Thursday, December 13, 2007

Black Lung*

I don't have T.B., Plague, or the Ebola virus; I just have asthma. (Okay, and bronchitis about twice a year.)

I started feeling sick on Friday. It was rainy, cold, and I was judging policy debate. My lungs felt like they had little elephants jumping up and down on them.

Then I woke up on Saturday and the elephants had grown. Then came Sunday. Then came Monday. A school day. The week before finals. I decided to take a day off. The day turned into three complete with visiting the doctor and paying unheard of money for prednisone and environmentally-safe inhalers.

So, I am alive. I'm back at school. I'm surviving. I'm not 100 percent, but I'm getting there one percent at at time.

Then why am I dressing all in black tomorrow?

Wicked.






*Sorry for the title. I tend to have a sense of the over-dramatic.

2 comments:

erin said...

I have asthma too. I had a cold a few weeks ago that decided to settle in my lungs, so I had to get a new inhaler as well as a steroid diskus... hooray for modern medicine. Sorry about the elephants.

Th. said...

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If you've got to go, might as well pick the most surprising means possible. So long as it's not contagious. Good job.