Let's bitch about how we don't feel good.

[Rebo]

I'll start.

My right gland under my jaw is swollen. This is annoying.

My right pinky toe is sore since I jammed it the other day. It was getting better until I stubbed it yet again a few minutes ago.

My back decided to spasm on me twice today. I have medicated it.

I have a headache trying to start, but the back meds are helping it a bit.

My feet are dry and cracking and uncomfortable. I sanded them down and put lotion on them - they feel a little better.

My nose is running, dammit.

My bowels aren't cooperating today.

I think that's it, but I reserve the right to add stuff as I deem necessary.

*********************

It's hell getting old.

[wring]

Originally Posted by Dolores Reborn

It's hell getting old.

Word. My left knee and right pinkie hurt all the damn time. Back hurts, too.
Eyes are dry and sore, can't sleep more than a few hours at a time so am tired all the time. Blech.

[Rebo]

{{{wring}}}

[The Superhero]

I'm feeling a certain ennui, verging on existential dread. Other than that, A-OK.

[eleanorigby]

I got new orthotics a month or so ago. Used to be, only my left foot hurt consistently, despite orthotics/exercises/really ugly shoes etc. Now BOTH feet hurt equally. How wonderful.

Had my gallbladder out and felt great for about a month. The nausea despite hunger is back in a big way. One thing, I am losing weight.

I must be allergic to something because my nose is stuffy and I have post-nasal drip.


Getting old is only better than being dead.

[Guinastasia]

It's that time of the month and I'm crampy and cranky, and all I want is to just curl up in a ball and whimper. And drink hot chocolate, but we don't have any.

[Kat]

I have cramps.

The spot on the left where my tooth was extracted is sore when I poke it with my tongue. The spot on the right where my other tooth was extracted hurts when I poke it with my tongue.

People keep saying "Well, stop poking it with your tongue" but the tongue just gravitates there if its own volition, because there is a big, new gap there where a tooth used to be.

ETA: Also, I'm not supposed to brush there, and the perio-whatsis rinse I have to use tastes so awful that I want to throw up every time I use it.

[Zombies!]

The cold I had two weeks ago has left me with a lingering gift, that is muck on my lungs that won't shift and I end up periodically hacking up a lung or two trying to move it.

My back yard is a jungle because the rain has made the weeds spring up like mad, but the rain has also meant the grass/weeds are too wet to mow (or it's been raining and I can't mow) but we've finally had a few clear days so I got the mower out to mow. Good stuff, except now the mower's shit itself so I've got to wait for my grandpa to call me back so I can talk with him about it.

Also there's nettles in my yard. Fucking NETTLES. So now I've got an itchy rash around my right ankle from where I got whipped by a nettle stem and it got in the gap between my pant cuff and my shoes.

[Colonel Plink]

My left foot is swollen and feels like it is badly sprained, giving me the gait of an eighty-year-old man.

Years of spectacularly wrecking bicycles has given me a toothache in my left shoulder. At least that's what it feels like when it's too cold. Or too hot. Or too humid. Or too arid.

And I'm thirty pounds overweight.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by Colonel Plink

Years of spectacularly wrecking bicycles has given me a toothache in my left shoulder.

Say what?

[Flying Saucerian]

Um, arm's in a sling, remember?

Fractured my shoulder about a month ago. Looking at probably at least another month of the sling and staying at my father's house, which is nice but I'm stuck there all day and can't really go anywhere unless I can talk my dad into driving me there like I'm fucking eleven years old.

Worse, the only available bed is playing havoc with my back. This is made worse by the fact I prefer sleeping on my side usually and that's completely impossible. Obviously, I can't sleep on the injured arm and I can't sleep on the other side because the damn sling makes it feel like I've got a freaking cross-beam on top of me. So the past few weeks I've been trying to sleep, popping awake two hours later with my back in agony, casting about trying to get back to sleep, two-thirds of the time I have to get up to pee and it's hard to adjust one's garments with one hand so I generally go back to bed drenched in my own urine...

