Hey, what language is "bis" meaning (I think) between or to ( like one to seven)? I was babbling at the cat and it popped out and now I can't think of the direct translation (though I know I used it correctly!) It's got to be german, french or spanish. Maybe czech, but I doubt it.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2005 4:19:24 pm PST #918 of 10006
Daisy Jane - Nov 02, 2005 4:21:06 pm PST #919 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I have good topic related news! I think I have a touch of the flu!
This is good you see, because this morning under the wave of nausea and the slightly fevery feeling this morning I was trying to figure out how to fix our credit, save some money, buy a house and move to the suburbs within the next 9 months.
After a trip to the drugstore it would seem that none of that is necessary, and I can still drink and smoke...well, I can once I'm over Yay!Flu.
sarameg - Nov 02, 2005 4:24:33 pm PST #920 of 10006
Yay Daisy?
I hate when my brain momentarily accesses my foreign language braincell. It's pretty weak, but it pops up at random. I said dekuji to someone the other day. They were confused.
Daisy Jane - Nov 02, 2005 4:30:17 pm PST #921 of 10006
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Yes. I have the Yay!Flu. If you saw the state of my finances and knew my true level of responsibility you would call it the Yay!Flu too. As would any hypothetical sprog.
Jessica - Nov 02, 2005 4:30:46 pm PST #922 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am pretty sure what killed Jim Henson was bacterial pneumonia, so, in disease terms, kind of a "piano dropped on your head" kind of illness. In the sense that it is unlikely to happen, but when it does, hello to the dirt nap.
Most flu-related deaths are from secondary bacterial pneumonia. It's dangerously easy to catch when your immune system has been compromised. (And in this modern era of antibiotics, completely treatable if you catch it early. Which Jim Henson did not.)
So, flu shot --> no flu --> no weakened immune system for bacterial pneumonia to infect --> no death.
Betsy HP - Nov 02, 2005 4:32:36 pm PST #923 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
When I got pneumonia last year, it was an aftereffect of the flu.
Hey, that was two Springs ago! Yea!
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 4:32:45 pm PST #924 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Didn't he die of strep(ish)? Does strep often follow the flu? Or is it more lethal when it does, you're saying?
Jessica - Nov 02, 2005 4:37:31 pm PST #925 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Or is it more lethal when it does, you're saying?
This. Influenza is rarely lethal by itself -- it almost always kills by weakening your immune system and leaving you vulnerable to bacteria you would normally fight off.
(The 1918 strain also killed by provoking such a violent immune response that patients' white cells essentially devoured their own lungs, but that was special circumstances.)
sarameg - Nov 02, 2005 4:45:40 pm PST #926 of 10006
(The 1918 strain also killed by provoking such a violent immune response that patients' white cells essentially devoured their own lungs, but that was special circumstances.)
I vaguely recall hearing something about the fact that those with robust immune systems, if they contracted, were pretty much doomed because of the response. But that may have been another flu. Or I was waking up and misunderstood.
Mom had pneumonia a couple years ago. Over TG. I took leave to take care of her. It wasn't fun. Delerious moms aren't.
DXMachina - Nov 02, 2005 4:46:30 pm PST #927 of 10006
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I have had the flu once in the past 10 years, and while that edition of the flu knocked me silly and kept me coughing for weeks afterwards (my doctor suspects I have mild asthma, which slows down recovery a lot)
See, I have the same mild asthma, and this has happened to me a couple of times now. The last time it happened, it was a year and more before I stopped coughing. I'm getting my shot tomorrow.