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Jan. 6th, 2007 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I currently have a temperature of 101.5 F (38.6 C)
Am I lying to myself that I'll be well enough to teach Hebrew School tomorrow?
Do I have any ability to put together a class thingy someone else can follow?
It's times like this that I kind of wish I knew what I was doing. I mean, I teach reasonably well, but I don't know HOW I do it. If I knew what I did, I could write down something for someone else to do.
Am I lying to myself that I'll be well enough to teach Hebrew School tomorrow?
Do I have any ability to put together a class thingy someone else can follow?
It's times like this that I kind of wish I knew what I was doing. I mean, I teach reasonably well, but I don't know HOW I do it. If I knew what I did, I could write down something for someone else to do.
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Date: 2007-01-06 06:44 pm (UTC)Given the combination of the fever with your other symptoms, I would say a. you should probably not teach tomorrow (if nothing else, you'll share your Crud with any kid who might not've got it yet) and b. you might think about getting yourself checked out by someone more qualified than me.
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Date: 2007-01-06 06:51 pm (UTC)I may call an Ask-A-Nurse line about whether it's okay to up my dosage of over-the-counter cough suppressant.
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Date: 2007-01-06 06:59 pm (UTC)Which cough suppressant are you taking? I took a Mucinex, which has made my breathing easier and my coughing less, but I'm not entirely sure how something can be an expectorant and a cough suppressant at the same time.
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Date: 2007-01-06 07:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-01-06 09:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-06 10:10 pm (UTC)Unsolicited medical opinions: 101.5 isn't high enough to cause panic, but is high enough to indicate you should give your body a chance to heal itself by continuing to rest and drink lots of fluids, especially warm fluids. At 102, it's time to consider taking an antipyretic (e.g., aspirin), to keep the fever from getting too high. 102.5 is definitely time for meds, to forestall any sudden rise in temp., and 103 is time to talk to a doctor.
Expectorants help to liquify and break up the mucus in your chest, to make it easier to expel. The natural thing is then to cough, to expel the mucus. If I take anything for the kind of cough you describe, it's generally an expectorant, preferably guaifenesin, which is the decongestant in Robitussin and similar medicines. Personally, I dislike combination medicines, preferring to take separate meds for the exact needs I perceive. I particularly don't care for meds which combine expectorants and cough suppressants. The logic of taking one drug to make the gunk in your lungs easier to cough up, and simultaneously taking another to suppress your cough reflex escapes me.
If your goal is to get some sleep, you might try taking an expectorant a couple of hours before bedtime, and a cough suppressant 15-30 minutes before bed. The expectorant should help you clear your lungs, and the suppressant would then allow you to get some sleep with comparatively decent oxygenation.
Hope you feel better soon!
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Date: 2007-01-06 10:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-06 11:43 pm (UTC)a) need to give your body the time it needs to recuperate; and
b) presumably don't want to give the nasty crud to any of your students.
I hope you feel better soon!
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Date: 2007-01-06 11:46 pm (UTC)I'm just getting over the crud myself, and even though my temp is now normal (after four days) I don't have energy enough to do much of anything.
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Date: 2007-01-07 01:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-07 01:27 am (UTC)I think you're being irresponsible to even consider teaching under these conditions.
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Date: 2007-01-07 11:30 pm (UTC)He's not alone; I read an article about three weeks ago that a significant problem facing employers today is presenteeism.
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Date: 2007-01-07 05:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
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