So I have bacterial pneumonia. Bad juju. Why can’t I have this shit during the week, and not a three-day weekend?
So sitting around, watching Netflix, trying to drink broth, wrapped up in blankets and taking lots of antibiotics.
What do you guys have going on?
arguingwithsignposts
refereeing between the cat and the kitten and trying to stay out of politics on Facebook.
gogol's wife
Get well soon. I hope your doggie is consoling you.
Evolving Deep Southerner
Go DAWGS, Cock-block ’em! And the Gators. Gotta throw the latter in for the better half. But I’m sincere about the former.
Nora
The only good thing about bacterial pneumonia is that it does respond to antibiotics, so you’ll feel better in a reasonable amount of time. You may feel as if you’ve been run over by a truck for a while, though — when I had it, I wasn’t back to my old self for a whole month.
Hope you feel better much sooner!
WereBear
Bacterial better than viral.
Once you feel better, probiotics! Gotta have your good gut bugs back.
raven
@Evolving Deep Southerner: Arf.
Paddy
One of the great minds here puhleeze tell me where I can watch the newest ep of Downton Abbey online? The site where I used to get them from “self deported” during the big brouhahaha last winter. That, and the newest “Homeland” I’m just jonesing for.
Chris
Mulling over whether to unfriend somebody who just posted yet another “Muslims are evil, and the worst ones are the Muslims who aren’t evil, because they make it seem like not all Muslims are evil” article.
On the one hand, I have a rule never to unfriend relatives. On the other hand, I’ve never even met this one, she’s a couple-times-removed one who just friended all of us out of the blue.
A grave and serious life-altering decision, to be sure :D
raven
@Paddy: Newest what? The last season?
Chris
@arguingwithsignposts:
Speak of the devil!
jharp
I highly highly recommend rubbing Vick’s Vapor Rub or even Ben Gay around your neck and upper chest. Then put on a turtle neck or wrap a towel around your neck.
Keep it on all day and especially put a ton on before bed.
I swear it cuts the get well time in half.
And sleep as long as you can.
raven
@Chris: Fuck a rule. I’ve gone zero tolerance for a lot less than that.
aimai
@Chris:
Unfriend her with extreme prejudice. Think of it like cordoning off your corner of the internet and fb from her toxic spew.
aimai
Bmaccnm
Recovering from a torn knee ligament i sustained trying to get into a window seat. You don’t know what your knees do for you until it hurts like hell when they’re doing it. “Well, THAT just happened”
Linda Featheringill
I’m glad you got medical attention. Take care of yourself and be lazy for a while. Get well.
The weekend has finally started for me. Hooray! I’m listening to blues and getting ready to go out for supper. Not a big deal, but it’s nice to get out of the house.
I could use a lazy day tomorrow. Busy week, difficult week. I was a good girl and cooperative and polite and logical and understanding and all that shit all damn week. Enough!
Boudica
@Chris: Couldn’t you say the same about Christians? Or almost any religion, actually….
raven
Jesus, the Illini are beating bucky!
blahblah
Foraging at the park today! I gathered some a. campestris “meadow mushrooms” last time I was out and it’s about the end of the season for them here. They taste like button mushrooms from the store, but more deeply flavored.
Made some carbonara with the last batch but I have more to use up. Maybe duxelles? Probably stew.
http://imgur.com/SSFJL
But as the agaricus season ends, the pleurotus “oyster” season is just getting started, and they’re my favorite.
KyCole
Still cleaning out the garage- yay! Going to the pumpkin farm with three toddlers and a 6-year-old tomorrow. Should be a blast. Obviously there will be other adults as well.
Shaun Appleby
@Chris: Consider telling her regretfully that you are concerned a current or potential employer might see something that socially questionable on your Facebook wall.
raven
@Shaun Appleby: Why say anything? Pull the trigger, you just vanish. Drive on.
Linda Featheringill
@Paddy:
Downton Abbey:
watchseries.eu has the program. The last installment they had is from 09/30/2012. Is that the one you’re looking for?
