Aha!
This is the kind of schadenfraude that will bite your ass in a few years.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
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DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:21:01 am PST #9183 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2005 9:21:18 am PST #9184 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Did you tell the derm's receptionist that you were under orders not to treat it until you were see, so the dr. could see it active, and that it is terribly itchy?
Yes. But since I called at noon on Thursday, and the doctor doesn't work on Friday, there wasn't a lot she could do for me.
Susan, try the tea tree oil. Based on your description of what it looks like, and the fact that it recurred after the steroid/antifungal cream pretty much got rid of it, if it's *not* a fungal infection, it's doing a damned good imitation of one.
I've got tea tree oil in the medicine cabinet--I've used it on zits in the past.
Can you get that at a normal grocery store?
Probably, if they have a health-food or "natural" food section. I got mine at Trader Joe's, since I seem to live there now.
DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:22:00 am PST #9185 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But no, not a competition.
Uh, did you check to see if -t is in your generational cohort? 'Cuz, she might be tricking you into thinking everybody's slacking off while she scoops up all the cool jobs.
Daisy Jane - Feb 04, 2005 9:24:06 am PST #9186 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I have never gotten mono. I should've kissed more people.
I have a migraine and I want to stab the right side of my head with the big shears on my desk. It will please stop now. (I'm hoping I caught it early enough that between the coffee and the Advil migraine it will be gone before it turns into full on nausea brain scraping pain).
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 9:24:28 am PST #9187 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is the kind of schadenfraude that will bite your ass in a few years.
Not if I go out and get mono now, it won't.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2005 9:24:45 am PST #9188 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I have never gotten mono. I should've kissed more people.
I had it twice. Not fun.
§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 9:26:25 am PST #9189 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had it twice.
My Aha! may be wavering.
Sparky1 - Feb 04, 2005 9:26:49 am PST #9190 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
I have never gotten mono.
Actually, you probably have had mono, only it felt more a like a cold or a mild 'flu, and that built up your immunity enough to spare you a big case. Almost everyone is immune by the time they are 25.
All this I learned when we were trying to figure out who was going to be taking care of my sister's three children, including the little 4 year old who was carrying, but not showing any symptoms herself.
Daisy Jane - Feb 04, 2005 9:27:13 am PST #9191 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I remember there was some twittering about a friend of mine when she got it in middle school. I hadn't really kissed a boy yet and I was all jealous.
Steph L. - Feb 04, 2005 9:27:39 am PST #9192 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I had it twice.
My Aha! may be wavering.
I had fun getting it the second time, but still have never figured out how I got it the first time.