Viral Bronchitis

That's the diagnosis I got from my doctor this afternoon, as I lay in a pathetic heap on the examining table in his office. My fever was only 100.2, but, I still felt like I was certainly dying. Dizzy, aching, coughing, sniffling, and alternately hot and cold. And the coughing - oh the coughing up a lung. I haven't been to work in 2.5 days and have spent enough time coughing on the phone to my assistant that I am sure she must want to kill me. (Question, if you were a legal assistant, would you resent dictation given over the phone interrupted by copious coughing?? Isn't it better over than phone than from the next room where one might be infected by the coughing person??) (I am not suggesting that she DID resent it, just that I am WORRIED that it was an annoying thing for me to do...)

Anyway, the good doctor says I have viral bronchitis and need to spend the next two days sleeping and drinking an ocean of herbal tea. Or lemonade or water or basically anything wet that is caffeine free. He did prescribe a nice heavy duty cough syrup that is supposed to make me sleep alot. And while I was there, he was nice enough to write scripts for Cipro for Husband and I for our trip to Vietnam and an antibiotic for Lan with instructions not to reconstitute it. For those of you who have traveled, what other prescription meds did you take with you? Did you take anything for maleria?

We heard nothing from our agency today, so, I guess we didn't get travel approval in two weeks like some other families. Guess we'll wait and see what next week brings.

LM