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radiantfractureEustace Scrubb has a dashing new bow tie and is quite chuffed.
I, on the other hand, am ghastly ill. It began yesterday morning as I set out for home by car, ferry, taxi, and helicopter (and another taxi, very late); it progressed to full fever and chills last night. I couldn't get warm for hours, and when I got up occasionally to see if the world were still there, the way it rocked and shook and slid away was not at all reassuring.
I managed a sort of sleep by playing West Wing Weekly episodes on endless loop; Hrishi and Josh carried me across the night.
Sometime before dawn I think the fever broke. Today I am definitely ill, but not staggering about as aboard a listing freighter on the wilder sea. I have only little rushes of faintness, as though I were flickering between matter and spirit manifestations.
I have accomplished very little today other than making a few things slightly cleaner than they were before -- and it was largely Eustace who did that.
I did receive some terrific books this year, most of which I am too groggy to read right now:
...The perennial problem of what to do on New Year's is solved, anyway.
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I, on the other hand, am ghastly ill. It began yesterday morning as I set out for home by car, ferry, taxi, and helicopter (and another taxi, very late); it progressed to full fever and chills last night. I couldn't get warm for hours, and when I got up occasionally to see if the world were still there, the way it rocked and shook and slid away was not at all reassuring.
I managed a sort of sleep by playing West Wing Weekly episodes on endless loop; Hrishi and Josh carried me across the night.
Sometime before dawn I think the fever broke. Today I am definitely ill, but not staggering about as aboard a listing freighter on the wilder sea. I have only little rushes of faintness, as though I were flickering between matter and spirit manifestations.
I have accomplished very little today other than making a few things slightly cleaner than they were before -- and it was largely Eustace who did that.
I did receive some terrific books this year, most of which I am too groggy to read right now:
...The perennial problem of what to do on New Year's is solved, anyway.
{rf}
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Date: 2018-12-31 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 02:17 pm (UTC)Get well soon!
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Date: 2018-12-31 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-02 02:12 am (UTC)May this sickness be the only sickness for you this year! Get it out of the way early.
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Date: 2018-12-31 05:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 05:57 am (UTC)Eustace is quite dashing, though.
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Date: 2018-12-31 07:12 pm (UTC)It's not every dishwasher that can pull off a bow tie.
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Date: 2019-01-08 12:05 pm (UTC)Especially such a sparkly bow tie.
Feel better soon/already, I hope.
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Date: 2018-12-31 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 10:18 am (UTC)I don't have time for a rewatch OR a podcast but West Wing Weekly makes me wish I did.
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Date: 2018-12-31 11:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 03:31 pm (UTC)I felt like I had something knocking on my immune system's door, but my seven little phials kept whatever it was at bay.
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Date: 2018-12-31 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-12-31 08:02 pm (UTC)Antibodies. My immune system collapsed in 2009 and I had pneumonia five times in seven months. I have a condition called hypogammaglobulinemia, my body completely stopped producing antibodies, so I'm missing a considerable portion of my immune response. Once a week I do a subcutaneous infusion of donor antibodies, and it normally does a pretty good job of keeping me healthy. Overall, I'm much more healthy than pre-'09. This has been a bad year: I had, more or less, continuous sinus infections from March through October. Was not a lot of fun. Surgery in August re-opened my sinus passages, but it took a couple more courses of antibiotics plus an antifungal to get everything cleared. I didn't know how badly it was affecting me mentally until it all cleared!
There's multiple components to your antibody/immunoglobin (Ig) system. Your sinuses use IgE, which cannot be replaced. The stuff I inject is IgG, which is fortunately the most common component of your immune response.
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Date: 2019-01-02 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-02 12:59 am (UTC)It makes for an interesting life. I'm involved in a long-term study at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and they fly me out annually to do a physical and check out some specific areas to see how I change as I grow older. It doesn't change my treatment, just adds to the body of knowledge as I change. We may be flying out next week, but a couple of complications have arisen that may delay it (the partial gov't shutdown among them). Conveniently we have several friends in DC that we get to see when we're in town.
The condition itself was only formally identified and named 50-60 years ago, so it's relatively new. And as imaging and other analysis tools improve over time, they learn more and more.
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Date: 2018-12-31 06:45 pm (UTC)Hope you feel better-er soon!
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Date: 2018-12-31 07:14 pm (UTC)