Medical: Pneumonia Last week, Good This Week

For the record (I should have been blogging this as I went)

In early August, I developed a post-nasal drip, with a little tickle at bedtime and a roaring sore throat upon awakening (that quickly dissipated).

But on August 10th, after swimming 500m at the local 50m pool, I came home, felt faint, and had a fever of 102.1

So I called the BI, and they had me come to the emergency room.  X-rays, bacterial culture, viral culture. The Works.  Yes, my lungs were cloudy and I was admitted from Aug 10 to 14.

I had a follow up blood-draw on the 16th (which showed low blood counts and high liver stress).

I had a follow up visit to the BI clinic yesterday, mostly good, but my white counts were too low to do my "2 month" Rituxan (which both relies on the immune system and a can lower blood counts, so we'll try again next week)