Mixed bag

[vanillafluffy]

Thursday night is my happy time. Between Missing and Person of Interest, I'm oh-so-thrilled. This week in particular, Missing made me squee. As I said to J, I love being right! Why have an A-list actor like Sean Bean around if you're going to kill him off in the first ten minues of the pilot? I squeed loudly when he showed up alive and gorgeous.

J wants to know what else I think will happen. I think that Bean's innocent of wrongdoing, that Martin (Keith Carradine) set him up. Because, duh, Keith Carradine. It's some kind of deep cover mission, which is why is file iwas redacted, and that Becca still hasn't seen the real file, because after all, she's NOT with the Agency any more. Furthermore, I think there's a schism in Bean's organization, and that the other side has Michael. (And no, I can't remember the character's name.) What for? IDK, get back with me in a few weeks.

Person of Interest wasn't amazing this week. It was good in that it tied up some loose ends, but it had some really predictable moments, ie, I knew both car bombs were coming. On the other hand, just the *thought* of Reese doing yoga gives me a hot flash.

Real life is not fun. I have a gigantic carbuncle on my right pinkie toe. At first, I thought I was getting a wart, because it was a small, hard bump that didn't hurt. However, it's grown to the size of a hazelnut, and I'm miserable. The skin on my whole foot feels too tight, and my bones ache.

After browsing WebMB, I figure it'll drain on its own, hopefully within the next couple of days. If it hasn't, or if it looks like it's doing anything alarming, I figure I'll find a walk-in clinic before next weekend. Or even the ER, although my healthcare plan is still "Don't get sick"---so I'm trying to let nature take its course. If there's one good thing that can be said about it, it's that I have almost no appetite.

In cheerier news, I've got a small smut fic written and in the process of revision. I'm at the point where I'm happy to have written anything, since I've been in a slump.

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Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, having just seen my kid through a community-acquired staph infection that took five antibiotics to quell, I beg you to go to a walk-in doc and get that looked at ASAP. If it's staph, it can infect your bones and they'll have to do surgery. *HUGS*

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Eeek! Terrifying thought! I'll see how Monday looks. Although I may need someone to drive me. I'm even thinking about blowing off church tomorrow.

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[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Please do find somebody to take you, hon. That stuff is not to be messed around with. *MOAR HUGS*

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I'll make some calls tomorrow. The last thing I want is to end up with flesh-eating bacteria or the like. I just hate spending a bunch of money to be lectured about my weight, which has happened before, regardless of whether my original concern was weight-related. "Got a headcold? You're too fat! A rash? Lose weight! Cross-eyed? Drop 50 pounds! That'll be a hundred dollars...plus lab tests." It's a racket!

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[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

If anyone dares say anything about your weight, be sure to bring up how much you used to weigh AND that you've continued to lose weight. That'll shut 'em up.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I plan to. If I go to the Walk-in place I have in mind, they should have my records from a few years ago, and I'm down at least 20 pounds since then.

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

I confess, I Googled 'carbunkle' because while I've heard the word, I had NO idea what it was.

Ugh.

How on earth do you get something like that? And I agree with pwcorgigirl if it's that big and already causing you grief, you really should have it looked at. All kinds of weird bacterial and autoimmune shit going around these days.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Bacteria, apparently. I'd heard the word, and had the idea that it was a kind of sore, so I check WebMD, and there was a ramiliar-looking picture.

Because it's in an awkward spot, I had to snap a picture with my phone at arms' length to get a good look at it...but I'm sparing my f'list some gnarly visuals.

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[thru-the-blinds.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that! *grin*

[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

Don't be self-conscious and worry about the weight issue~ half of this country is overweight. I've never been to a walk-in clinic for an illness where that came up in conversation. My own family doctor doesn't bring that up in conversation unless I do. Just go.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Dr K is pretty cool. I need to call over there tomorrow and find out what the rate is for self-pay.

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[ang5fam.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine just posted a photo of her elbow on FB~ covered in some weird rash-like thing.Looked to me like shingles (which I had a few years back) but her Target pharmacist told her it's a yeast infection. It's on both elbows, too. She had been working in her yard and the pharmacist said there are all kinds of bacteria in everything. She must have leaned down on something and it got into her skin. It's very weird~ that's why you have to have it tended to as there are so many new strains of things these days. There's no telling!

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, usually I'd lance the darn thing myself, BUT after all the reading I've done, I know that's a terrific way to get blood poisoning, so I've resisted the urge. I do wish it would pop and take the pressure off, though....

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[adventurat.livejournal.com]

I had a carbuncle once, on my upper lip. Painful AND disfiguring, until it ripened and then broke, at which point I was able to squeeze the goosh out. Keep it moist - a little ointment to keep the surrounding skin from drying out. And really, get some antibiotics; that'll take some of the length and intensity out of it.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

On your LIP?! Yeeow!

It's times like this that I really wish that I lived in one of those countries that had a more permissive attitude about what drugs they'll sell OTC!

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[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Staph has gotten so drug-resistant in this country that it's hard to heal up now. Corgikid first saw someone in our family doc practice who does not usually treat him. That first antibiotic did not work and he got much worse (he had a huge boil inside his ear canal -- eeeehhhh!). He went back a few days later in great pain and sick as a dog, and our family doc gave him a shot of two different antibiotics, a sulfa drug, and antibiotic ear drops. That finally did the trick. She sent us a note that he had community-acquired MRSA, which she'd reported to the CDC.

Had we delayed treatment, there's a good chance he could have lost his hearing in that ear or gone into toxic shock syndrome. It was scary stuff.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Good thing Doc#2 was on the ball. Yeah, I'm definitely going to find a doctor to look this over. I don't scare easily, but I'm getting decidedly nervous.

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