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Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Sat Nov 13 16:21:13 CST 2004


On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 11:31:44AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:02:19AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Pneumonia is a bitch--it KILLS people, with good frequency.  Be happy
> > that you're tough enough to kick it, even with your starting
> > disadvantage of having a smoker in the house.
> 
> I attribute my recovery to 10 days of 500mg/day "Levaquin".  Some new
> antibiotic.  I'm still not 100%, but I'm up and mobile.

Yeah, they tried levaquin on me the last-but-one time I came down with
walking pneumonia.  (Smoke inhalation damage is a factor, we think.)
The last time, it took ten days if ciprofloxacin and ten more of
moxifloxacin to knock the damned infection down.


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