My aching head

I haven't been breathing well for a couple of weeks, but over the weekend the coughing got so much worse. Also, when your exhalation sounds like a bike tire with a slow leak, it's not good. I called my Pulmonologist on Monday afternoon, got a call Tuesday morning, and mirabile dictu got an appointment for an hour and a half later. Praise be for living within 15 minutes of two of the three major medical centers in the Savannah area. Seriously, if I felt better, I could have walked it in 20.

I'm on prednisone again. Now there are three main ways to get prednisone: a shot in the toches, a weekly plastic card with titrated pills (which I find harder to deal with when I'm sick), or a bottle of pills. Many times, it's been the shot and one form or another of pills. So the good news: it doesn't hurt to sit.

I got the second form of pills which is just easier, but all forms of prednisone give me headaches on the higher doses. I took six pills yesterday (two batches of three) and the first batch for today. My head aches. It will probably continue to ache through tomorrow which is still six pills and then ebb Saturday-Monday when it's four pills and go away completely Tuesday-Thursday when it's two pills.

*whimper