# Pneumonia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557 "2010-03-06T20:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/1 "2010-03-06T20:24:57Z")
I’ve got it, a mild case. At home in my apartment, with z-pack & prescription inhalors. Can’t visit Dad in his rehab until it clears up. Probably cauight it in the hospital. Nuts.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/2 "2010-03-06T20:53:33Z")
Yikes! You’ve certainly had a crap month. Hope you and your dad are feeling better soon! I hear it helps if you sleep propped up with pillows. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/3 "2010-03-06T22:25:01Z")
Fucking hell **Bosda** , you are having a shit 2010 so far. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/4 "2010-03-06T22:27:43Z")
_Walking pneumonia Walking pneumonia Who’d have some walking pneumonia with me…_ ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/5 "2010-03-06T22:45:23Z")
I feel for you. I’ve got serious bronchitis, yet again! I, too, am huddled up in my loft with the Zpack and lots of fluids. Feels like I’m breathing through a wet sponge. Feel better soon…and healing thoughts to you and your Dad! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/6 "2010-03-06T22:58:49Z")
Codene (sp?) cough medicine helps, a little. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/7 "2010-03-07T01:35:00Z")
You could always make the cough syrup my pediatrician recommended to my mother, many moons ago: one part honey, one part lemon juice, one part whisky. For some strange reason, it quiets the kids right down……. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/8 "2010-03-07T02:02:02Z")
Feel better soon, **Bosda**! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/9 "2010-03-07T02:39:10Z")
No fun! Wishing you a quick recovery! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/10 "2010-03-07T03:20:51Z")
I had pneumonia a few years ago. Despite the pulmanologist telling me I could return to work (I’m an RN) after 2 days in the hospital, I insisted on a week off. Even though I only worked PT at the time, I worked 12 hour shifts. I truly didn’t feel WELL until a month after my bout. It was like a switch was flipped and suddenly I had energy again. Please, take it very easy. Rest, rest and then rest again. It’s the only way to get better. (or at least it was for me). Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/11 "2010-03-07T05:59:56Z")
I just got over a bout of pneumonia a couple weeks ago. Luckily mine was never contagious because it was due to injury, not illness. Bad enough to be awakened, sputtering, in the middle the night, lungs full of aspirated stomach acid. But to have it get worse from there, get infected and lead to a month’s worth of pneumonia, I highly do NOT recommend. So I feel for you **Bosda** , with the sincerity of very recent memory. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/12 "2010-03-07T06:27:38Z")
I was grateful when I got it as I could look my partner in the eye. She had it so bad she cracked her ribs coughing. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/13 "2010-03-07T12:53:13Z")
Sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/14 "2010-03-07T12:57:35Z")
This is going to look so interesting on your x-rays with your histoplasmosis scar. Give yourself plenty of time to fully recover. Hope you feel better soon. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/15 "2010-03-07T23:01:07Z")
Z-pack is kicking in. I’m starting to feel a little better. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/16 "2010-03-08T00:03:42Z")
Dang **Bosda**! Prayers and healing thoughts headed your way. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/17 "2010-03-08T00:34:56Z")
Ugh. And I was in the same clinic waiting room as a heavily breathing woman with pneumonia. I don’t remember if she coughed or sneezed, but she said she had it, and she was in the same room. I tried to get out of her “cone of germs,” but who knows. We’ll see if I picked it up from her. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/18 "2010-03-09T14:52:24Z")
Get well soon **Bosda**. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/19 "2010-03-09T20:26:10Z")
Wishing you a speedy recovery. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pneumonia/531557/20 "2010-03-09T23:39:40Z")
The white blood cells of Bosda have again failed in their jobs-a filial duty he’s slacking while sputum he’s hacking Dopers wish health for you and your Da-da.