insane. Have a Covid like illness and a positive test? We'll put you on a ventilator and isolate you from your family. Have a Covid like illness and a negative test? We can't treat you at all...
While this is compelling narrative, it definitely doesn't square with my personal experience.
I'm 40 and have not had even one "miracle" experience with modern medicine. Maybe if I'd also had 3 personal anecdotes I'd feel differently. The best I can reference are those times when they didn't harm me, but helped me arrive at a likely diagnosis or answer on a mystery symptom.
Also can't say I've observed any miraculous life-saving interactions for family members. To the contrary, I feel more family members have been victims of or killed by modern medical interventions/drugs/hospitals. I've heard a few acquaintances or randos say that such and such drug saved their life or that they had a successful surgery or praise an episode of medical care as higher quality than they would have expected, but these are people for whom I don't have intimate contact or detailed health knowledge. I remain skeptical.
You are welcome to remain skeptical! I've had bad experiences in the sense that they didn't really find anything I'm grateful I haven't had any nightmare experiences where some protocol clearly made things worse. I'd have to guess that is true of a lot of people...
Yikes! At that point I would have yanked the thing out myself if they didn't!
It's crazy they would do that my question remains why? As punishment for being unjabbed or something?
I went for a blood test at a local free clinic near the beginning of the year.
they insisted on running a whole bunch of diagnostic tests in addition to the one I needed. just because I haven't been to a medic since 2007 when I had a work-related accident 🤣
the testing was on their dime, and they'd already be able to do whatever gods-know-what unholy sampling and recording of my code with the single sample, so I went along with it. looked like they took a whole public school lunch milk carton worth out of my arm by the end, but I just skipped work and rested after.
so the main thing I was surprised about was that they ran a vitamin D test, saying most people in the area were deficient.
since I actually get a decent amount of sun and don't usually eat too much horrid corporate pre prepared food, my D levels were well within acceptable tolerances.
mostly I was surprised that they were testing the vitamin D levels as that doesn't seem like common knowledge among the medical establishment.
they also barely prodded about the Safe and Effective™ substances and calmly accepted my uninjected status and refusal to modify it.
overall it was a shockingly efficient and functional medic visit.
I was really surprised when my Mom's roommate told me that the VA had run his vitamin D levels too. It's such a simple thing but they seemed to dumb to acknowledge it for so long. Perhaps it's a sign that things can be changed from within...
I was so captivated by your story, I forgot to thank you for the shoutout, Amy!
You're very welcome I enjoyed your post as well!
Interesting that the first round of antibiotics seemed to do you some good, then the bad one swooped out and got you later — Did the first round basically act like a filter? Wipe out all the competition so the more brutal bug had wide open spaces to take over?
I'm going to guess it was something like that. I rarely take antibiotics and I know they wipe out good bacterial flora that keeps things in balance. At the time though with all of the travelling, personal drama, it being Christmas, being in Ohio, family stuff, usually drinking too much beer most nights I wasn't really on top of that at all. It had gone away and I had other things to deal with. The good doctor who found the connection told me something else on the phone: that night after I threw up the first time I was getting some very loose stools, so I had taken Immodium anti diarrhea medicine. She said for e-coli THIS WAS THE WORST THING I COULD HAVE DONE as it was already in my intestines and had to purge with a night on the toilet. Hindsight is always 20/20 but a good thing to note for someone who might suspect food poisoning...
This is a magnificent post and really gets to the core issue of trust in medicine.
I have also had my life saved (with a surgical procedure), and I have also determined that I almost certainly was vax-injured as a child. It's the only thing that makes sense given my very robust health from adulthood on contrasted with my dire childhood periods of illness, all bronchial and asthma related.
I theorize that pro management class types who have access to healthcare have (or had) a built in trust that many working class or poor people with no access simply do not have in the medical profession.
There's a fascinating psychological aspect to medical care that I am going to call the Hollywood effect: in short people who work in hospitals want to think of themselves as the heroes featured in any number of TV drama series, and therefor are more likely to play that role and give good care if the patient also is attractive. If you've been around a hospital in America you realize quickly that the real people seeking care rarely look like the actors on some show like ER, House, et cetera. Many are old and fat and not biologically fit, hence them being in a hospital. I think some of the discriminatory care on Covid (higher death rates for old, then obese, then minorities) is based on this...
This has the makings of a good teleplay!