[go to the website, click on “series” upper left, choose a letter of the alphabet [D], click on Downton Abbey, choose the desired episode, and then pick a link]
Polish the Guillotines
Playoff baseball: Oakland A’s, baby!
eemom
FB is like All Big Bird All The Time now. I think this is my favorite so far.
jharp
@Chris:
Mulling over whether to unfriend somebody who just posted yet another “Muslims are evil, and the worst ones are the Muslims who aren’t evil, because they make it seem like not all Muslims are evil” article.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Chris:
I use Block for those situations. Allows you to ignore them without the insult of an Unfriend. Of course if you think the insult is warranted, and it sounds like it might be, then go ahead and drop the hammer.
I just blocked a FOAF who went all Crusades over an attempted mosque burning in Toledo.
Pinkamena Panic
Intensive murder simulator training. I’m a danger to the whole world – all I need is a flamethrower and an asbestos-lined suit, or a railgun.
But seriously, I’m staying in and playing games because it’s too friggin’ cold up here for much else. I don’t even have the guts to go down to the store. We’ve even turned on the furnace and filled the house with the unique aroma of burning goats to stave off the cold.
piratedan
home for a long weekend so turning in overdue time sheets….Mom is out for a massage, so I may indulge in some wall of sound antics in the office which will make the dogs edgy but fuck it….
feeling very much in a Joy Division mood today (yet upbeat, not depressed, go figure, maybe it’s just reveling in the fact that the tuneage even exists, y’know?…. RIP Ian C.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9fSjP2fD8&feature=related
Anya
Get well soon, Soonegrunt!
@Chris: unfriend her prejudiced ass. I unfriended a relative who posted something about how gays are evil. I sent her a message informing her why I was unfriending her. Tolerating bigots is what keeps them going.
Mnemosyne
Frantically knitting away to get a shawl done in time for a work event next weekend. I also need to take my bike out for a spin to make sure it’s okay to take to Ciclavia tomorrow, but unfortunately it’s very difficult to knit on a moving bicycle. Maybe I should try harder to talk G onto a tandem so he can steer and I can knit from the back.
JPL
@raven: They could win the division in their conference. Penn and OSU are disqualified from post season.
PsiFighter37
Watching Jurassic Park and hard drank. I said hell yeahhhhh #will.i.am
PF37 +8
rdldot
@Chris: I vote unfriend. Rules are made to be broken.
MrSnrub
We went to the beach today, last visit of the season. The breeze and the waves from the incoming tide made it a bit rough early on, but things calmed nicely.
Sadly it will be cold and rainy tomorrow, but a rainy day at the beach is better than a rainy day at home.
Feel better, sooner.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Hope you get better soon, SG. Antibiotics are your lungs’ friends, but your guts’ enemies.
I’m getting ready to go to Virginia Beach for work on Monday. Another early flight. But I’ll have a hotel room that overlooks the Atlantic instead of a glowering volcano. And little risk of earthquakes this time.
arguingwithsignposts
@Chris: I haven’t had any of the blatantly racist, anti-muslim stuff from people in my feed, but I did discover that you can “mute” people so that only “important updates” will show in your feed. Every time someone’s posted Obambi or Obimbo or Odumbo or whatever, I’ve change the filter on their feed. Might be an option for you. It’s definitely cut down on the stupid.
mark
http://youtu.be/U9G8XREyG0Q
most excellent
gwangung
Mid 60s to 70s in the Puget Sound. Sitting in the shade outdoors, scanning facebook, Balloon Juice and reviewing grant applications.
Sorry, Soonergrunt….but you take your fabulous days whenever you can…
Chris
@Boudica:
Yeah, of course. Sam Harris argues exactly that, which is one reason I’m not especially keen on the guy. But there’s a double dose of hypocrisy when people say that about another’s religion while whining that it’s not fair of you to link them to the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials et al.
RaflW
Headed to a wedding shortly. My partner is officiating. It’s his third since he’s become a ministerial intern.
It’s cool, all three are friend weddings, but it’s also weird, because the voters of Minnesota will, in 30 days, be deciding if Mr. Minister-to-be and I can get legally married some day (already a DOMA law here) or perhaps not in our lifetime – if the amendment passes.
We’ll have fun tonight, toast the bride and groom, and wish them all the luck and love in the world. Because, y’know what, we actually believe in marriage. And our straight friends obviously think that if a gay man can officiate their wedding, he damn well oughtta be able to get married, if’n he wants to.
