I had scarlet fever but, thanks to penicillin, it wasn't a huge health crisis.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
lisah - Oct 15, 2013 11:57:13 am PDT #5548 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
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.
Connie Neil - Oct 15, 2013 2:00:43 pm PDT #5555 of 30002
brillig
I'd better get my shot at my doctor's appointment next month.
Calli - Oct 15, 2013 2:15:39 pm PDT #5556 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I work for a public health org, so I get a free flu shot every year. I go down a light of stairs, fill out a form, get jabbed, and go back upstairs. It's 10 minutes away from my desk, including three minutes of chatting with a coworker. It seems like such a good investment for the company compared to the cost of lost work if flu swept through the office.
Glamcookie - Oct 15, 2013 2:16:04 pm PDT #5557 of 30002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Suzi, so glad CJ and friends are okay. How scary! You have a great kid there.
Maria, I shake my fist at the shitweasel! SHAKE MY FIST!!!!
{{{Ginger}}} I hope you are feeling better.
I don't understand why people don't trust their doctors. When mine told me I needed the flu shot when I was pregnant? I got the effin' flu shot! Her job is to protect my health and the health of my baby and I trust her to do that.
ION, my day of 6 interviews in 6.5 hours is over (it was yesterday)! I think it went well? So hard to tell - you get loopy. I should know if I got it by end-of-week. Meep.