Silly, silly Fibro! My body is pretending to have pneumonia. During a pandemic. Is that more tenacity or just some nerve? Not sure...
Do I know it's pretending? Well, it's happened before, just not during a pandemic. My temperature is a little low. But that can happen in old folks with compromised immune systems. I'm almost old, and Fibro is usually lumped in with immunocompromised disorders. But that's mainly because they can't seem to find a better place to dump it. My immune system itself is pretty strong. And the low temp thing is a concern over 65; I'm about to turn 60. Am I hacking up phlegm? Feels like it -- but no actual phlegm involved. Pain breathing? Yes. But no problem fully inflating my lungs. And no problem holding my breath with them fully inflated. Those things don't happen when there's actually fluid in the lungs.
Part way through the day, or maybe tomorrow when I wake up, those problems will be gone, and new ones will appear.
Silly Fibro!
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