Also, my sister had it!
I don't think I ever did. Just bog standard strep. A lot. A lot a lot. Annoyingly often.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
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
omnis_audis - Oct 15, 2013 11:17:34 am PDT #5546 of 30002
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
pokes head in thread...
Hey. Miss y'all. I'm well over a month behind in this thread. Over 900 posts. I gave up. So I skipped to the end. Work is busy, but not bad busy, just normal busy. But cuts into free time for reading here.
Hairpats, hugs, & High Fives as needed.
Had a second round of the NSB procedure on Friday. It was a little worse off. Still a bit of pain. But still, NSB.
Calli - Oct 15, 2013 11:18:54 am PDT #5547 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My mom had scarlet fever. She told us that she almost died and her hair changed from curly to straight (is the latter really a thing?).
I got a bunch of boosters in '08, along with some tropics-specific shots. I had to stagger them over three visits and my arm still hurt like the dickens. I never considered not getting them, though. Avoiding pertussis: all the cool kids are doing it.
lisah - Oct 15, 2013 11:57:13 am PDT #5548 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
I had scarlet fever but, thanks to penicillin, it wasn't a huge health crisis.
sj - Oct 15, 2013 12:06:26 pm PDT #5549 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I went to the coffe shop for the first time in over a month because I was avoiding that guy who I mentioned who seems too eager to be my friend. And of course he shows up as I'm waiting for my coffee. However, he ignored me so maybe he got the hint?
Cass - Oct 15, 2013 12:25:51 pm PDT #5550 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.
Just bog standard strep. A lot. A lot a lot. Annoyingly often.
I used to have it at least monthly. Finally was told to suck it up or get my tonsils out when I was 23. Recovery was hell but I haven't had strep since. Really regret I was able to talk my way out of surgery when I was little. But that, as I recall, was just that they were inflamed a lot but not phrased as a great reservoir for strep. Weird when a chronic health thing is just fixed. Nice. But weird.
Hil R. - Oct 15, 2013 12:31:44 pm PDT #5551 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Had a second round of the NSB procedure on Friday. It was a little worse off. Still a bit of pain. But still, NSB.
NSB?
billytea - Oct 15, 2013 12:52:30 pm PDT #5552 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Speaking of epidemics, when we gave Ryan his shower last night, we discovered that he's contracted hand, foot and mouth disease (caused by the not at all hilariously named coxsackie virus). He's home for the rest of the week, and feeling a bit miserable. (We are very lucky that his grandparents are still staying with us.)
erikaj - Oct 15, 2013 12:52:50 pm PDT #5553 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
I admit, I've never had a flu shot because injecting myself with virus freaks me out. But I can accept that I've been fortunate/ well-protected by y'all that do it.
Ginger - Oct 15, 2013 1:09:47 pm PDT #5554 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Poor Ryan.
After restricting myself to mostly white food, I'm better today, although the alien baby is still making a lot of noise. It's a good thing I only live with a dog.