The shingles discussion is so timely for me! I can't go ON my 50th birthday in (gulp) 3 1/2 weeks, because it's a holiday, but I mean to get one within days. I had a terrible case of chicken pox at age 18, and I'd rather not give that virus a second crack at making me miserable.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Susan W. - Dec 08, 2020 3:42:29 pm PST #763 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
dcp - Dec 08, 2020 3:50:58 pm PST #764 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Susan W., check ahead of time to make sure local supply is available. It was a problem a year or so ago, and I haven't checked into it since.
Susan W. - Dec 08, 2020 4:03:21 pm PST #765 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thanks, dcp! Will do.
Sheryl - Dec 08, 2020 4:10:06 pm PST #766 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Today ended up being more interesting than expected. I got Mr. S dressed and ready to go in front of his Chromebook, but only got the "the host will let you in shortly" message for all of his first class, and into the second. Then I checked my e-mail to find out that the school's internet and phone lines were out because of a Comcast outage. Mr. S ended up watching random stuff on YouTube for a while. Eventually there was a second e-mail saying that they were sending the teachers home to use their internet there, and that classes would start at 11:25 am. So he got a few classes in, but ended up watching more YouTube than he really ought to.
Jessica - Dec 08, 2020 4:45:49 pm PST #767 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I routinely see Jessica’s grandparents’ grave on walks around my neighborhood (it is visible from the sidewalk) and always think of them and her fondly.
Oh, my heart. I was just thinking of Granny earlier today.
Jesse - Dec 08, 2020 5:07:30 pm PST #768 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Come to find out, my mayor has shingles right now! And it sounds terrible, in his eyes and ears both. He just had bad Lyme disease not that long ago, too. Yikes.
meara - Dec 08, 2020 5:39:30 pm PST #769 of 30000
Yikes, def don't want shingles. Jealous of the people younger than me who never had chickenpox, won't get shingles, and had the HPV vaccine too!
I still have never finished my Hep B shots, or whichever hepatitis it is that was 3 shots. I think Hep C was the gamma globulin golfball in the buttcheek; that was fun. In short: single shot yes please.
I think yeah Hep B. Hep A is two shots, and I think mine were separated by about 8 years because oops. And my yellow fever has now expired. But I did manage to update my tetanus/pertussis/diphtheria one while getting my flu shot in October! Whew.
aurelia - Dec 08, 2020 7:58:51 pm PST #770 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Damn it, we let one get away!
Mwah ha ha!
I got my 2nd Hep A shot about 6 months after the first. I should look into the shingles vax.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 08, 2020 7:59:31 pm PST #771 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I can't remember *why* my doctor said getting the shingles vaccine wasn't a pressing concern, but I came away understanding it was something he thought I should do around 60 rather than 50.
Trudy Booth - Dec 08, 2020 9:47:31 pm PST #772 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Got my first shingles vaccine and it was miserable. Sore for a week. Literally.
Second one is coming up and I’ll be happy to get it over with.
It beats the hell out of shingles.