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Chinniechantel
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So, everyone knows I have been having tough luck with my chins lately, but now it is with me! I have had pnemonia for the past week and my idiot doctor gave me amoxicillin (Sp?) which did nothing, so I have been coughing like crazy for weeks. Last week I felt this horrible chest pain, right under my right breast. Sharp, stabbing pain that never went away and got MUCH worse if I coughed or moved.
So off to urgent care I go. They diagnose it as Costrocondritis- basically broken cartilage (the top few maybe 5 ribs are actually not bone, but cartilage). It had to be caused from the coughing because I have not had any injuries or anything. So, they gave me a nice shot in the butt :wacko: and a pharmacy of meds. Steroids, good antibiotics to cure the pnemonia so I stop making the rib worse, cough pills, and pain meds. It should get better if I am careful in about 3-6 weeks. Youch. So now I am in a lot of pain without major pain meds, but can't exactly be drafting legal documents for the grand jury doped up! So at work I just take a lot of ibuprofen and try not to move a lot, but sheesh, is this bad luck going to end soon? :tissue:
On a good note- they new job is going great, and I love being an attorney. The total 20 years of schooling to get there is worth it (kindergarden counts! naptime was tough!) I love working in the corporate world and am beginning to start to understand some of the brokerage/securities lingo. That is the hardest part!
So off to urgent care I go. They diagnose it as Costrocondritis- basically broken cartilage (the top few maybe 5 ribs are actually not bone, but cartilage). It had to be caused from the coughing because I have not had any injuries or anything. So, they gave me a nice shot in the butt :wacko: and a pharmacy of meds. Steroids, good antibiotics to cure the pnemonia so I stop making the rib worse, cough pills, and pain meds. It should get better if I am careful in about 3-6 weeks. Youch. So now I am in a lot of pain without major pain meds, but can't exactly be drafting legal documents for the grand jury doped up! So at work I just take a lot of ibuprofen and try not to move a lot, but sheesh, is this bad luck going to end soon? :tissue:
On a good note- they new job is going great, and I love being an attorney. The total 20 years of schooling to get there is worth it (kindergarden counts! naptime was tough!) I love working in the corporate world and am beginning to start to understand some of the brokerage/securities lingo. That is the hardest part!