Ill'n, meds, pimply

For the past three weeks, and since the BC race, I've been sick. My lungs have been filled up with all sorts of gunkage and I cannot breath properly. I saw a doctor, at a clinic here in town, who put me on a puffer and antibiotics. Two weeks later and still no improvement. Yesterday I got in to see my family doctor and apparently I was misdiagnosed and should never have been on the meds. In fact, the puffer was doing more harm than good. Lovely. Just what a cyclist wants, his/her lungs to be put at risk.

I had originally gone to see my family doctor yesterday because I developed a strange rash along my neck, shoulders and chest over the past few days. I thought I was having a reaction to the meds. I like to self-diagnose myself from time to time. Unfortunately, I am usually (99%) wrong . . . . like the time I thought I was coming down with leprosy, when in fact it was just a hangnail . . . . or the time I thought I had scarlet fever, when I actually had a sunburn.

I digress . . . . it was indeed not a reaction to the medicine (which, again, I should not have been taking), but a heat rash. Anyone ever have one before? Fugly! Tiny little dot, pimple like things covering the affected area. Your skin becomes like bubble wrap - once you start popping those little suckers it's hard to stop.

So, what's wrong with me? A viral infection of my lungs that no meds are going to fix. It's a matter of time and rest.