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#10901
Tiste Simeon 
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Posted 04 May 2014 - 06:33 PM
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
#10902
Traveller
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Posted 04 May 2014 - 07:25 PM
Sombra, on 04 May 2014 - 02:43 AM, said:
Don't know if this belongs in the other thread but oh well ...
I'm back from field well over a week early. To be more accurate, I was out of field before 3 days was up. To do this all I had to do was completely lose my appetite leading myself and other to think I was having some sort of anxiety attack (days 2 and 3 were very stressful for my particular section, even if it only was admin), but this was revised when I saw the medic, asking for stuff for a sore throat and he gave me some strepsils and told me to come back if i felt worse. A few hours later I had a temp of over 39C, my blood pressure had crashed from around 115-120 / 70 to about 42 / 20, I had the shakes something fierce, no energy etc and these funny pimple/pustule things coming up on my tongue and back of throat. Medic sends me back to the military hospital in Brisbane. This is Tuesday night, after heading out on Sunday morning.
The military hospital keeps me only overnight. In an isolation section. The pain relief they have can't help me sleep as my throat feels like it's on fire and every time I swallow I'm almost in tears. This is not very manly at all. I haven't eaten in nearly 2 days by now. Next thing I know it's Wed morning and there are these civvy paramedics in my room putting me on to one of those stretchers that look like they're out of Star Trek. Then they cannulate both arms. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate needles? My temp is still about 38C or so, BP still around 45 / 25, or so they tell me. All I want is to be able to eat something. If I had any appetite, that is.
After a ride where the trainee ambulance driver manages to find every pothole between Enoggera and the Royal Brisbane Hospital (turns out there's quite a few), I'm in Emergency at the RBH. I stay there a while as various smart people come and go and quiz me about when I was last overseas and my sexual history. My standard answer becomes "2009, and I have a toddler so I don't get any". Eventually after much yadda yadda yadda they send me to the infectious diseases unit. The room is very nice, and as I'm a military patient, I'm treated like a private patient. Score! It's also funny as I'm a Private. Ha freaking ha.
By the time I get discharged I have had about 12-14 saline and maybe 8 bags of 2 types of broad-spectrum antibiotics in me in cannula points on the inside of both elbows (MOST uncomfortable). I've had blood taken about 7-8 times and they think it's cute I insist on the emla cream when they can't use the cannula to draw blood. "That's for kids" they tell me. "I don't give a shit" I smile back. I have 12 pustules on my tongue and noone can count the ones on my throat but they feel like they're the size of golf balls. I discover Endone. Sweet, sweet Endone. I start to recover - BP goes up, temp starts to come down a bit more from "Mt Doom toasty" to "Mordor ambient". I actually try to eat some of the stuff they bring me. Anything that is not bland and pureed just hurts. But I manage to get some of it down, in larger and larger amounts each time. By the time my unit brings the Mrs and toddler (they put our kids seat in the beack of the duty vehicle) to see me, the flying wedge of infectious diseases doctors have given me the happy news that it's definitely not the HIV or the Hep or anything nasty like that. No, it's most likely (pending final results next week) to be some shit called cocksackie virus http://en.wikipedia..../Coxsackievirus
I think it just sounds like cocksucker virus, especially with the whole tongue-and-throat-pustules thing. They frown when I start laughing and explain why. They tell me I have had a "Serious Viral Episode" (I shit you not, you could even hear the capitals in the lead doc's voice).
"Is that like the Red Wedding?" I ask. One of them laughs, the youngest dude. The rest don't get it.
Apparently the fact my kid started at daycare this year could have something to do with it. No wonder I've been ill so much this year, those places are like goddamn petri dishes.
They tell me as my vitals have gone back to almost normal I can get discharged if I want. Otherwise it's stay in over the weekend. I'm dressed before they finish the sentence. I'm going to miss all the ice cream, jelly (NOT jell-o you illiterates) and yoghurt the food ladies kept adding to my tray when I couldn't eat much else. See, even in a near-death experience my body still prefers the good stuff.
