Ugh, askye. I had someone who just never really took anything in and every time she was corrected would say "lesson learned!" like that was an end to it. I still twitch when I hear that phrase.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - Oct 14, 2013 5:24:05 pm PDT #5536 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Cass - Oct 14, 2013 5:30:38 pm PDT #5537 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And when you start having a sizable amount of unvaccinated kids, it gets a foothold.
Adults need a booster, but that isn't well known so many don't get it.
Which, hey, *I* didn't know until I got it. Heck, I didn't know the disease still really existed in this country until I got it right when it started the PNW outbreak. So while it's really important to vaccinate your kids, it's also kinda important to vaccinate your adults too.
meara - Oct 14, 2013 5:39:39 pm PDT #5538 of 30002
Yeah, adults need a booster, but if all the kids are getting the vaccine there's nowhere for it to live. But then if they're not it starts hitting everyone.
A friend of mine is mostly blind and partly deaf, because her mom had measles when she was pregnant. Apparently they were super worried my friend would be way worse off than that, but though she's got lots of health problems, luckily her brain is fine.
askye - Oct 14, 2013 6:01:24 pm PDT #5539 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
Mom had quite a few students who lost their hearing due to meningitis when she was teaching.
Hil R. - Oct 14, 2013 6:39:07 pm PDT #5540 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A friend of mine is mostly blind and partly deaf, because her mom had measles when she was pregnant. Apparently they were super worried my friend would be way worse off than that, but though she's got lots of health problems, luckily her brain is fine.
That sounds more like German measles than regular measles. There was a German measles epidemic in 1964, and just about every deaf school in the country had a much bigger class of kids born in 64-65 than they usually had.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 14, 2013 6:47:17 pm PDT #5541 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
smonster, what's the flu that's running around here? I'm ridiculously sick again and I'm wondering what's going on.
meara - Oct 14, 2013 7:40:46 pm PDT #5542 of 30002
That sounds more like German measles than regular measles. There was a German measles epidemic in 1964, and just about every deaf school in the country had a much bigger class of kids born in 64-65 than they usually had.
I think it was, actually, though this was in 1977.
sj - Oct 15, 2013 6:39:20 am PDT #5543 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Family drama today, yay?
P.M. Marc - Oct 15, 2013 8:58:39 am PDT #5544 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Jessie, vaccines save lies. Period. Fact. Do you know anyone who's had polio? Do you know anyone who's had scarlet fever? Because I don't. We've forgotten how heart-breaking and deadly those diseases are, because no one gets them any more. Because vaccines.
Scarlet fever is group A strep with a specific presentation. Thanks to antibiotics, it's no longer the health issue it once was, but it hasn't vanished. Unfortunately, there's at least one resistant strain out there, which is terrifying. There is no vaccine for it (there are for some bacterial infections, like pertussis, but not for this one).
Otherwise, you tell 'em!
P.M. Marc - Oct 15, 2013 8:59:21 am PDT #5545 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also, my sister had it!
I don't think I ever did. Just bog standard strep. A lot. A lot a lot. Annoyingly often.