Worrying, overthinking, and plucking my own nerves with my what-ifness brain, while holding it together to take care of my favorite human.
Hubby still isn't any better, but isn't really a whole lot worse (thankfully), other than the rib pain from coughing so much. The first day of meds seemed like the best, but there's been no improvements since. Fever doesn't go over 100.5ish, goes totally away some days, but still comes back.
The doc gave him antibiotics (z-pack), so that means it's likely viral. He was also advised to use his rescue inhaler daily. (he has asthma and severe allergies) She also gave him prescription cough medicine that didn't do much, if anything at all for relief. So now she prescribed prednisone to try today.
She said if that doesn't help, he could choose to go to a testing center to get the covid test, but the treatment path wouldn't vary any unless he gets much worse. Here's hoping relief finds him soon, in the kindest gentlest ways.