Another Super Awesome Dr's Visit
Jun. 15th, 2009 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousapelli1. So I had this pimple, in an entirely undesirable place, and then it sort of became several bumps, and yesterday it turned scary colors, SO, i had to go to the doctor's.
So the male nurse practitioner was like "holy @#$*@#" when it saw it, and seemed puzzled by how blasé I was about the whole thing, but I already knew it was an abscess probably and that it needed lanced, and besides the rats get them sometimes and it's way grosser when they do. This doesn't, on the other hand, mean that I was super happy about being jabbed in the unmentionables with the largest hypodermic needle they make (an 18 gauge, if you wanted to know).
It fucking HURT. but the good news was that all three bumps were apparently the same bump, because everything all drained out at once. Also, EW. And obviously it needs to go on draining which is fine, except you can't tape anything to the area around it because of the hairs.
I have to keep tabs on it because it might turn into the MRSA. HURRAY. My stupid students complain about getting the MRSA all the time like the little hypochondriacs they are, and who gets it? Me.
2. While I was there, i mentioned the tick and had the guy look to see if there were tick bits just to make sure. And he was like "...well there's kind of a rash there." YAY LYME DISEASE. The best part was when he named the symptoms (fatigue, joint pain, headaches) and I was like "...you mean, my normal state of being?" So apparently I could be dying of Lyme Disease and I would never know.
So to review: potential MRSA AND Lyme Disease. I daresay I've had the most productive morning of anybody. So I'm on some crazy antibiotic for everything. STAY TUNED FOR MORE EXCITING HEALTH DISASTERS.
So the male nurse practitioner was like "holy @#$*@#" when it saw it, and seemed puzzled by how blasé I was about the whole thing, but I already knew it was an abscess probably and that it needed lanced, and besides the rats get them sometimes and it's way grosser when they do. This doesn't, on the other hand, mean that I was super happy about being jabbed in the unmentionables with the largest hypodermic needle they make (an 18 gauge, if you wanted to know).
It fucking HURT. but the good news was that all three bumps were apparently the same bump, because everything all drained out at once. Also, EW. And obviously it needs to go on draining which is fine, except you can't tape anything to the area around it because of the hairs.
I have to keep tabs on it because it might turn into the MRSA. HURRAY. My stupid students complain about getting the MRSA all the time like the little hypochondriacs they are, and who gets it? Me.
2. While I was there, i mentioned the tick and had the guy look to see if there were tick bits just to make sure. And he was like "...well there's kind of a rash there." YAY LYME DISEASE. The best part was when he named the symptoms (fatigue, joint pain, headaches) and I was like "...you mean, my normal state of being?" So apparently I could be dying of Lyme Disease and I would never know.
So to review: potential MRSA AND Lyme Disease. I daresay I've had the most productive morning of anybody. So I'm on some crazy antibiotic for everything. STAY TUNED FOR MORE EXCITING HEALTH DISASTERS.
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Date: 2009-06-15 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 05:30 pm (UTC)You need to take care of yourself!
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Date: 2009-06-15 05:43 pm (UTC)I am too cheap to go to the doctor and have carefully and with sterilized needleage done this to myself (the first one, not the tick). The mirrors and position required would probably make the task an excellent candidate for some sort of naked candid camera. Heh.
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Date: 2009-06-15 05:49 pm (UTC)lol male nurse.
My male friend wants to be an OBYGN, but only for women age 18 to 30.
Get better!
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Date: 2009-06-15 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 06:09 pm (UTC)Also, abscesses, eeeew. I once had one in an undesirable place, and then it popped and it made a huge mess, and I was entirely more amused than I should have been.
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Date: 2009-06-15 08:12 pm (UTC)Fight on, Mousie. <3
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Date: 2009-06-15 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 11:30 pm (UTC)Except for the pulsating abscess, it does indeed sound like the setup for a intriguing video.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:30 pm (UTC)thanks.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:31 pm (UTC)These are also symptoms of migraine and fibromyalgia, among other things, so, y'know. Don't panic. Or do panic, but only because it makes for entertaining LJ entries (this is why you like me, because I am all SENSITIVE and whatnot).
Dr. Rana prescribes chocolate and sparkly (or SHINee) boys for all of the above.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:31 pm (UTC)YAY SEE YOU SOOOOON.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:36 pm (UTC)I had a cyst under my bra once that was equally disgusting, and I was definitely just sitting at my computer when it finally exploded.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 11:38 pm (UTC)GANBARIMASU.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:40 pm (UTC)mmm, SPARKLee ♥ Also, picture of the SHINee boys' apartment when up, and they totally all sleep in bunkbeds, with leader's single jammed in the middle for easy maknae access. it was totally the cutest thing in the world.
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Date: 2009-06-15 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-16 06:18 pm (UTC)And hopefully not lyme disease. D-:
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Date: 2009-06-16 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-16 07:19 pm (UTC)