A Ghost To Most
Decompressing after a five day, no reservations tour of northern, western, and central Colorado. The views on the dirt road through Dinosaur National Monument (along the Yampa River) are very much worth the long drive.
Chris
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
I already have her on block, just happened to visit her page for an unrelated reason and saw the thing. Yeah, I think I will end up dropping the hammer.
Shaun Appleby
@raven: “Why say anything?” Because they understand shame. The biggest lie Right-wing polemicists tell is the one to themselves that they are “nice people.”
R-Jud
Get well soon (er), SG.
Mr. Jud and I are reading The Odyssey out loud to one another in front of a fire in the chiminea on the patio. His Odysseus sounds like Kermit the Frog for some reason. I am refreshing our hot toddies.
Chris
@A Ghost To Most:
Very nice!
That’s on my list of places to see. Actually there’s an entire chunk of the country, the North/Central part (Rust Belt, Great Lakes, Midwest, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains) that I’ve never seen and would really like to (not least because of the number of friends I have who come from one of these places). A roadtrip across the country’s somewhere near the top of my bucket list. See America and die.
PsiFighter37
EVACUATE THE DANCE FLOOR
comrade scott's agenda of rage
Chilling after Week 6 of my 50K Ultramarathon training. Ran 61 miles this week which included an 18-miler this morning. It was 36 degrees out and I ran in shorts and a short sleeved shirt.
By mile 12, my arms were no longer cold but numb, a most excellent heat-dissipating device.
Juju
What did I do?
raven
@JPL: THEY are awful.
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@R-Jud: That’s probably closer to the original anyway, even with the occasional “hi ho” thrown in. Probably a lot closer than movie Greek, which is just a thunderous British stage accent that makes one wonder if the Greeks could whisper.
A Ghost To Most
@Chris:
If you do it, try to do it in a 4 wheel drive vehicle. Some of the best roads are not paved, and guardrails are not an abundant species here.
Paddy
@raven: On “Downton”, I believe they’ve aired two episodes in the ’12 Season, On “Homeland” just the one last weekend.
Paddy
@Linda Featheringill: Thank you so much, I will check it out!
raven
@Paddy: You can always buy it in iTunes or Amazon.
Wally Ballou
@Polish the Guillotines:
Au contraire.
Go get ’em, Tigers!
Maude
@A Ghost To Most:
Did you get any bones?
Evolving Deep Southerner
@efgoldman: But the Gator defense came to play though, no?
Violet
Dang, that’s bad. I hope you’re taking care of yourself and getting the right care. Get well soon.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
I’ve got Ludwig B’s #9, “Choral” on the electrical record-player (Wiener Philharmoniker, with Sutherland, Horne, etc.) and this just sounds stupendous. What an awesomely beautiful thing. I think I’ll stay away from politics and just wallow in the favorite music of the bourgeoisie for a while. It makes me way happier, and my absentee ballot’s already in the mail.
greennotGreen
Get well soon, Soonergrunt. Meanwhile, I’ll see your pneumonia and raise you ovarian cancer, now in my third hospitalization since Sept. 20. I start chemo Oct. 22. Right before then I’ll go to my hairdresser’s and get my head buzzed. It’ll be like putting Kevlar before going into battle. Along the way, I know I’ll have this wonderful BJ community to keep me company.
Political Observer
BOING!
ROMNEY BOUNCE! SURGES AHEAD IN LATEST POLLS!
FLORIDA (Rasmussen Reports) R + 3, (We Ask America) R + 3, (Gravis Marketing)
COLORADO (Gravis Marketing) R + 3
VIRGINIA (Rasmussen Reports) R + 1, (WE ASK AMERICA) R + 3
OHIO (You read that right, OHIO!, WE ASK AMERICA) R + 1
NEVADA (Gravis Marketing) R BEHIND ONLY BY 1!
Did Obama lose the election in first debate? Democrats panicked…
Violet
@WereBear:
It’s not a bad idea to start those now, even while on the antibiotics. Go with a higher dose if dosage options are listed. If you don’t want to start now, start as soon as you’re off the antibiotics.