So, do I win?

[timbicile]

I am approaching a prime numbered birthday* and I feel fine.
My memory sucks but my memory is fine.

*first since 47.

[Kat]

Originally Posted by Flying Saucerian

So, do I win?

I dunno. I'm not totally convinced that is worse than menstrual cramps.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by Kat

I dunno. I'm not totally convinced that is worse than menstrual cramps.

Oh, please--it's not even close. :watch:

[Flying Saucerian]

I would attempt to argue but all the heterosexual men on the board are going, "Don't even try it, man..." :noyoudint:

[Johnny]

SO picked a fight last night. She took off today with her cell phone wall charger, and apparently her laptop and cord. I assume she's not coming back tonight. I'm afraid she's going to move out.

So yeah, I'm feeling pretty crappy.

[Chacoguy]

Originally Posted by Johnny

SO picked a fight last night. She took off today with her cell phone wall charge I'm feeling pretty crappy.

That sucks Man.

[SugarPlum]

I can't decide whether to go throw up again or just put up with being nauseated.

[Rebo]

That does suck, Johnny.

[Colonel Plink]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

Say what?

I tried to pull it all together in the next sentence, but it was too clumsy an analogy to make the trip. You ought to see my attempts at US History

[mothedrine]

I work very hard to ignore my problems.

[Colonel Plink]

Originally Posted by Flying Saucerian

So, do I win?

Like being drenched in your own urine sets you apart from this herd.

[Atalanta]

I'm in.

It's 100% humidity here. But something is up with me--I am cold and clammy. Especially my feet. I finally got off my couch and took a shower and took some aspirin so I feel a little better. But everything I am feeling is worsened by the heat.

My nose is dried out from the AC so I am breathing through my mouth which is hurting my jaw.

I am totally fatigued so I have no energy to cook--so I am not eating.

I am not even wanting to drink because getting up to pee means I have to get up from under my blanket.

I am comfortable in flannel pjs and a ls shirt except for my sweaty feet. It's really grosss!

I don't have the AC on now...why am I under a blanket?

This is horrible and needs to stop now!

[loshan]

I feel dizzy from the antibiotics we are both having to take because the stupid bitch down the road was over here all day yesterday with her kid that had a horrible cough.
Twenty minutes before they (finally) left, they got a call from her camp tent-mate's mom that the kid most likely has whooping cough (epedemic up here).
Stupid fucking vegan, hippy, adventists... leave your shitty coughing children at home when they're sick. What idiot parent lets a kid cough like that for TWO WEEKS and won't go to the doctor because "antibiotics will ruin her natural gut flora"?
Us? We both have HIV. Does she know that? Yeah. Fucking idiot.
Anyway, antibiotics for us for the next week to try to head off pertussis at the pass. I hope like hell it works.

Oh yeah, and menopausal hot flashes that won't let me sleep.

My shoulder is pissed off from an old "swinging at a goat" injury (she was on the hood of my car and wouldn't get down).

And, I too have cracked, dry feet.

[Atalanta]

Originally Posted by loshan

I feel dizzy from the antibiotics we are both having to take because the stupid bitch down the road was over here all day yesterday with her kid that had a horrible cough.
Twenty minutes before they (finally) left, they got a call from her camp tent-mate's mom that the kid most likely has whooping cough (epedemic up here).
Stupid fucking vegan, hippy, adventists... leave your shitty coughing children at home when they're sick. What idiot parent lets a kid cough like that for TWO WEEKS and won't go to the doctor because "antibiotics will ruin her natural gut flora"?
Us? We both have HIV. Does she know that? Yeah. Fucking idiot.
Anyway, antibiotics for us for the next week to try to head off pertussis at the pass. I hope like hell it works.

Oh yeah, and menopausal hot flashes that won't let me sleep.