I get brought home in the duty vehicle on Friday afternoon. We drop the Mrs and Mini-Sombra off and I continue to base so I can fill in a sick leave form. Everyone stays well away from me - if only it could always be like this. I freak them out by poking my tongue out at them with all the cool pustules on it. Then I take my car home. Very, very slowly because of the MASSIVE FUCKING DOWNPOUR as well as my slightly-diminished skills. I get home safely and go to bed for a bajillion hours.
Feeling much better now. Still can't have anything scratchy on the throat, but I have been destroying the custard/yoghurt/ice cream/etc. The Mrs tells me I've lost weight so I take a look at myself in the mi.rror. It appears I have. All that hard work at PT now gone, back to Mr Skinny Muppet Arms. Oh well. At least I'm getting better and don't go back to work until Wednesday.
I'm back from field well over a week early. To be more accurate, I was out of field before 3 days was up. To do this all I had to do was completely lose my appetite leading myself and other to think I was having some sort of anxiety attack (days 2 and 3 were very stressful for my particular section, even if it only was admin), but this was revised when I saw the medic, asking for stuff for a sore throat and he gave me some strepsils and told me to come back if i felt worse. A few hours later I had a temp of over 39C, my blood pressure had crashed from around 115-120 / 70 to about 42 / 20, I had the shakes something fierce, no energy etc and these funny pimple/pustule things coming up on my tongue and back of throat. Medic sends me back to the military hospital in Brisbane. This is Tuesday night, after heading out on Sunday morning.
The military hospital keeps me only overnight. In an isolation section. The pain relief they have can't help me sleep as my throat feels like it's on fire and every time I swallow I'm almost in tears. This is not very manly at all. I haven't eaten in nearly 2 days by now. Next thing I know it's Wed morning and there are these civvy paramedics in my room putting me on to one of those stretchers that look like they're out of Star Trek. Then they cannulate both arms. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate needles? My temp is still about 38C or so, BP still around 45 / 25, or so they tell me. All I want is to be able to eat something. If I had any appetite, that is.
After a ride where the trainee ambulance driver manages to find every pothole between Enoggera and the Royal Brisbane Hospital (turns out there's quite a few), I'm in Emergency at the RBH. I stay there a while as various smart people come and go and quiz me about when I was last overseas and my sexual history. My standard answer becomes "2009, and I have a toddler so I don't get any". Eventually after much yadda yadda yadda they send me to the infectious diseases unit. The room is very nice, and as I'm a military patient, I'm treated like a private patient. Score! It's also funny as I'm a Private. Ha freaking ha.
By the time I get discharged I have had about 12-14 saline and maybe 8 bags of 2 types of broad-spectrum antibiotics in me in cannula points on the inside of both elbows (MOST uncomfortable). I've had blood taken about 7-8 times and they think it's cute I insist on the emla cream when they can't use the cannula to draw blood. "That's for kids" they tell me. "I don't give a shit" I smile back. I have 12 pustules on my tongue and noone can count the ones on my throat but they feel like they're the size of golf balls. I discover Endone. Sweet, sweet Endone. I start to recover - BP goes up, temp starts to come down a bit more from "Mt Doom toasty" to "Mordor ambient". I actually try to eat some of the stuff they bring me. Anything that is not bland and pureed just hurts. But I manage to get some of it down, in larger and larger amounts each time. By the time my unit brings the Mrs and toddler (they put our kids seat in the beack of the duty vehicle) to see me, the flying wedge of infectious diseases doctors have given me the happy news that it's definitely not the HIV or the Hep or anything nasty like that. No, it's most likely (pending final results next week) to be some shit called cocksackie virus http://en.wikipedia..../Coxsackievirus
I think it just sounds like cocksucker virus, especially with the whole tongue-and-throat-pustules thing. They frown when I start laughing and explain why. They tell me I have had a "Serious Viral Episode" (I shit you not, you could even hear the capitals in the lead doc's voice).
"Is that like the Red Wedding?" I ask. One of them laughs, the youngest dude. The rest don't get it.
Apparently the fact my kid started at daycare this year could have something to do with it. No wonder I've been ill so much this year, those places are like goddamn petri dishes.
They tell me as my vitals have gone back to almost normal I can get discharged if I want. Otherwise it's stay in over the weekend. I'm dressed before they finish the sentence. I'm going to miss all the ice cream, jelly (NOT jell-o you illiterates) and yoghurt the food ladies kept adding to my tray when I couldn't eat much else. See, even in a near-death experience my body still prefers the good stuff.