Your gut is your “first brain”. Probiotics “feed” it, in a way. Making sure your gut is balanced and in shape helps the rest of you heal faster.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: I take a dump on your face and laugh.
QED
Political Observer
@PsiFighter37:
The Romney Bounce is real! Say hello to “President-Elect Romney”.
Political Observer
@efgoldman:
Almost one month to go and the trends are moving solidly in Romney’s election. Looks like the only ones crying on election night will be you and your liberal friends.
raven
@greennotGreen: Our close friend went through the whole deal in July/August and she is doing well. Hang in there.
Violet
@greennotGreen: Wishing you the best of luck, that the treatment is effective and not too challenging.
PurpleGirl
@greennotGreen: Will keep you in my thoughts for an easier time with the chemo and for a good outcome.
Soonergrunt: Rest, take care of yourself and I hope the infection is over real fast. Ask your doctor about a pneumonia vaccine shot. I know they are giving it to seniors as a matter of course at the City hospital clinic I go to. Now that you’ve had one event, maybe they will consider you a candidate for it.
RossInDetroit: Ah, The Ode to Joy. Yes, one of the most glorious pieces of music ever written. Did you know that in Japan it is a tradition to sing it at the Christmas/New Year’s holidays. It started with German prisoners of war during WWI. There’s a video of a performance of 10,000 people singing it.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: the bounce is as real as the hooker you hired last night telling you she really loves you.
gelfling545
@Chris: My belief is that people who are obnoxious such as this shirt tail relation of yours keep on doing it because they get away with it and they get away with it because their non-obnoxious connections are kind people. Now I’ve decided that my fb friends need to be accountable for their posts. On the first idiocy I comment “This offends me.” I do not argue or try to change their minds, just say I’m offended. Since one can customize who sees what posts almost infinitely now it’s not that hard to keep from sending me stuff I find offensive so if more of the same appears I know it’s on purpose and I unfriend them. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not everyone is entitled to my attention.
Chyron HR
@Political Observer:
It’s funny how much more comfortable you seem when you’re spouting things like “Obama’s a stupid lazy
niggermulatto” than you are trying to convince us of Romney’s glory.gogol's wife
@greennotGreen:
I’m praying for you.
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
This reminds me yet again: What ever happened to John Cole’s Beethoven mania? It seems to have disappeared without a trace.
gelfling545
@eemom: This was my favorite
NCSteve
@Nora: What you said. But once the fever and the coughing up of the blood, followed by another month of exhaustion and stubborn racking cough were done, I was left to marvel at the fact that some little pills cured a disease in a few days that, for the overwhelming majority of human history, was synonymous with DEATH.
If you got bacterial pneumonia in, say, 1890, the doctors could listen to your chest and predict with astonishing accuracy how many hours of life you had left, and even tell you the name of the organism that was killing you, but that’s pretty much the sum total of what they could do.
That’s why mothers, to this day, mean when they say “You’ll catch your death!” when they see their kids (of any age) not wearing appropriate outerwear in the winter. It’s not just an expression. It’s one of those creepy little echoes of earlier ages, like Ring Around the Rosies,* when making it to 60 was a BFD, statistically speaking.
And now, bacterial pneumonia it’s just a nuisance, really. A shitton of gawdawful suckass nuisance, but, still, just a nuisance. Less dangerous and unpleasant than, say, as a really nasty case of the flu if you catch it in time.
These are all things I reflected on only after I I was brought to death’s door by my a case of bacterial pneumonia this year, and then watched it vanish–except for the month long racking cough–in a few days.
Which is why people should not fuck around with antibiotics and demand them for stuff they can’t cure, for cripes sake.
*And yeah, I know Snopes said the Ring Around the Rosies-Plague connection is false, but, frankly, their explanation on that one is about as convincing to me as a Glenn Kessler apologia.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@gogol’s wife:
I guess I missed that. I’m listening to a lot of instrumental classical music because I’m on a vinyl kick and I have a lot of great classical records. Plus I’m kinda burned out on vocal music, and pop in particular.
Beethoven is a great cure for the blues for some reason. Even the sad pieces make you feel optimistic. It’s plain genius is what it is.