My shoulder is pissed off from an old "swinging at a goat" injury (she was on the hood of my car and wouldn't get down).

And, I too have cracked, dry feet.

Crap. I feel like a whiny bitch now after reading that. I'm sorry about your neighbor. That sucks...on behalf of other normal hippy (sometimes-vegan) types, I'm sorry.

[boomerwang]

Originally Posted by loshan

I feel dizzy from the antibiotics we are both having to take because the stupid bitch down the road was over here all day yesterday with her kid that had a horrible cough.
Twenty minutes before they (finally) left, they got a call from her camp tent-mate's mom that the kid most likely has whooping cough (epedemic up here).
Stupid fucking vegan, hippy, adventists... leave your shitty coughing children at home when they're sick. What idiot parent lets a kid cough like that for TWO WEEKS and won't go to the doctor because "antibiotics will ruin her natural gut flora"?
Us? We both have HIV. Does she know that? Yeah. Fucking idiot.
Anyway, antibiotics for us for the next week to try to head off pertussis at the pass. I hope like hell it works.

Oh yeah, and menopausal hot flashes that won't let me sleep.

My shoulder is pissed off from an old "swinging at a goat" injury (she was on the hood of my car and wouldn't get down).

And, I too have cracked, dry feet.

I don't have HIV, but I had pertussis 2 years ago, and it's a surprisingly nasty little disease. The only thing that helped me (apart from meds that took a while to work) was keeping really really warm. Get well soon!

[loshan]

Hopefully neither one of us will get the stuff. Heard the cough can last for months.

I just can't believe anyone would let their kid walk around suffering like that...nevermind the visiting people, going to church, etc... for over two weeks, without getting it checked out. Boggles my mind it does.

Oddly enough, we just got a booster vaccine on Wednesday...exposed majorly on Friday. not enough time.

[loshan]

Originally Posted by suckapunch

Crap. I feel like a whiny bitch now after reading that. I'm sorry about your neighbor. That sucks...on behalf of other normal hippy (sometimes-vegan) types, I'm sorry.

I think it's the Adventist part that's the biggest problem

[Atalanta]

Originally Posted by loshan

I think it's the Adventist part that's the biggest problem

Clearly--I didn't even retain that word!

[Atalanta]

Update: I took some of the tomato juice I bought for the lawn (helps manage dog pee burn outs) and drank it on the rocks. Aside from feeling like I'm on an airplane, it made me feel a bit better.

[mothedrine]

Originally Posted by suckapunch

Update: I took some of the tomato juice I bought for the lawn (helps manage dog pee burn outs) and drank it on the rocks. Aside from feeling like I'm on an airplane, it made me feel a bit better.

Jesus girl. How bad have things gotten when the only drinking buddy you can find is your lawn?

[Anacanapuna]

Well, I've been fighting a kidney stone situation for about a year now. I finally went in for lythotripsy in March, but the damn thing is back. I gotta' go get that taken care of.
The pain isn't excruciating now, but it's persistent and intermittent and it makes life a whole lot less pleasurable.

Before I address that, though, I have to get this cough cleared up. Started back in the spring, just a tickle in the throat that made me cough, and pretty soon about once an hour I was coughing up a lung. I've been on two courses of antibiotics, and am now taking one that's used pretty much only when others fail, and that requires daily use of a probiotic to keep from killing off all those gut bacteria that make digestion possible. Then there are the steroids, inhalers, and snose spray to open my sinuses, minimize the bronchial spasms, and possibly mitigate any asthmatic or allergic things that might be going on. I've been told to be patient, be faithful to the meds schedule, and we should see marked improvement in two weeks. We'll decide where to go from there.

Where to go from there? Let's go to Antigua.

[Anacanapuna]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

Say what?

Well, he did say the wrecks were spectacular. I've seen some of the bicycles afterward -- "spectacular" doesn't cover it.

