An brusque abode for pathogens (Last Plane to the Doctor's Office)

[auto-da-fey]

think I will pass on that, I can see already how it would turn out . . .

[mixed cats]

So once my frend had what he thought was a splinter in his knee.. And it turned out to be a small hair. Not one growing, but it had stabbed into his skin. Maybe it's like that?

[clare]

I was going to say the same as the 'cats. Hairs are really sharp when they're cut off, and stick into skin easily. I'd blame the lady, and try pulling it out. It's all a bit Larry David, actually.

[auto-da-fey]

BREAKING NEWS

the lady pulled it out, and . . . we think maybe it was a strand of ginger (? or some other fibrous vegetable, though I did have a delicious carrot/ginger/cucumber juice this morning).

it was pretty exciting, then sort of anticlimactic, though we did stand there examining it for a few minutes debating over whether it was hair or not.

*posted for the sake of closure*

[Ignatius]

I cannot BELIEVE you did not photograph this for the sake of science!

[auto-da-fey]

the sad thing is, I almost did, but then the note of incredulity in her voice asking "really?" shamed me, inadvertently I think, into blowing it off my finger and remaining grounded in IRL-space.

but it was certainly very hair-like, and she'd back me on that.
she also completely lost her shit laughing when I first showed it to her in my tongue, amused at my apparent freakishness, so I was like, "hey, one of my internet friends thinks I could have gotten this from you, woman."

[Anne the Man]

I like your lady.

OT, my lack of sleep is finally catching up with me and making me feel atrocious and for some reason like I need to go to the bathroom all the time. I might leave work and go home to sleep. Urgh.

[jess]

Hey, Anne, if you feel like you need to pee all the time, but don't actually have to pee much, make sure it's not a UTI...

[Anne the Man]

I'm pretty sure it isn't; it doesn't feel like burning and all that. If it starts then I'll take baking soda in water and have cranberry juice and all that jazz. Or go to the pharmacy.

[FreddyKnuckles]

So almost three weeks ago I banged the fuck outta my shin on this other guy's knee during basketball almost three weeks ago.  It is still painful to the touch and swollen. Did I break my Shin?

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

depends, how many weeks ago did you do it?
 

but, if you can still walk on it, i highly doubt it. my brother fractured his shin and he said it was the most painful thing he's experienced.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Eat my dick? 

It hurt reeeeeeally bad when I did it. Like rolling around on the ground bad. I don't think I got like a clean break or anything, but aren't there other types of fractures? I run my fingers down my other shin and it is more or less smooth. The outside edge of the injured shin has a big ridge, then like a hollow spot, then another big ridge and it is all swollen and painful.  I'm just wondering if its worse than just a bruise since it is lasting so long.

[peacocks]

I am cringing just reading that and getting that sympathy pain thing in my joints (butt). I really hope you didn't break it. 

[dumbfish]

It's possible to mash it so hard you get a compression fracture-- literally dent your shin bone. Worst case, that happened and now you're leaking marrow and a candidate for some nasty side effects. Truthfully, though, if that were happening, you'd probably have systemic problems by now. If you're worried about it and have decent health coverage, an Xray and some tests would confirm or deny that idea.
Much more likely that you bruised the fuck out of it, got some intense swelling, and maybe a bit of calcification (new bone laid down in injured area) as well. My humeruses (sp?) have irregular knobs-- can't see them, can feel them-- in between the deltoids and biceps from football helmet impacts back in the day.

[nonotyet]

This is vaguely embarrassing, but since when has that ever stopped me:

I have gotten so many cold sores over the past few months that I told Evan last night that I was going to start naming them alphabetically, like hurricanes.  (I also told him I'm sorry he's dating a leper and he told me I am the cutest leper ever and he is getting me a bell.) I am not particularly stressed out, or not more so than usual, I haven't changed my routines, I'm sleeping okay. I know that menstruation can be a trigger for women who have the virus but god damn I am so sick of this. Sometimes it's so bad that they migrate to above my upper lip in that little indentation below my nose. I know that eventually I am going to have to go to the doctor, but right now I don't want to pay the copay or the medication because poor. I found an OTC medicine last night with lysine that seems to be working really well, but what the fuck is going on and how do I stop it. God damn.       

[FreddyKnuckles]

herpes, not leprosy. 

[nonotyet]

herpetic leper?
An old boss of mine used to walk by and hiss "sarah has herrrrrrrrrpes" when I came to work with cold sores. In other news, this lysine stuff is AMAZING.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I like herprosy

[clare]

yeah, lysine is the bomb. you can drink coconut water to get some extra, and they're really yummy. I only ever get coldsores in my nose, or invisible ones on my lip, so I can avoid the herpes comments.

[peacocks]

I get coldsores too. they blow. I usually catch them before they get to the OMG HERPES stage and I would die if anyone said anything anywhere close to the comment your old boss made. straight up die.

[FreddyKnuckles]

I feel like I used to get them when I was a teenager but haven't had one since like 15. You can't really grow out of something like that right? It being a virus that sticks around forever? Maybe I just had bad hygiene and picked at corner of mouth zits till they got infected.

[nonotyet]

Mayo Clinic's website says

Fever, menstruation, stress, fatigue and exposure to the sun may trigger a recurrence.

But I wonder if men are less prone to getting them than women? I mentioned that Evan has yet to get one, and my sister told me last night that in the eight years she has been dating/married to her husband he has never gotten one, and she gets them all the time, too.   

 

[FreddyKnuckles]

maybe your genetics make you more prone to herprosy.  Or maybe you all were born with some weird face explosions that aren't contagious!

[dumbfish]

For me, winter dryness + sun exposure + coffee = The Herp.
It's been a couple of years since I had a really impressive bloom, thank jeebus.

[peacocks]

I've always thought it was from all those old relatives kissing me when I was a kid. I've read that the herp (both kinds) can go into dormancy where it just kicks it at the base of your spine either down below or up above depending on where you get oubreaks.