HRA
“What do you guys have going on?”
Washing and drying 2 weeks of laundry after the serviceman came and released my college granddaughter’s thong from under the drum of the washer. “That’s not mine.” I don’t know if he believed me.
Tomorrow the family crew will be back to mud the room for the 2nd time. I roasted a turkey with stuffing, made coleslaw and a chocolate cake so far.
Hope you feel better soon, SG.
greennotGreen
@PurpleGirl: Years ago, a friend died of AIDS (before modern therapies.) He asked that “Ode to Joy” be played at his memorial service because, he said, it was the most joyous piece of music he knew. Now, whenever I hear it, I think of him and smile. It’s a gift he gave us – a new appreciation of a fantastic piece and of the good one person can do that long outlasts a mortal life.
gogol's wife
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
The older I get the more I appreciate Beethoven. His nobility and anguish are so compelling.
SiubhanDuinne
@jharp:
I didn’t know Mitch McConnell was renting himself out.
JPL
@Political Observer: It would be nice if I recognized those companies. haha
Comrade Mary
Aw hell, Soonergunt. Bacterial pneumonia is a bitch. Rest up, take ALL your meds, etc.
Check with your doctor to see if you’ll be getting probiotics after the antibiotics course is done to avoid complications like C diff. I’m not a doctor, but I know how to use the Internet, and I just found this PDF from Auburn A&M which says it’s recommended practice for goats, and you’re at least as valuable as a goat, aren’t you?
And if you need entertainment, DougJ’s thread from the other day is full of good stuff.
PurpleGirl
RossInDetroit: Have you run into this YouTube — a flashmob (sponsored by a Spainish bank) of part of the Ode?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg
It isn’t the full Ode but it is still enough of it to please the senses.
The is a YouTube of last year’s performance in Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paH0V6JLxSI
Professional orchestra, chorus and soloists and 10,000 amateur voices.
(close to 19 minutes)
Allen
I had atypical bronchitis this spring, for two months before they figured out what would knock it out. My neighbors, who are both physician’s assistants both thought I had pneumonia. Never been so sick in my life and don’t want to be again.
R-Jud
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
Totally. “Be embraced, you millions: this kiss for the whole world.”
I love it.
max
So I have bacterial pneumonia. Bad juju. Why can’t I have this shit during the week, and not a three-day weekend?
What Linda said. What NCSteve say. Take care of yourself, don’t push it (as you are apparently wont to do), and take your pills on time, all of ’em.
Knew a guy who also kept getting pneumonia and couldn’t even get him to go to the doctor. Stupid. Wound up in the hospital at the end of it.
So treat it with care.
max
[‘Because that shit can kill you dead.’]
geg6
Damn, Soonergrunt, that sucks. I’ll be sending get well vibes your way.
As for me, I’m heading to the Bocktown Bar and Grill for dinner with my man. They have a great beer selection and the most delicious fries you ever ate. A big juicy burger, loaded fries, and some craft beer. Yum.
Mr Stagger Lee
@efgoldman: If the BCS championship turns out to be another LSU-Alabama snorefest,the TV execs will put the BCS championships on the third tier networks. I remember the ESPN heads tried to talk up the game but everybody stayed to the NFL. Last years game was the lowest watched championship game.
max
@Political Observer: Almost one month to go and the trends are moving solidly in Romney’s election. Looks like the only ones crying on election night will be you and your liberal friends.
The polls have been moving solidly in Romney’s direction since May and he should be ahead by 47 points now, according to your pals, but he’s not. Funny that.
I look forward to your enthusiastic support of impeachment.
max
[‘Because Romney is still dead meat.’]
dance around in your bones
Anybody here ever watched the “9 by Design” Novogratz’s “re-do” a place? I’m watching one now (sound off, grandkid asleep on my bed) and by Gawd their designs are fucking hideous.
eta: oh, and soonergrunt, I hope you heal quickly.
ranchandsyrup
Cleaned out the garage. Took a walk with the family and the dogs and chucked the frisbee around. Heading to Oktoberfest later on. Nice little Saturday.
