a hypochondriac muses

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Date: 17 March 2006 07:03:31

Maybe I have a mild case of Legionnaire's disease. Maybe I have been to the site of the current outbreak in the last 10 days.... I can't remember! I don't THINK I have. But it's possible. Well you never know! I've had a fever for three days now! And fever is one of the symptoms.

I don't think I caught anything at the children's hospital because I wasn't actually in contact with any sick children while I was there. And my fever started two hours after I came home. Which is a very short incubation period. It could have been at work on Saturday. There were some sick people there. Well I assume there were.

Hmmm I look forward to seeing the look on my long suffering doctor's face when I announce that I have Legionnaire's disease. She will then turn to her computer and increase my hypochondria rating by a few more notches.

We haven't yet learnt how many days of fever is reasonable to put up with. We haven't learnt much clinically useful stuff at all yet...