Before I start this entry, I just want to say that I have a TOTALLY REASONABLE REASON for not updating sooner. I will give this reason in the form of a piece of sagely advice
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Okay, not to knock Jackie, but it's called walking pneumonia because patients don't look or feel that sick. They come in with a cough generally. And you have to do an X-Ray to confirm because the X-ray looks worse than the patient. And the organism that causes walking pneumonia requires antibiotics.
^^;;; I didn't mean to knock my doctor. Now I feel bad because you and Tim seem sort of offended. I absolutely didn't mean to say that he sucked or anything just because he didn't happen to know EXACTLY what was wrong with me. I was just making the comment as a joke! No offense intended!
I'm not offended. He very likely didn't know what was wrong with you. I'm saying that you don't have the typical symptoms of walking pneumonia (and when I say "walking pneumonia" I don't mean mild pneumonia, I mean mycoplasma pneumonia). I suppose if Jackie meant a mild pneumonia, that's possible, but the problem with googling diagnoses (and not having a doctor do it), is a lot of time patients cherry pick their symptoms or they don't quite understand what the symptoms mean. Fuck, if I google my own symptoms, I'm pretty sure I've had cholecystitis, polydermatositis, fibromyalgia, and an assorted other number of conditions.
I bore y'all with banalities of my tastes and life all the time! It's only right that you return the favor ;P
Props to the ever so awesome Jackie, but doctors are still fallible humans and a sample size of 1 doesn't necessarily lead to an accurate conclusion, especially with a disease that's just so gosh darn vague. Hope you feel better soon!
^^;; Yeah, see what I wrote to Romy above.... I was just kidding around, you guys! I didn't mean to come off as dissin' doctors. *I* certainly couldn't do anything that you guys do!
Nah, there's... there's just so many diseases out there, and likely so much more that are not well-characterized, with vague symptoms, etiologies, insensitive/nonspecific lab values, etc. One of my favorites is Brainerd diarrhea (no known cause, lasting years, then all of a sudden gets better. I suspect Hot Pocket ghosts.). But yeah, I've known a fair share of frustrations with doctors with elusive diagnoses, etc. so I feel ya. Alas, no one is perfect.
lol even a lot of med students can't do what we're supposed to do, so... yeah.
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Props to the ever so awesome Jackie, but doctors are still fallible humans and a sample size of 1 doesn't necessarily lead to an accurate conclusion, especially with a disease that's just so gosh darn vague. Hope you feel better soon!
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(I feel MUCH better, thanks!)
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lol even a lot of med students can't do what we're supposed to do, so... yeah.
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