JPL
@greennotGreen: My sister-in-law was told she had maybe six months, sixteen years ago. The chemo is different now because she had a two year slog and came through prettier than ever. It’s hard work and if you want to bitch we are here.
ranchandsyrup
@Political Observer: Way to get through some posts with no racism. Golf claps. Baby steps.
JPL
@NCSteve: That’s why antibiotics should not be fed to animals either but they do.
Amir Khalid
@greennotGreen:
I went through a series of hospitalizations after my heart attack in ’06, and I remember how wearying it could be for the spirit. I know you don’t really need to be reminded of this (since you just said you know it), but we’re all pulling for you. Maybe even our friend PO, who’s all excited right now about a bump in the polls for Mitt Romney, the scourge of Sesame Street. PO can’t be so mean he wants you to be sick. Right, Political Observer?
quannlace
Crap, Sooner. Feel better soon. Least you got the ‘biotics’s. Damn, so many people getting sick. My good friend Kathy had a sinus infection and a racking cough for so many weeks I was worried she might have picked up Whooping cough. Finally went to her allergist; nope, just bronchitis. So just double whammy!
Linda Featheringill
@greennotGreen:
Sorry to hear about the ovarian cancer.
Do keep in touch. We’re good listeners. And if you can’t sleep at night, there’s usually someone awake.
[hug]
ETA: You don’t have to answer but have you been staged?
ranchandsyrup
Feel better SG. My go to is pho when I’m sick.
greennotGreen
@Linda Featheringill: Yes, stage 3. Thanks for all the supportive thoughts from you guys.
Meanwhile, has anyone calculated the extent of Obama’s Big Bird bump?
quannlace
Geez, drunk already? Rasmussen is beyond laughable.
Lojasmo
@PsiFighter37:
@Political Observer: the bounce is as real as the hooker you hired last night
telling you she really loves you.actually being female.fxt.
schrodinger's cat
Soonergrunt@top
Make sure you are eating yogurt, one with live cultures, will help greatly counteracting the side effects of antibiotics. Also ginger tea will help clear your sinuses, another drink to try is hot milk with a dash of cayenne and turmeric and about a tsp of sugar, soothes the throat.
gbear
I finally got a call back from the Humane Society telling me that the cat that I was hoping to bring home friday will be in the sick ward until at least monday. So much for using the weekend to help get him settled in.
gogol's wife
@gbear:
I’m sorry you’re having so much trouble. But it will all be worth it!
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: Maybe you need a unicycle.
Political Observer
NEW PPP POLL: ROMNEY WITHIN MARGIN OF ERROR IN OHIO, CHECK TWITTER,
BOMBSHELL!
Political Observer
Sorry, I meant to say Wisconsin.
M. Bouffant
Out to Bar-B-Que w/ a couple of other loafs I’ve known for about 30 yrs. We will complain about young people, old people & our wretched bodies to each other while mocking crap on telebision, & then leave stuffed.
jenn
@A Ghost To Most: One of my favorite places in the world! I love CO’s western slope, and the Yampa is gorgeous.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
I’ve always loved the symphonies and concerti, but lately I’ve really been getting into the string quartets, especially the middle and late ones. So many layers in there, I could live to be 140 and hear something new and profound every time.
PsiFighter37
@Political Observer: OMG I’M ABOUT TO POP A BONER THROUGH MY JEANS!!!!1111
You really are sad and pathetic. Do you have anything better than wanking yourself off mentally to the thought of your relatives being stripped of Medicare and Social Security? If not, there are plenty of Internet websites out there that could help you out.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne: Have a good ride tomorrow. I understand the problem well. The Yarn Harlot (Stephenie Pearl McPhee) often complains about it in her writings. She also complains about not being able to knit while driving. (She gets friends to drive her to conferences and the airport, etc., so she can knit…)
WereBear
@greennotGreen: Damn, that sucks.
Yes, do keep us posted.
jenn
@greennotGreen: Yikes. Best wishes!
Chris
@PsiFighter37:
Oh, come on.
HIS relatives will never be affected.
It’s those OTHER bad people who totally deserve it who will be affected.
Because remember, Romney and Ryan know the difference between the two types of people and they will totally take great care to differentiate between them.
Darkrose
Ack, I’m sorry! Feel better!
