Mycoplasma and How It Blessed ME: Part II
How is it that a sinus infection can be a blessing? Well, after I was examined by the doctor and he had listened to my lungs and looked in
side at the back of my throat, his news to me was startling. He told me that it was a good thing that I had come in then because if I had waited one more day, I could have presented with mycoplasma. To the layman, that’s “walking pneumonia.” Yikes!! How in the world could this be? Thankfully, I only had a case of bronchitis and with a 10-day round of antibiotics and plenty of fluids and rest, I would be good as new. Back to my old self. Well, kind of.
The blessed part of this being sick was the awareness of it. You see, I’m just as busy as everyone else is. Running here and there, carting kids back and forth to activities, helping people, cooking, cleaning, meeting deadlines, faxing, negotiating, copying, writing, phoning and everything else on a day-to-day schedule. With so many, many things to do in a course of a day, who in the world has time to be sick? Not me! I had been having slight sinus drainage with a headache and congestion for a few weeks and it was slowly starting to catch up with me. After three weeks of taking Benadryl on a routine basis, it had stopped working and the congestion was starting to settle in my chest. That’s the rattling the doctor heard when he examined me.
I feel strongly that our bodies “talk� to us and tell us when they’re not feeling well. We should listen to its subtle hints. If I had not gone to the doctor that day, I could have been sicker than I am now and possibly hospitalized. Nothing, I do mean nothing, is worth my health.
You decide now…will you listen to your bodies?
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