Where to start…..I finished the oral Cipro and prednisone on Friday the 23rd. Still wasn’t feeling great, although the prednisone helped a ton by opening up my reactive airways making me not so tight chested and wheezy. Tuesday, the 27th, I started with noticeable lung pain in the upper right lung. It hurt to cough, good luck not doing that one, and made the vest uncomfortable to use during treatment times but I powered through it because I have to get that junk out. The lung pain continued yesterday and today. I called my clinic to ask for a chest x-ray to make sure there wasn’t anything blatantly obvious on it as to a reason for the pain, like a major infiltrate (junk/blood stuck in there), infection, pneumonia, collapsed lung (partial, considering I was still able to breathe decently) or fractured ribs. I figured it was just do to the raging pseudomonas infection I have going on at the moment. Continue reading →