You are so amazing, you come up with stuff that I could never imagine and it's magical.
A parody might do wonders to deconstruct the unconscious propaganda that has been built up around healthcare. Not a single one of those shows is seriously critical of anything they do there. But knowing some people who work in the industry you hear some darker things about the frequent flyers and the drug seekers, the hypochondriacs, the naked dementia patient over there playing with himself. It sounds like a nuthouse of death and these people are just going through the pressure cooker trying to keep sane. Now add in the administrative billing coders...
I believe I was vax injured from my 18 year old shots prior to going to college. I never put it together at the time but I had several years where I was always had weird health issues: a kidney infection at 19, pink eye, menstrual irregularities, chicken pox despite being vaccinated for it, lots of colds and flu bugs et cetera. It's more common than you think...
Mine is like Smoking Gun obvious upon review.
It hit me when I watched Vaxxed-2.
So sick as a kid in a few autoimmune areas. So healthy and strong otherwise. Winning PE contests, always wanting to run and play and so frustrated that I couldn't breathe.
And then in adulthood, strong as an ox.
Hi Amy. I am just curious: which antibitotic did they end up giving you? ...Cipro? And how long of a course of it did it take to get rid of the e-coli?
Cipro sounds familiar it seems they ended up giving me something else later with a really odd name I can't quite remember. The first course was only supposed to be 5 days if I remember but it seems I had to go through 2 total. It didn't just suddenly resolve as much as my body slowly learned how to control it into a new normal. It lingered into months of flare ups...
Yikes! The reason I am asking is a friend of mine just returned from a trip to Thailand and Laos, and is having stomach aches, diarrhea, etc. She did consume a fair amount of shrimps and shellfish over there ( she loves seafood! ). Fortunately, I remembered your story — thank you! — and just found a 2022 paper talking about the kinds of antibiotics working best against these Asian shrimp e-coli strains. The two winners being: 1) ciprofloxacin, and 2) levofloxacin. Note: She was prescribed Azithromycin this morning, but, according to the paper, 5 out 6 bacteria strains are resistant against it! Her doctor didn't make the connection to her trip.
Excerpt from the paper:
"Most of the bacteria were susceptible to ciprofloxacin; only P. alimentorum was weakly resistant. Ciprofloxacin is widely used in shrimp farming for the control of gram-negative bacteria including enteric pathogens such as Pseudomonas and in some cases gram-positive bacteria. Overall, the results are positive from a human and animal health perspective that most of the bacteria would be susceptible to ciprofloxacin, but the two isolates showing AMR or intermediate resistance are a concern."
Source:
Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Shrimp and Shrimp Farms of Bangladesh
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/14/19/3172/pdf
Wow! Good luck to her! I hope she is able to nip it and I'm so glad if my story helped her see something that her doctors wouldn't have connected. It took me a few weeks and I got lucky to find one who put it together. Hopefully the experience makes it a much easier road!
Thank you, Amy!!! ...Saved by substack! ☺
I can't love that enough. If any follow on advice is needed let me know maybe I'll even try to dig up my old records of prescriptions. None were great so I hope she doesn't have it as bad as I did. Oh but one thing I was told by the doctor after she figured it out was NEVER take an anti diarrhea medicine for this because apparently it makes it much more likely you will throw it up which is more dangerous. That is assuming it is the same thing I had...hope she clears it quick!
Yep. I read your past comment re. not taking Imodium: got to get rid of as much of it as possible. I'll ask her about it when I drop by later. She was dehydrated today from having had diarrhea all night, apparently, and she was burping all day yesterday ( note: she's only been back from Thailand a week ago, and her stomach's been sensitive since her return ). Her husband said he has some cipro lying around; they'll check again with their PCP tomorrow. Thank you for trying to dig up your old records, if you can; any info will help.
Good story. Happy to hear that you made it through .
Remember to get up from the keyboard often...... and go out walking with the chickens.
Health is wealth
I have told everyone to avoid hospitals unless you are at deaths door, but that is the way I have always thought. Thankfully my family is unjabbed and so far no one has needed medical care (knock on wood) except for my uncle for an unrelated heart condition. He didn't say anything too critical but his health is not great...
I've worried about that with him but he has a medical exemption due to a mitral valve propose in his heart. Generally he's talked up the care he has received. I'm skeptical because he seems in worse general health. It's one I won't blame on jabs though that is its own type of nightmare story I've heard about...