A month now.

Sundae, last year a cough went around down here which got called the 50 day cough, but was a variety of whooping cough. You might have that, which might not be good to take to school.

Infikey, I hate people who bring germs to work like that. I wonder, can anyone sue someone for exposing them to contagions like that?

And what was the name of that fish that hides up sea cucumber's arses?

Jolene.

Not really, but it starts with Jo...

My daughter so fucking rocks at water polo it's untrue! I can't believe how good she is. She's playing in a varsity tournament this weekend (tonight she played her 6th and 7th games ever) and people I don't know are congratulating me on her great playing. Yeah, I spilled out of the proud parent thread. This is the Post Ho thread, I can be as obnoxious and nauseating as I want. :p: Now I think I know why the swim coach was so pissy about her playing WP -she lost her first good breaststroker to WP (My girl is her 5th good breaststroker). The first one is now a senior, headed to college to play polo (not swim) and my daugher is clearly being groomed to replace her on the WP team.

Update on My Cough
 

I went into school on Friday morning only to be sent home.
Basically I couldn't speak or move without coughing, so I was pretty much worthless. My voice disappeared somewhere between Thursday evening and Friday morning too.

So I sat around on Friday waiting for the Doctor to call.
She did at 11.20 and asked me to come in (surprise!) at 15.00.
Felt like a wasted day as when I was sitting stock still in silence and watching daytime TV I was only having coughing spasms every 15 minutes instead of constantly.

So, different Doctor, different approach.
She also checked my blood oxygen level - still low.
Checked me with her stethoscope - again, yup, there is something wrong there.
Checked that I'd had my chest xrayed, yes and it was clear.
Again asked me more than once if I was, ever had been or would ever consider being asthmatic. No, same as last time.

I did have a temperature this time, but then it was a warmer room :)

She also checked my throat, but apparently it's fine.

So I am a medical conundrum!
She put me on penicillin rather than steroids and gave me an inhaler.
And cheerily suggested that if I got worse over the weekend I should take myself to hospital.

Right here, right now, having taken 4 tablets I am feeling a little better. Last night was hellish.
And I've yet to have any sympathy at home. No, scratch that - Mum offered to make me scrambled egg for lunch. Didn't help me clean up Diz's cat sick though, despite the fact that the bending and movement involved made me convulse so hard I was seeing stars. Hasn't asked me how I am or how I feel. Too busy being pissed off at the bloody racket I am making.

Fingers crossed the seven day dose of anti-biotics will knock this damned thing on the head.

Oh and no-one, not the aged 'rents or the vulnerable childer, have anything like this. So whatever I am infected with, I'm not passing it around.

Lupus.

It's never....waitaminute..no...maybe it is always Lupus after all.

OMG - you had me worried there.
I actually looked up the symptoms.

Then I realised it was a joke about House.

Why, yes, I am. How did you guess?

One of my friends has lupus. Those symptoms are pretty much right for her condition although so far no seizures.

It's a pretty sucky disorder.

She's actually the one with the alcoholic daughter that I mentioned somewhere around here.

Said daughter has been in a detox clinic for two days now. At the end of the week, when she's finished detoxing (hopefully) she'll be going into a rehab program for the next 10 months.

This is all very good if she will stick at it.

Skyline Women's polo: CHAMPIONS. of the Saline MI Varsity invitational. Wondering how many Milfords there are in Ohio, though. Because they came to the tourney and it seems an awful long way to come from near Cinci, which is what mapquest suggests.... There were the three Ann Arbor teams, two from neighboring cities (one being the host), three from Detroit suburbs, one weaker team from the west coast of MI (understanderble -the polo is ferocious there, they'd get eaten alive in local tournaments).

Just found the official MI High School Girls website. Skyline are ranked 3rd in the state, after two of the ferocious west coast teams. Rightly so :).

Yes, I have paperwork i should be doing.

Sorry, the lupus post was meant as a joke.
I did copy some of the real symptoms over, but I interspersed them with some of mine.

I always knew it was a House ref.

I couldn't find a thread about a 'movie I saw and a tv show I just discovered.'

Went to theatre to see A Cabin in the Woods. Not as scary as id hoped. More monster movie than scary but rather clever. It was worth seeing in the theatre.

I watched The Others here at home last night, which fulfills my desire for creepy surprises and eeriness better.

Now, has anyone ever watched Raising Hope? I watched some eps on free on demand today and omg what a funny show! And that girl from garfunkel and oates is on it. Great double ep with Nancy Grace basically lampooning herself, in a show about the serial killer mother of Hope. Quirky.

Never watched it, though always intended to. Can't recall what drew me to it when it was first being talked about...probably one of the lesser roles is an actor I like ;p