That would suck if you'd developed an allergy, but I agree with Steph that it can happen. I had no allergy to cats when I was younger but now I do.

erika, I very much approve of your long-range vocational goal, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Or get an interview for your company.

The doctor who refused me a 'flu shot because I didn't have the "right" chronic illness is On My List in such a serious way. I'm up at 4am with hacking cough and raging fever. I'm supposed to be going on a protest in the morning. Bet I'll be banned from spending six hours in the rain outside Downing Street now.

I'm sorry the doctor refused you the vaccine, Seska. That sucks.

Steph, thanks for the info! I do have mild GI problems. I think I'll give the probiotics a try. I'll probably take a round of olive leaf first, though, to clear away any excess candida. That's worked for me before. (And by "worked", I mean, it did what I expected and I felt better. Objective data, I have little of it.)

Just for the record, I went to bed early too. I was awake at 3am. I fear this strategy for getting more sleep doesn't work so well...

Seska, you should wait until your symptoms are full-blown and go hang out outside that doctor's office, and sneeze on him when he walks by. Then when he gets mad, ask him if HE got a shot.

Zenkitty, I'd so love to do that. More-sleep~ma to you!

I have, as I suspected, been banned from protesting. To be fair, I can't stand up or see straight, so I probably wouldn't be a lot of use at the protest. I have a Girl taking care of me, so that's good.

I'm sorry, Seska. It doesn't sound like you're in any state to be kettled for hours, though. I hope you feel better soon.

I was quite looking forward to being the second person in a week that the police dragged out of a wheelchair at a protest, but you can't have everything in life.

Thanks, Seska, thought you'd like that! Of course, in a perfect world, I'd be hot like Sophie, too, but as the philosopher Jagger said, " You can't always get what you want."(of course now her name isn't Sophie, but it suits her, in my opinion.) Protesting: Most thankless job: Able-bodied ally. They run their butts off and, in my experience, get blamed for everything by 5-0.(We couldn't think of it all ourselves; someone must have put the idea in our heads.)

t as the philosopher Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want."

OTOH? If you try, sometimes you just might find you get what you need.

Interesting dialectic, there. (appearance wise, on a decent day, I have a minor shot at Parkerishness. Which is not bad, but not likely to make people write bad checks. Although she looked really cute in the elf costume and my Kinsey score thought that too.) Which is one of those thoughts that exists for b.org, because anyplace else? People back away slowly from thoughts like those.