piglet

Can't tell which without a chest x-ray, and same treatment no matter what, so not bothering to distinguish between them.

Either way, have a week's worth of $10/pill expectorant (*with* insurance!), fluids, a doctor's note to get me off work (sheesh!), and orders to eat less dairy [edit: except for what I need to swallow these fucking horse pills! geeze, these are ginormous] & to rest. Until at least Monday.

Thanks, Mamma, for knowing what it feels like to walk around with (double! in her case) pneumonia, and convincing me to go to get seen.

And, thanks, Ashbet, for modelling how to be persistent & unrelenting with insurance companies & doctor's offices! My other big achievement, while sick as a dog this week, was to get my blood pressure medication refilled (on an emergency basis, by the doctor who's taken over for my DOCTOR WHO DIED [still not coping with that]).

So now my heart won't burst from my chest, nor will I cough up a lung (merely its [sludgy yellow] contents). Thanks, all!