What's in a name? Well how about this one...
The latest addition to my affliction collection (will this effing winter ever end?) is something that has been sensitively called 'walking pneumonia'. Yes, walking pneumonia.
It is a mild form of pneumonia caused by the Mycoplasma pneumoniae organism that allows the afflicted to continue in their daily activities, albeit in a rather lack lustre condition.
This goes a long way towards explaining why I've been feeling so rubbish of late, and coupled with the tapering of my Amatryptyline (see blogs passim.) it has given me the full freedom to weep great big man-tears about manly things. In this case Matthew Modine losing his best buddy in Full Metal Jacket. I have decided to use the opportunity to catch up on one or two movies that I have been meaning to watch.
Oh, I know, it sounds like a bit of a doss. But I do have a hacking, unproductive cough, sore chest, head-ache and a certain amount of dizziness (maybe it's Kubrick's 'verite' camera shake). So while I offer defiance, the truth is, walking pneumonia is proving to be anything but a walk in the park (cue consumptive La Boheme-style coughing).
The latest addition to my affliction collection (will this effing winter ever end?) is something that has been sensitively called 'walking pneumonia'. Yes, walking pneumonia.
It is a mild form of pneumonia caused by the Mycoplasma pneumoniae organism that allows the afflicted to continue in their daily activities, albeit in a rather lack lustre condition.
This goes a long way towards explaining why I've been feeling so rubbish of late, and coupled with the tapering of my Amatryptyline (see blogs passim.) it has given me the full freedom to weep great big man-tears about manly things. In this case Matthew Modine losing his best buddy in Full Metal Jacket. I have decided to use the opportunity to catch up on one or two movies that I have been meaning to watch.
Oh, I know, it sounds like a bit of a doss. But I do have a hacking, unproductive cough, sore chest, head-ache and a certain amount of dizziness (maybe it's Kubrick's 'verite' camera shake). So while I offer defiance, the truth is, walking pneumonia is proving to be anything but a walk in the park (cue consumptive La Boheme-style coughing).
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