Be a post whore!

[BigV]

The mistake is that some fool put a freakin castle in the middle of the road. I'm sure that wasn't you glatt.

[Aliantha]

Yeah, I would have picked turn left if the road was clear, mainly because we have a similar system here, except in Victoria, but they're just plain weird down there.

[classicman]

Park the car in the middle of the road and take a picture?

[ZenGum]

Did you try to drive through the castle gate?

[infinite monkey]

I'm fascinated by every word you say, I cling to your words like so many lifesavers at sea. The topics...how do you come up with such amazing stuff? You can't be human, you have to be superhuman to possess such vast and varied knowledge. You're the most interesting person I've ever seen. Your quick wit and razor sharp intelligence make me ashamed to be me. How is it that those who surround you aren't killing themselves to avoid feeling so inadequate? I think you should turn that megawatt personality down to 'low' because you make the rest of us look bad. My GAWD that such a person exists on this earth, and that I KNOW YOU.

No, not you.

[classicman]

IM - please share more ...

[Sundae]

Cheers, Infi. I knew I was getting through somewhere

I am fed up with this bloody cough.
Chest Xray came back clear (HURRAY!) and have finished the course of steroids. But apart from a decrease in the amount of phlegm I am coughing up, I am still hacking away like a hag far too often for my (or anyone else's) liking.

My throat hurts.
My eyes feel bugged out.
I am exhausted.
And tonight I am cold, which is the ultimate indignity for me.

The Doc is calling me back on Friday morning.
Given that he won't be able to listen to my lungs or check the oxygen level in my blood over the phone I expect another appointment later in the day.

I would sigh.
But it would make me cough.

[infinite monkey]

Sundae, you've had this for what, a week or more? Yuck!

A not so big wig (except in her own mind) here has 'viral pneumonia' or so she says. What's that, pneumonia with a really popular youtube video? Of course, no ordinary cold or flu for her, she's too important. But GAWD bless her widdle heart she's a twooper and is here today. Her indispensibility serves us all. I say this as my throat starts to hurt and my head starts to ache and my body goes hot/cold/hot/cold. Selfish beeatch. Maybe she was afraid someone else would lodge themselves up her boss's ass and there wouldn't be room for her anymore.

I'm sorry, did I type that out loud?

[classicman]

thanks, I needed that.
I used a grand total of 7 sick days for my last employer, in the 18 years I was there.
All of them when my son had his accident.
Sick or not you WERE expected to be there.
Needed a reason to not hate where I am - even if for only a moment.

[infinite monkey]

Wow! I'm all about using my sick time, sometimes just for a 'mental health' day. Of course, this is a different environment.

Yes, classic, remember those feelings about that job and it might give you some relief for where you are now. And something is going to come along really soon.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Sundae, you've had this for what, a week or more? Yuck!

A month now.

[ZenGum]

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?

[infinite monkey]

Jolene.

Not really, but it starts with Jo...

[monster]

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. 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.

[Sundae]

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.