Happy Walking Pneumonia Day To Me!!!

Today was my 36/37 week appointment. All went well. Baby girl is measuring just right (she's a little bag 'o' sugar), her heart rate was good (143), and she is still head down and getting ready to come out and meet us!

But the little girl wasn't the only concern today. I still can't hear. I'm still coughing. I'm STILL SICK! So... I told the doctor. He looked in my ears, and gave me this perplexed look. Then he looked again... More perplexed look. Finally I just said, "WHAT?!"

"Well..." he says, "It looks like you have an infection." (OH REALLY?! I could have told you that a couple of months ago!)

"Hmmm..." I say.

"Your eardrum is yellow and has yellowish fluid behind it... It looks like Mycoplasmae."

"Come again?"

"I think you have walking pneumonia!"

"Oh Really?!"

"Yes... I think I better give you an antibiotic." (YOU THINK?!)

--My feet are hanging off the exam table and I'm dangling them like a happy little girl--

"You mean you're actually going to TREAT me?" (oops, did that slip out?)

Yes indeed folks... After over three months of almost constant crud, I finally have a diagnosis, and I finally got some anti-biotics. It's a red-letter day, I'd say! It felt so much better walking out of the doctor and not feeling like I was thought of as a crazy, whiny patient. It was even better to walk out knowing that now we're actually going to TREAT this crap. WOOHOO!!!

So... Happy Walking Pneumonia day to me! Have you ever seen somebody so happy to find out they have Walking Pneumonia???

Can I add too--that given that I've been fighting this crud for 3 months now... and that I have been dealing with about a million other things including the changes of pregnancy, that I am just pretty darned proud of myself for all I've done... even if I have had some less-than-productive days. Gonna take a lot more than Walking Pneumonia to slow me down!