I am sympathetic! I have sympathy coming out of my bottom! It's just...limited to 5 minutes and practicality

Yep. This is me as well. And if someone's going to be grumpy at me when I'm trying to take care of them, then fuck off, you're on your own.

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I think the only people who have them are parents of young kids, and me, Howard Hughes wannabe.

I have one. I've kept one on hand for most of my adult life. Knowing if one has a fever is useful information. My attitude toward working sick tends to be "if I'm going to be miserable, I might as well get paid for it," but have to mind spreading illnesses to the residents. I, too, tend to leave off taking something just for a fever until it's well into the triple digits on the grounds that I want my immune system to cook the bugs faster. But then there are so many times when I feel miserably chilled when it is not associated with a fever.

Much getting-settled~ma for you, Nora and Tom.

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watching TICK, they are drinking SHINER BACH beer! Where did they get it!?! did they film in LA? I'm not a huge drinker, but I did like that Texan beer.

Even on your road trip?

Nope, no jars needed on the road trip. See, I'm a guy. If I gotta pee on a road trip, I pull to the side of the road, and pee on a tree.

ION- I seemed to have lost the motivation to do anything today. Need haircut, food shopping, laundry, and continue to unpack.

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My ex used to deny he was sick and instead contend that he didn't have a temperature, but I needed to turn the thermostat up or down.

I feel rotten with a fever and have much sympathy for people who admit to being sick. I have less sympathy who blame external factors for the way they feel or who won't take medicine. If someone *can* take something like ibuprofen but won't, then I have no patience with whining.

I become increasingly nonsensical as my fever rises. When I was growing up, my mother could pretty accurately guess my temperature by my degree of babbling.

Apparently Target has developed time travel. Its website just told me my prescription would be ready an hour before I entered it.

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Bock.

I get sick s rarely that when I do I'm blase about things that actually should get some medical attention. (I think my worst was a xouple of years ago when I was coughing up blood and figured I'd give it a few days and see if it went away. It did, but seriously?)

Sean, re your Stand tale. I saw the movie Speed the first time while on a bus on the freeway driven by crazy Quebecois driver. About 3/4 through he almost missed the exit and slammed on the brakes and I swear the whole bus screamed.

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Christ, when did onions get so expensive? I could swear they used to be under a dollar a pound a few months ago. Now $2.49/lb!

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That's kind of ridic. Where the hell are you buying your onions?

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I think I have 3 thermometers. I get low grade fevers with allergies. I figure over 100 I should stay home, because I have something that someone might catch but it has to be close to 102 for a number of days before I go to the doctor.

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Much settling in~ma for Nora and Tom.

The weening off the steroids is not going well for me this weekend. I'm in so much pain all I want to do is sit in the corner and cry.

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PC I'm running into expensive onions too. 2.89 for a 3 pound bag at bargain store

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