MiniSky: Thoughts About Everything

This morning I am receiving an IV of Septra, a combination of two antibiotics. Although I have not seen the doctor yet, the internet tells me that Septra is used for bacterial infection, which means the bronchoscopy must have found a garden-variety pneumonia, probably contracted as a result of my travel last month. (Note to Chaya: I won’t be cleaning any more garages.) Unless drug-resistant, bacterial pneumonia is more treatable than viral or fungal infection. I should be out of here Monday or Tuesday, if I guess aright. My wind is already improving. When I was unplugged from the IV for a time earlier this morning, I hiked up and down the corridor at good pace without panting.

Update: The doctor has been in, and my inference was mistaken. He does not have the pathology results yet. He’s just hitting a spectrum of the likeliest possibilities. PCP (fungal) pneumonia is still the top suspect, however bacterial is quite possible — or a combination. However Doctor M was pleased that I could report an improvement in wind. I was pacing the corridor like a caged animal this morning, and I could walk at a normal clip for the first time in ten days.