Skellington
04-24-2008, 11:26 AM
So, I got engaged, moved to Phoenix, and apparently this signaled my dormant chickenpox that it was time to have a party on my nerves.
I've lived as a medical mishap since birth. I'm ok with it, as in, i deal with it, in other words, when life gets boring, you walk around with a insulin syringe sticking out of your backside or arm to see what type of reactions you get. My thyroid ate itself, my adrenals occassionally pull a magic disappearing act, my uterus is swiss-cheese (not edible), i know about a large majority of medications, their generics, their formulas down to their chemical compounds. I went to med school, not because i wanted to help other people.... no, i'm a selfish ass and just wanted to help myself. Right. I'm 27 and have more organ functionality issues than your grandmother....and she's dead. Ok, i'll admit to it, i have a auto-immune-disorder. No, not AIDS, not HIV. auto immune, as in, instead of those magical cells in the body fighting off bad stuff, they got a little overzealous and destroy...everything. There's a party in my body, why am I the only one not having fun?
Sooooooo. How are the buddayyyyyyyyysssss doing? I'm about 3 hours behind regularly scheduled east coast programming, so i've been a bit out of the loop for....3 months. Oh, and i got this really nasty allergic reaction. I thought it was hives, but it was more blistery looking than mosquito bite looking. Yeah, so these hives spread and itched pretty bad...then they burned....then i had a 102 fever and thought 'this is some allergic reaction, best i party on over to the doctor'. *blinks* Now that i've suffered the pain of bringing a prescription for Valtrex (think giant barney purple pill) and vicodin to the pharmacy to be filled, and rabidly exclaiming "it's shingles, not crotch cooties!".... i think i have a word of advice for the RF world:
Shingles suck. If you've had chickenpox, you can get Shingles, also known as Herpes Zoster (not an STD and not contagious). Thusly, if you have had chickenpox, you should party your ass on over to the happy doctor man and get a herpes zoster vaccine. Why? Shingles suck. Blemishes and itching isn't the end. There's pain. I can't explain the pain, but i daily feel rather black and blue and having a bed sheet on me hurts.
I'd beg for death, but I companied myself with a much bleaker fate: i purchase a computer with Vista home Premium on it. Did i mention that HP's only come with 200w PSU, and MINIMUM req'd PSU to just run vista is 200w? Pardon me, but i have about a billion things to plug in those magical little usb ports and, um, then random blue screen with POWER DRIVER FAILURE annoys the shit out of me. Does anyone at HP know anything about PSU's? of course not. oh well, it's a good machine, i just have to rip out the PSU and replace it with something....more powerful than a 200w hamster. All this because my XP shuttle died, which led to getting a external shell to rip out the HD and make it usb to get 5 years of stuff i should have backed up off it and thank the dear lord of technology and grace that I did recover my crap.
fuck vista, and fuck the shingles.
ps:
it's SO cold in phoenix...that 70 degrees under the shade of the palm tree is killing me. *grins*. I also weight a suave 126lbs from 176lbs back in october. I might be in pain, but at least i'm feeling pretty sexy, minus the pox.....
http://photos.imageevent.com/kriegweasel/alittletoomuchahnie/websize/andrea_sedona2.jpg
I've lived as a medical mishap since birth. I'm ok with it, as in, i deal with it, in other words, when life gets boring, you walk around with a insulin syringe sticking out of your backside or arm to see what type of reactions you get. My thyroid ate itself, my adrenals occassionally pull a magic disappearing act, my uterus is swiss-cheese (not edible), i know about a large majority of medications, their generics, their formulas down to their chemical compounds. I went to med school, not because i wanted to help other people.... no, i'm a selfish ass and just wanted to help myself. Right. I'm 27 and have more organ functionality issues than your grandmother....and she's dead. Ok, i'll admit to it, i have a auto-immune-disorder. No, not AIDS, not HIV. auto immune, as in, instead of those magical cells in the body fighting off bad stuff, they got a little overzealous and destroy...everything. There's a party in my body, why am I the only one not having fun?
Sooooooo. How are the buddayyyyyyyyysssss doing? I'm about 3 hours behind regularly scheduled east coast programming, so i've been a bit out of the loop for....3 months. Oh, and i got this really nasty allergic reaction. I thought it was hives, but it was more blistery looking than mosquito bite looking. Yeah, so these hives spread and itched pretty bad...then they burned....then i had a 102 fever and thought 'this is some allergic reaction, best i party on over to the doctor'. *blinks* Now that i've suffered the pain of bringing a prescription for Valtrex (think giant barney purple pill) and vicodin to the pharmacy to be filled, and rabidly exclaiming "it's shingles, not crotch cooties!".... i think i have a word of advice for the RF world:
Shingles suck. If you've had chickenpox, you can get Shingles, also known as Herpes Zoster (not an STD and not contagious). Thusly, if you have had chickenpox, you should party your ass on over to the happy doctor man and get a herpes zoster vaccine. Why? Shingles suck. Blemishes and itching isn't the end. There's pain. I can't explain the pain, but i daily feel rather black and blue and having a bed sheet on me hurts.
I'd beg for death, but I companied myself with a much bleaker fate: i purchase a computer with Vista home Premium on it. Did i mention that HP's only come with 200w PSU, and MINIMUM req'd PSU to just run vista is 200w? Pardon me, but i have about a billion things to plug in those magical little usb ports and, um, then random blue screen with POWER DRIVER FAILURE annoys the shit out of me. Does anyone at HP know anything about PSU's? of course not. oh well, it's a good machine, i just have to rip out the PSU and replace it with something....more powerful than a 200w hamster. All this because my XP shuttle died, which led to getting a external shell to rip out the HD and make it usb to get 5 years of stuff i should have backed up off it and thank the dear lord of technology and grace that I did recover my crap.
fuck vista, and fuck the shingles.
ps:
it's SO cold in phoenix...that 70 degrees under the shade of the palm tree is killing me. *grins*. I also weight a suave 126lbs from 176lbs back in october. I might be in pain, but at least i'm feeling pretty sexy, minus the pox.....
http://photos.imageevent.com/kriegweasel/alittletoomuchahnie/websize/andrea_sedona2.jpg