If you are going to hang, you might take some Purell and clean your hands frequently, just to be extra safe.

This. Also, take 6000 IU of Vitamin D for the next few days.

Bother. My recruiter just emailed me to let me know that I've been turned down for the job she submitted me for last night. Pete and I have decided that the only appropriate response is to go see Zombieland this afternoon.

More from CDC: This flu season, antiviral drugs are being used mainly to treat people who are very sick, such as people who need to be hospitalized, and to treat sick people who are more likely to get serious flu complications.

Okay. I've made a shopping list and I'm going to warn him that I'm going to act as if he has the flu.

Thanks for your thoughts, all. It really helps me to talk type it out.

More from CDC: This flu season, antiviral drugs are being used mainly to treat people who are very sick, such as people who need to be hospitalized, and to treat sick people who are more likely to get serious flu complications.

Hmm. I think they're being given out a bit more widely over here. Still, I fall into the 'potential serious complications' bracket, so that might be why I got the Tamiflu.

I can try and convince KBD to go to the doctor, but I think it's going to be tough, especially b/c he's unemployed and uninsured.

Let him rest. Unless he's sicker-than-usual, that's really what he's going to need anyway.

I'm sorry Erin, that's rough.

Also echoing the "sounds like the flu" meme, smonster. I hope KBD gets well soon.

I went to PT today for the eval on my ankle. That was interesting, as usual. Several confused looks from the physical therapist and she tested a joint to find the range of motion, and it turned way further than she expected. One of the movements, usually the upper limit for what you'd expect is 30 degrees. I had 35 degrees on my left foot, and 50 degrees on the right foot. Another test, she said she couldn't actually do the test, because the test was to press on my heel and see how far a certain bone would move before it stopped, and she was pushing it into what she said was way out of where it should be possible to go, and there wasn't any resistance.

So, next week, I'm going to have to see a different therapist, because my usual one will be out of town, so a whole new person to give me confused looks.

Yeah, just what you want to hear from a health care professional. "I've never seen one do that before."

Skipping ahead to say to Erin:

THIS is why I adore Erin. You so deserve better. That sounds like a toxic environment and fuck 'em with a rusty chainsaw if they can't take a real person.

Seconding this, Barb has nailed precisely what I want to say to you.

Maybe it's because Ohio is an at-will state, because it would be perverse to deny someone unemployment when their employer fired them with the reason of (and I quote) "You're not working out."

Then Minnesota is perverse. We're at-will, and generally if one is anything other than laid off one has to fight for it.

OTOH? I've always won my fights, because even if I've had some issues, the other side's actions were always worse.

Plus?

{{Erin}}