I’m doing the antibiotics thing myself. Surprise, after working 12 straight days I couldn’t fight off the sinus infection, so I was out all week.
1badbaba3
@Political Observer: I dunno, Dude. Your boy Jack Welch was telling anyone with a camera that O is cookin’ the books Chicago stylee. You know what that means, don’t ‘cha? Holder is busy mau-mauing the States out of their Jim Crow throwback fantasies. And Murdoch is already getting his Charlie Kane on with a bevy of “FRAUD AT THE POLLS” stories set to run post-Coronation
Maybe you should get ready for Re-Education Czar Bill Ayers.
That’s Comrade Ayers to you, elitist worm!
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
Took some cough syrup earlier, should have read the label, had DXM in it (which I’m supposed to avoid). Oops. But man I feel goooood.
SpaceX might launch its first cargo mission tomorrow night, weather permitting. Good luck to them. Space nuts could use the good news for a change.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
BTW, Good Obama campaign video here, also, too.
Draylon Hogg
@Violet:
I did a food hygiene course a couple of years ago and the tutor informed us that pro biotics are actually a rip off because as soon as the ‘good bacteria’ reaches your stomach the acid kills it.
@soonergrunt you have my sympathies I contracted pneumonia in 2000 every time I breathed in it felt like a knife in the back and I felt so bad I thought I was going to die. The doctor gave me four antibiotics the size of horse suppositories, one a day and they started working straight away but it took me a month to fully recover from it.
Uncle Cosmo
@Political Observer: The day after Obama is reelected, I’d be sorely tempted to put your name on the list for the reeducation camps, with a special request that they waterboard you half a dozen times a day for a month (a doctor standing by to make sure you don’t check out too soon), video the sessions & send me a greatest hits DVD so I can laugh my arse off at leisure–
But I think I’ll just forego the prep & simply laugh my arse off at you. And relish the thought that to you & your fellow cretins, every day of Obama’s triumphant second term will feel like being waterboarded, without the messy paraphernalia.
PsiFighter37
I’m going to dinner. This may not end well.
PF37 +11
raven
@Evolving Deep Southerner: Made it! Nice ceremeony.
Surreal American
This is to reassure PO that he won’t be sent to a re-education camp since he was never really educated in the first place.
Draylon Hogg
@Uncle Cosmo:
Triumphant? Did you spend the last four years with your head up your arse? Will he triumphantly capitulate to the Republicans again, or triumphantly water down his agenda? Perhaps he will triumphantly slaughter more Afghani tribesmen with drones and then follow it up by triumphantly slaughtering any male over the age of 13 who goes to collect the charred and bloody pieces of a member of his family.
JGabriel
Feel better soon, Soonerdude.
JGabriel
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Draylon Hogg:
There are certainly a number of bad bacteria than can survive stomach acid: e. coli, helicobacter pylori, salmonella, etc.
It seems likely that there would be some good bacteria that survives it as well, since much of the digestive work in our stomach and gut is done by those good bacteria.
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1badbaba3
@Draylon Hogg: Uh- oh, party’s over.
MikeJ
@JGabriel: You can always avoid the stomach acid by introducing the good bugs from the other direction. Gives new meaning to “buggery”.
Uncle Cosmo
soonergrunt: Your situation reminds me of this moldy oldy:
Pneumonia of any type sucks but at least the bacterial variety is treatable. Glad you got the antibiotics.
The suggestion from jharp (#11 infra) has merit–after the buggies are dead you’re still gonna feel like hammered doggy doodoo until the chest congestion breaks up, & that will help. If you have a humidifier you might try running it while you sleep (taking care to aim the thing away from the bed lest ye be soaked by the fallout) & adding a dollop of VapoRub. Hot showers with lots of steam help as well.
And once you’re well, look into the pneumonia vaccine.
@greennotGreen: Oh no. What to say except thinking good thoughts for you.
Uncle Cosmo
@MikeJ: Sounds like an Ibsen play: An Enema For The People.
Mnemosyne
@greennotGreen:
Ugh. Other people will have advice, but I only have hugs. Take care of yourself and be well.
