Okay, eww.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Feb 23, 2005 5:43:55 am PST #2807 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lyra Jane - Feb 23, 2005 5:46:05 am PST #2808 of 10001
Up with the sun
That's gross. (And honestly, the alure of smelly unisex restrooms has always escaped me.)
Anne, I agree you should call the recipient to figure out what's up.
Also, timelies.
Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2005 5:51:28 am PST #2809 of 10001
brillig
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that doesn't work on any woman who's shared a bathroom with a man.
Steph L. - Feb 23, 2005 6:21:43 am PST #2810 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Holy shit, you guys. Big!Boss has Strep Type A necrotizing fasciitis.
That's right -- for real, he's infected with flesh-eating bacteria. He's "lucky" in that it only seems to have whammied one arm, and nowhere else. However, he had to have all the skin removed from the underside of his left arm, from the wrist all the way up to the armpit.
The bacteria are in his blood, but not his organs. However, his organs are rebelling just from the trauma of the infection/skin removal/etc, so he has to undergo dialysis for a couple hours each day. He's on high doses of IV antibiotics and high doses of painkillers and he's on a ventilator, so he's not technically in a drug-induced coma, but he might as well be.
He's going to be in the hospital for a long time. He's 73. The good part of all this is that he should have died, because the first 12-24 hours of Strep A infection is the window where people most commonly die. (And from what I understand, it was 36-48 hours before he went to the ER.)
So since he survived the initial 12-24 hours, he has a good long-term prognosis. However, he's got a long road in front of him, and he *is* 73 -- the infection and having all that skin removed is very very hard on his system. And it'll be a while before he can have surgery to graft skin onto his arm, so having a skinless arm (yes, it's wrapped in saline-soaked gauze -- they treat it like a severe burn) for a period of time is going to put a lot of stress on his body. Still, he should pull through, eventually.
Shit, man. Flesh-eating bacteria.
Jessica - Feb 23, 2005 6:22:59 am PST #2811 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Holy shit, Tep.
brenda m - Feb 23, 2005 6:24:15 am PST #2812 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Holy crap.
DavidS - Feb 23, 2005 6:24:39 am PST #2813 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Holy fuck that's scary.
Sorry, erika, I've just crossed Arizona off my traveling itinerary for the next millenia.
-t - Feb 23, 2005 6:26:00 am PST #2814 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow, Tep, seriously scary. Damn.
Lyra Jane - Feb 23, 2005 6:26:54 am PST #2815 of 10001
Up with the sun
Wow, Steph. That's just freaky. Very sad for him and his family and friends, but from my distance, mostly? Freaky.
juliana - Feb 23, 2005 6:28:07 am PST #2816 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Big!Boss has Strep Type A necrotizing fasciitis.
Holy. Fuck.