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Maybe we should work on Happy Lungs...

Boy! Yesterday's news sounded really good- huh? Too good to be true? Probably! Today has been the day from hell! I started taking Lamisil for my toenail fungus last night. This morning I woke up so dizzy I could hardly get out of bed! Once I was out of the bed I couldn't walk a straight line ... I kept lilting to the left. My head felt like my left and right brain were out of alignment! It was the most bizzarre feeling I've EVER had in my life! I went back to bed and ignored it for 3 more hours, hoping to talk to my doctor when his office opened. But my doctor is not "IN" on Fridays ... and the alternative doctor who has never seen me before in his life just said "don't take any more of that until you talk to Dr. W. on Monday".... well duh! I could have given me that advice -- and I didn't go to medical school for 8 years! But later in the day a miracle happend! MY doctor called ME! Yea.... wuz up wi' dat? It's NEVER good when your doctor calls you! So, it seems he got my lung Xrays back this morning and that Amanda is going to have a HUMONGOUS "I told you so" heading my way! My lung Xray shows some "scarring" and he wondered if I've ever done any kind of work that might have exposed me to "asbestos". I confirmed that I have. I was a sheetmetal worker for almost 9 years. I also worked with fiberglass insulation which is almost as bad as asbestos. Furthermore, I almost never wore a mask. So never mind that I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 20 years.... or that I quit 13 years ago... my lung damage comes NOT from cigarettes! Sheeeeeesh.... so now I have to have a CAT scan on monday, and then depending what IT shows, he "may have to do some further testing". Oh goodie. Amanda... MaMa's lungs need some "happy"!

posted by Melli at 11:25 AM