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flea - May 10, 2006 7:43:20 am PDT #6472 of 10002
information libertarian

I am currently taking 4 pills every AM and 8 at dinnertime! Maybe some people are used to this, but it's weird for me. The antibiotics are bigger than the horse-pill-prenatal-vitamins. But they are capsules so go down a lot easier than the prednisone, which are tiny but chalky and icky and must be followed by m 'n ms.

I am at work today, not wearing a bourka, and nobody has fainted from seeing me yet. But I still feel hideous.


Topic!Cindy - May 10, 2006 7:45:15 am PDT #6473 of 10002
What is even happening?

flea, are you feeling better, poison ivy wise?

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QUESTIONS for the hivemind: Do P.C.s at airports have a special term, slang name, or brand name? What is generally the going rate (how many minutes for how many dollars)?


flea - May 10, 2006 7:50:09 am PDT #6474 of 10002
information libertarian

Better than I was. I still itch like crazy in little outbursts and have to sit very very still to keep from screaming. But much less oozing and swelling!

On the other hand, I found out my colleague got her wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday and got dry socket yesterday, and CAME TO WORK, and given her description of the pain I think I found someone more pitiful than me. She's here again today; I told her to go home and gave her Advil.


tommyrot - May 10, 2006 7:50:26 am PDT #6475 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Gah. Major crisis now over.

Some overnight stored procedure didn't run at our big client. I had to get it working before they could use their timesheet system. My boss who usually deals with this is out of town. I came in late today, which didn't help.

Then I discover that we have no VPN connecton to client. Spent over an hour trying to get around that. Then it started working for some unknown reason.

So all is fixed. I can breathe now....


tommyrot - May 10, 2006 7:56:14 am PDT #6476 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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JZ - May 10, 2006 8:06:47 am PDT #6477 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

12 pills a day? Oh, flea, that's vile. Was your MD able to give you something good for the itching and misery? And how is your eye?

The only pill I have a real problem with is the omega-3 fatty acids capsule to boost brain development, and which is about as long as the first joint of my middle finger and encased in a hard plasticky carapace to prevent the fatty acids from leaking out and being absorbed until they're too far down in the gut to rebound as fish burps. I used to take these very nice, easy softgels, but it got too disconcerting to finish a bowl of mildly sweetened cereal and then burp fish. So now there's the big yellow plastic bullet, which is nigh impossible to swallow but at least doesn't come back up once it goes down.


Cashmere - May 10, 2006 8:13:19 am PDT #6478 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

The only pill I have a real problem with is the omega-3 fatty acids capsule to boost brain development, and which is about as long as the first joint of my middle finger and encased in a hard plasticky carapace to prevent the fatty acids from leaking out and being absorbed until they're too far down in the gut to rebound as fish burps. I used to take these very nice, easy softgels, but it got too disconcerting to finish a bowl of mildly sweetened cereal and then burp fish. So now there's the big yellow plastic bullet, which is nigh impossible to swallow but at least doesn't come back up once it goes down

It's so weird that this Omega-3 push started between Owen and Olivia. I didn't have to worry about it with Owen but then just a year later, I had to choke down another supplement every morning.


Aims - May 10, 2006 8:21:30 am PDT #6479 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Luckily (ish), I've been taking Omega-3 stuff because it has been found that one of the things it builds up is seratonin. I've been taking it with my Happy Brain Pills (tm) so, if I ever have another baby, I'll already be used to is (ish).


Jesse - May 10, 2006 8:21:47 am PDT #6480 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Eee! Eee! I apparently made it to the next round of interviews, although they haven't had a formal conversation about it. Next round = rest of the department, including the direct report, who is in CA. Wheeee!


§ ita § - May 10, 2006 8:25:06 am PDT #6481 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Congrats, Jesse!

I was taking Omega 3 for a non babymaking reason, but I never burped fishy. I don't know if it was a me thing, or a brand thing.