Again, thanks for the sympathy, guys. I'm going to file a police report tomorrow (crap, I hope I have time), and the school did make an announcement over the intercom. I tried calling my own phone a few times this evening, to no avail. There's enough ident in there that it could feasibly be returned, but in the meantime, I really don't know how to operate without my stuff. I don't know about a reward, as I don't have anything to offer; mostly I'm just dreading telling my parents, even though I think it might be covered under their homeowner's insurance.
In the meantime, though, I'm going to call the elementary school every day to see if anything happens. What a mess. I realized also this evening that I archived my pictures nowhere else, so that's like the month of guatemala, gone!
I need, like, massive amounts of chocolate. Or something.
Is Tep still suffering antibiotic hell?
Newest idea: "Garage sale on Sunday. No items over FREE! Bits of furniture, electronics... Whatever I can't be assed to haul for donation." I probably won't post the "assed" word though.
I saw an article recently about a guy in... Minnesota? maybe? who did just that on Craig's list. It was a rousing success until someone tried to take is stove and caused a gas leak.
::facepalm:: Ooooookay. Turns out that, even though I went twice to the library to see if my bag was there, the librarian just located it. Go figure. At least it wasn't actually stolen.
Yay! I hope all the stuff that should be there is inside.
SA YAY!!! Now be sure to archive your photos /mom
Oh HOORAY SA!!! I've been hoping that was the case!
SA, that is wonderful news.
SA, that is EXCELLENT!!!!
And I am suffering some ill effects from antibiotics. Given what I do for a living, it took me too long to look stuff up and see if this jaw pain -- and I do mean pain, as in maybe-I'll-just-pop-in-to-the-ER pain -- was drug-related.
Cipro and the second antibiotic that alternate!doc prescribed for me (Levaquin) are in the same class of drugs, called quinolones. WHY, for fuck's sake, would you prescribe a drug in the same class as the one that made your patient sick? When there are dozens of other antibiotics out there that work very well and don't make me sick?
Also, the quinolone class of antibiotics apparently can cause very serious side effects, of the sort that don't go away for a long time. As such, they're recommended to be used for serious infections, like anthrax, or when a lesser infection (like sinus) doesn't respond to other antibiotics.
But no -- alternate!doc prescribed Cipro first off, when, like I said, my chart showed a whole list of antibiotics that have worked well for me without causing horrible side effects. And then when quinolone #1 make me sick, did she switch to a different antibiotic family? No -- she gave me another one.
I'm going to e-mail good!doctor and explain my displeasure. And I do mean displeasure -- not bitching or throwing a tantrum, but really. Prescribing Cipro for an ear infection (when she didn't even culture it to see if it was [1] actually a bacterial infection, or [2] susceptible to a less-toxic antibiotic) is an awful lot like turning off your TV by blasting it with a shotgun. Yeah, it does what you want it to, but the collateral damage is pretty bad, and your objective could have been attained without actually destroying the TV in the process.
t /ranty-pants
