LADY WINDERMERE SYNDROME

Boo hoo!  I caught a cold that has knocked me for a loop!  Brought home by the fifth grader who spends 6 hours a day, 5 days a week in a petri dish called school.  My daughter was next in line and lastly, little old me.  

I can't get warm

My sister caught a wicked cold after traveling from Oregon back to Kentucky.  After two weeks of no energy and horrible coughing she finally went to her doctor.  An x-ray showed PNEUMONIA!  She was prescribed two antibiotics and a cough expectorant.  After a few days she felt better but not back to her regular busy self.  And it never improved from there.  She went back for a lung CT and finally an appointment with a pulmonologist.

He advised that she most likely has “long pneumonia” (lasting six months or so).  She turns 65 next June and long pneumonia factors in during our dotage years.  Most likely it is “community acquired” pneumonia meaning acquired outside hospitals and medical facilities.  May be caused by bacteria, fungi, virus …. including Covid.  She did a few Covid tests and thankfully that was not it.  The cough has lessened but is still there (now we email or text rather than talk).  Fatigue is still a big issue (she’s usually getting in 20,000 steps a day) and she goes back for another lung CT in three months.  This all started two months ago.

The specialist also brought up Lady Windermere Syndrome which is pretty serious but when we did our research we had to laugh.  It's named after a fastidious character in an Oscar Wilde play. It’s more common in thin (low BMI), tall post menopausal women who have never smoked.  She is tall, thin and almost 65.  I now call her Lady Janet.

P.S. I highly recommend Mucinex-D.