[The Superhero]

I'm happy to report that my bout of ennui has passed, repeat IT HAS PASSED without ever turning into existential dread.

Now I'm just A-OK.

[loshan]

Originally Posted by The Superhero

I'm happy to report that my bout of ennui has passed, repeat IT HAS PASSED without ever turning into existential dread.

Now I'm just A-OK.

Are you sure you aren't just idly hoping it's passed? Myself? I've been fooled before with a chronic case of ennui.
I would have gone to the doctor, but meh...couldn't be bothered.

[KidVermicious]

I feel fine.

I hate that.

[squarepeg]

Stupid fucking nonny paramedic brings in a clusterfuck of a call i go to step up into the back of the rig to help my r knee pops immediate blinding pain and i could not move for a couple minutes gimped my way after them went in and helped tube the pt and get things settled. Didnt say anything to my charge at the time went home took anti inflammatories and elevated.
Somethings fucked. It hurts. I know i need to go do an incident report and be seen.... But i can't afford to be out of work for a minute!!! Shit ! I've got two jobs, one is brand new! Shit shit shit!!!!
Dammit.

[Wolf Larsen]

Originally Posted by loshan

I feel dizzy from the antibiotics we are both having to take because the stupid bitch down the road was over here all day yesterday with her kid that had a horrible cough.
Twenty minutes before they (finally) left, they got a call from her camp tent-mate's mom that the kid most likely has whooping cough (epedemic up here).
Stupid fucking vegan, hippy, adventists... leave your shitty coughing children at home when they're sick. What idiot parent lets a kid cough like that for TWO WEEKS and won't go to the doctor because "antibiotics will ruin her natural gut flora"?
Us? We both have HIV. Does she know that? Yeah. Fucking idiot.
Anyway, antibiotics for us for the next week to try to head off pertussis at the pass. I hope like hell it works.

Oh yeah, and menopausal hot flashes that won't let me sleep.

My shoulder is pissed off from an old "swinging at a goat" injury (she was on the hood of my car and wouldn't get down).

And, I too have cracked, dry feet.

Jesus. That goes beyond having an alternative view on medicine and into giving smallpox contaminated blankets to the Indians. Can you cut her and her sprog out of your lives?

[Atalanta]

Tomato juice and walnuts: for all your heat exhaustion needs.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by Colonel Plink

I tried to pull it all together in the next sentence, but it was too clumsy an analogy to make the trip. You ought to see my attempts at US History

I find your anatomy.... intriguing....

[wring]

wow. I have no right to complain. I rescind my above bitchin' (Thanks, Rebo for the hugs, though, and back atchya)

[Colonel Plink]

Originally Posted by eleanorigby

I find your anatomy.... intriguing....

I hope you don't say that to all the boys...

[Flying Saucerian]

Originally Posted by KidVermicious

I feel fine.

I hate that.

(Runs over, kicks KidVermicious in the nuts)

Better?

[jali]

loshan,

I want to punch that hippy bitch on your behalf. Damn. Sending healing vibes.


I'm mostly better now and I go to my doctor tomorrow.

The don't feel good part is my mind right now and I can't get it together. I really am a little crazy. Hopefully my doctor will sort me out.

[Chacoguy]

I'm online.

This sucks.

[eleanorigby]

[nitpick(that I forgot to post earlier)] It's don't feel WELL. [/nitpick(that I forgot to post earlier)]


Those hippies need to be taken out and beaten. Or made to have whooping cough. Bastards.

My feet hurt again after 3 hours of yardwork. Plus, I used GooGone to get rid of this sticky stuff earlier this morning and now my hands stink of GooGone.

[picunurse]

I have a toothache.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by jali

loshan,

I want to punch that hippy bitch on your behalf. Damn. Sending healing vibes.

This line picked me up.

Thanks, jali!

[Colonel Plink]

Originally Posted by picunurse

I have a toothache.

Where?

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by Colonel Plink

Where?

<laughing>