I get brought home in the duty vehicle on Friday afternoon. We drop the Mrs and Mini-Sombra off and I continue to base so I can fill in a sick leave form. Everyone stays well away from me - if only it could always be like this. I freak them out by poking my tongue out at them with all the cool pustules on it. Then I take my car home. Very, very slowly because of the MASSIVE FUCKING DOWNPOUR as well as my slightly-diminished skills. I get home safely and go to bed for a bajillion hours.
Feeling much better now. Still can't have anything scratchy on the throat, but I have been destroying the custard/yoghurt/ice cream/etc. The Mrs tells me I've lost weight so I take a look at myself in the mi.rror. It appears I have. All that hard work at PT now gone, back to Mr Skinny Muppet Arms. Oh well. At least I'm getting better and don't go back to work until Wednesday.
Otherwise known as hand, foot and mouth. Nurseries are terrible places, I hadn't been ill for years until my kids started at one. Snots and shits and weird skin things and colds and coughs and conjunctivitis and fuck knows what else. Oh, she came home with worms once. Jebus.
Hope you feel better soon man.
I'm just happy now I have Godzilla tickets booked.
This post has been edited by Traveller: 04 May 2014 - 07:29 PM
So that's the story. And what was the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge.
#10903
Tsundoku
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 01:18 AM
Much less conflicted today: went back to work, reported to the Doc as ordered and he gave me the rest of the week off as I'm still recovering. In his words "you feel OK at the moment, but in an hour or 2 you'll fall flat on your face".
Fair enough, I'll take that. Felt a bit guilty when I went back to the office to let them know and there was only 3 people there. Fortunately it has been been very quiet while I've been away so there's that at least.
(.... aaaand fire away ...
)
Fair enough, I'll take that. Felt a bit guilty when I went back to the office to let them know and there was only 3 people there. Fortunately it has been been very quiet while I've been away so there's that at least.
(.... aaaand fire away ...
)
This post has been edited by Sombra: 07 May 2014 - 01:19 AM
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#10905
Solidsnape
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- From good 'ol Newcastle upon Tyne.
Posted 10 May 2014 - 03:01 AM
My nephew has had his cochlear implants fitted today without incident.
5 years old, and 6 hours of surgery. Such a brave boy.
He's been through so much recently, I hope he gets well soon and I'm SUPER proud of him.
5 years old, and 6 hours of surgery. Such a brave boy.
He's been through so much recently, I hope he gets well soon and I'm SUPER proud of him.
"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.
#10907
Gothos
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Posted 10 May 2014 - 09:17 PM
Got the gf to play Skyrim for an hour or so. She's never played any games but she's learning quickly. She's not thinking of it as a torment, and she likes how there's food and you can sit in stuff and there's flowers to pick etc... but she seems to not have a thing for violence, so that might be a problem... 
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
#10908
Tiste Simeon
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Posted 11 May 2014 - 03:27 PM
Morgoth, on 10 May 2014 - 08:00 PM, said:
Champagne and the Eurovision!
Despite the song being truly awful, that winning track did well in that it seems a lot of people voted partly to annoy Russia!
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
#10909
QuickTidal
- Lord of the Waters
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- Group: Team Quick Ben
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- Joined: 05-November 05
- Location:At Sea?
- Interests:DoubleStamping. Movies. Reading.
Posted 11 May 2014 - 08:40 PM
I got married yesterday afternoon to the most amazing woman ever.
Best day of my life.
Best day of my life.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#10911
Tiste Simeon
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Posted 11 May 2014 - 09:12 PM
QuickTidal, on 11 May 2014 - 08:40 PM, said:
I got married yesterday afternoon to the most amazing woman ever.
Best day of my life.
Best day of my life.
You married my wife??
*tumbleweed*
In all seriousness, congrats old chap. Enjoy every second of your honeymoon!
A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.
#10912
QuickTidal
- Lord of the Waters
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- Interests:DoubleStamping. Movies. Reading.
Posted 11 May 2014 - 09:36 PM
worry, on 11 May 2014 - 09:08 PM, said:
What books did you get for the honeymoon?
