Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The itis

I've been having a bad case of the various itis. No, I'm not talking about that overwhelming feeling of sleepiness that comes after you've eaten too much food. That type of itis, I sure don't mind. Two weeks ago the doctor said I had bronchitis and apparently now I have sinusitis. The worst part is that there isn't medication I can take to stop the coughing until I get the sinus areas drained. In all honesty, I can deal with the sinus areas, it's the coughing that sucks and it's the thing that they can't get rid of directly.

Let's take a closer look at itis. What exactly does it mean when the doctor tells you that you have some sort of itis. In a nutshell, it means you've got inflammation of a certain body part. Did you know that there are over 50 types of itis? That's a lot of inflammation possibilities that can go on with your body. I'm just glad that I don't have an itis involving any of the regions that determine whether you pee standing up or sitting down if you catch my drift!

3 Comments:

Blogger Emily W. Wong said...

Yikes! Seems like you've been sick for too long! I hope you are feeling better soon.

I tried looking up on how to get rid of phlegm. But it was no help...the web says you should just hack it up. (great help)

Hugs,
Emmy

8:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you pee standing up?

1:45 AM  
Blogger stay-c said...

I know, I've been sick for the past 4 weeks and with each week, the symptoms keep changing. I went to the doctor yet again today. He was like, "are you around sick people a lot?" Whoever gave me something from that weekend definitely put a number on me. I had to get a strep test ($25) and I don't have it, I have a slight fever, and he prescribed me some crazy expensive medication. $48 for just 3 pills!! These better freaking work or do something cool like pee out a rainbow. I've been coughing really bad at night so I can't get any sleep so the past 2 nights I've been chugging the Nyquil. If I were a guy, the hacking would be easy but I've tried and it doesn't work, instead I feel like I'm about to hurl.

Who doesn't pee standing up? Such silly questions.

7:02 PM  

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