@WereBear:
Yes, there’s no way for that to end badly for someone of my noted grace and coordination. :-)
@PurpleGirl:
Poor G always complains because I make him do the long-distance drives so I can knit. I may have outsmarted myself for our trip to Santa Barbara in a couple of weeks, though, because I want to bring my bike with, but the only car that has a bike rack to carry it is mine.
While I’m at Ciclavia, I’m hoping to track down the bookstore in Little Tokyo that brought some really cool Japanese knitting books to Vogue Knitting Live last year. It would be even better if I can find a Japanese quilting book for my boss. Neither one of us reads Japanese, but everything is charted out (and my boss is an experienced enough quilter that she could probably figure a pattern out through trial and error).
Steeplejack
Just got home from an early dinner at an amazing tapas bar in Arlington, La Tasca. It was my reward for assembling some gnarly IKEA furniture for a friend this afternoon, plus she had a gift card, so I didn’t feel guilty. (Would have put the furniture together for free.) The food was amazing. I’ll go back even if I have to pay!
Now checking in on the baseball game and making peace with the housecat, who, I discovered today, really, really, really does not like the vacuum cleaner. She went under the bedcovers and was still there when I got home tonight, and she came out only when she heard the thunk of a can of wet food being opened. She’s now in the meatloaf position on her fleece throw by the computer, but pointedly facing away from me.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Kliban on the meatloaf position.
SiubhanDuinne
This thread’s probably dead, but it’s the only Open Thread up at the moment. So I’d just like to say that I’ve been to the Kitten Cam about eleventy-squillion times today, and those damn cats DO NOTHING BUT SLEEP. Mind you, whenever I check in they are in different sleeping positions, so I guess they’re alive, but I have not yet seen actual movement.
Any better luck for you? http://www.ustream.tv/toocute
Or something like that.Suffern Ace
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes. I caught a few of them climbing about. But they do nap. It’s what kitty cats do most of the time.
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
I just looked, and they’re sleeping. And then I feel ridiculous for staring at a screen when I can see real live kitties sleeping right next to me. They are cute, though.
Bill Arnold
@NCSteve:
This.
I went through this enlightening experience several years ago. My wife insisted that I call my doctor, on the weekend. He listened to my description of the symptoms, and cough, and prescribed Cipro. 12 hours later and I’d have been coughing up blood with the month-long full recovery. (Yes, confirmed with a chest X-Ray 2 days later.)
We are lucky to be living in an age where antibiotics work, mostly. I get cross about casual misuse of antibiotics.
Re probiotics, I expect that at some point in the future we will be banking our intestinal microbiotica for a post-antibiotics fecal transplant.
(According to the wikipedia article, now known as Fecal (faecal) microbiota transplantation (FMT)).
Maybe even adjusting the microbiotica for less efficiency to promote long term weight loss, or more efficiency to stretch food supplies during famine.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
At about 10:30 EDT this morning I reported that a tag-team wrestling match had broken out. It was awesome. One guy even went to the top of the “Capitol” and then pitched himself down into the fray from there.
Furious activity for about five minutes, and then, yeah, they had to sleep for six hours to recover.
Brachiator
@Soonergrunt:
Take care of yourself. Follow all the doctor’s orders. Hope your wife is getting better, too.
I’m taking a break from reviewing some tax returns, trying to make the extension deadline. I would almost trade this for a bout of pneumonia. I just love it when people wait until the last minute, despite all the friendly reminders, and then come up with more stuff that they forgot.
Hunter
@Nora: Ditto — my skinny little butt was dragging so bad I had to sit down for a while when I got to the subway before I could get on a train — I was exhausted from walking a block from the office to the station. That lasted three weeks, and I usually have a fast bounce-back.
As for my weekend — debating with myself over whether I really need a cell phone.
Chris
Dead thread, but I missed this the first time around –
@A Ghost To Most:
Thanks for the heads-up. Never actually driven a 4-wheel drive, so that’ll be interesting… whenever it happens, which isn’t the immediate future.
Also, hammer dropped. Scratch one bigot from the friend list.
Yutsano
@Brachiator: My office has been giving POAs longer callback time extensions just for that purpose. Seems to be a common theme that extension returns are always more complicated and therefore something gets left out. Not to mention income information has already been reported to the IRS so a lot are gonna get kicked back.