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(originally posted to Diaryland.com, 2003-11-20 - 2:20 p.m.)
The walk-in clinic doctor (the same one who prescribed the antibiotic for me twelve days ago) took one look at me, listened to my symptoms, concluded that I have a viral infection, and ordered a chest x-ray and a blood test for hemo and white blood cell count. Not so much as a touch of the stethescope and a "hmmm"... if there are any bad results, he'll get in touch with me. He didn't see much point in any more antibiotics. I'm pretty sure the chest x-ray won't show up anything since my cough has been dry and unproductive, but we'll see what we shall see.
He also ordered a copy of the results sent to Dr. T, my regular physician, who in spite of rumors of a nervous breakdown might actually be back this coming Monday after three and a half weeks away from his office.
The walk-in clinic doc wrote out a slip for Ipsos-Reid basically stating that yes, I'd been ill since October 27th and was expected to be off work until November 27th. I took it in to the I-R Human Resources office, waved the chest x-ray form at them to reinforce that no, I'm NOT malingering, and scheduled my oral Level 3 test for December 1st, by which time I should be back at work. They've been more than fair about all this, which I greatly appreciate, believe me.
In the meantime, I'm at home painting in Photoshop, where I can hack up my lungs as much as I like without interfering too much in the workflow.
The walk-in clinic doctor (the same one who prescribed the antibiotic for me twelve days ago) took one look at me, listened to my symptoms, concluded that I have a viral infection, and ordered a chest x-ray and a blood test for hemo and white blood cell count. Not so much as a touch of the stethescope and a "hmmm"... if there are any bad results, he'll get in touch with me. He didn't see much point in any more antibiotics. I'm pretty sure the chest x-ray won't show up anything since my cough has been dry and unproductive, but we'll see what we shall see.
He also ordered a copy of the results sent to Dr. T, my regular physician, who in spite of rumors of a nervous breakdown might actually be back this coming Monday after three and a half weeks away from his office.
The walk-in clinic doc wrote out a slip for Ipsos-Reid basically stating that yes, I'd been ill since October 27th and was expected to be off work until November 27th. I took it in to the I-R Human Resources office, waved the chest x-ray form at them to reinforce that no, I'm NOT malingering, and scheduled my oral Level 3 test for December 1st, by which time I should be back at work. They've been more than fair about all this, which I greatly appreciate, believe me.
In the meantime, I'm at home painting in Photoshop, where I can hack up my lungs as much as I like without interfering too much in the workflow.