So far? SKIN GAME and BROKEM HOMES...and I'm petitioning Anthony Ryan for TOWER LORD as an arc.
Tisteon Simeonus, on 11 May 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 11 May 2014 - 08:40 PM, said:
I got married yesterday afternoon to the most amazing woman ever.
Best day of my life.
Best day of my life.
You married my wife??
*tumbleweed*
In all seriousness, congrats old chap. Enjoy every second of your honeymoon!
Thanks man! I'm sure we all married the most amazing woman ever.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#10913
Studious Lock
- Whore of the State
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- Group: Tehol's Blissful Chickens
- Posts: 135
- Joined: 12-August 11
- Location:South Yorkshire
- Interests:Playing sexy, sexy mandolin.
Posted 11 May 2014 - 09:39 PM
cant find the chat thread. COME CHAT. THAT WILL MAKE ME HAPPY.
Hi, I'm Tom, and I put the Man in Mandolin.
#10914
tiam
- Ascendant
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- Posts: 3,948
- Joined: 26-January 06
Posted 11 May 2014 - 10:27 PM
Gothos, on 10 May 2014 - 09:17 PM, said:
Got the gf to play Skyrim for an hour or so. She's never played any games but she's learning quickly. She's not thinking of it as a torment, and she likes how there's food and you can sit in stuff and there's flowers to pick etc... but she seems to not have a thing for violence, so that might be a problem...
My gf had never played a game before. Shes now on her second Skyrim playthrough and shouts at the screen when shes killed. Now shes hooked.
MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
#10915
TheRetiredBridgeburner
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Posted 12 May 2014 - 06:25 AM
QuickTidal, on 11 May 2014 - 08:40 PM, said:
I got married yesterday afternoon to the most amazing woman ever.
Best day of my life.
Best day of my life.
Congratulations!
Set myself a goal with doing the 30 Day Shred (which I've just finished) - not a weight goal as I don't weigh myself but just a size/shape thing. Managed it and then some - I have a Marauder's Map dress which was definitely not coming out until I'd achieved what I wanted. It can come out now
- Wyrd bið ful aræd -
#10916
Raymond Luxury Yacht
- Throatwobbler Mangrove
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- Posts: 5,600
- Joined: 02-July 06
- Location:The Emerald City
- Interests:Quiet desperation and self-loathing
Posted 12 May 2014 - 10:31 PM
Love this baby, even though he did shit himself so badly today that I had to wash his hair.
This post has been edited by Raymond Luxury Yacht: 12 May 2014 - 10:33 PM
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#10917
Abyss
- abyssus abyssum invocat
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- Group: Administrators
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- Joined: 22-May 03
- Location:The call is coming from inside the house!!!!
- Interests:Interesting.
Posted 13 May 2014 - 01:57 PM
QuickTidal, on 11 May 2014 - 08:40 PM, said:
I got married yesterday afternoon to the most amazing woman ever.
Best day of my life.
Best day of my life.
Congrats QT, that's awesome.
THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT
#10918
QuickTidal
- Lord of the Waters
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- Group: Team Quick Ben
- Posts: 21,476
- Joined: 05-November 05
- Location:At Sea?
- Interests:DoubleStamping. Movies. Reading.
Posted 13 May 2014 - 02:02 PM
Thanks to all for the rep and comments. I'm pretty damned happy!
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
#10919
HiddenOne
- Mortal Sword
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- Joined: 29-May 10
Posted 13 May 2014 - 03:52 PM
Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 12 May 2014 - 10:31 PM, said:
Love this baby, even though he did shit himself so badly today that I had to wash his hair.
there may be some online tutorials about correct installation of diapers that would be of benefit to you, RLY
This post has been edited by HiddenOne: 13 May 2014 - 03:52 PM
HiddenOne. You son of a bitch. You slimy, skulking, low-posting scumbag. You knew it would come to this. Roundabout, maybe. Tortuous, certainly. But here we are, you and me again. I started the train on you so many many hours ago, and now I'm going to finish it. Die HO. Die. This is for last time, and this is for this game too. This is for all the people who died to your backstabbing, treacherous, "I sure don't know what's going on around here" filthy lying, deceitful ways. You son of a bitch. Whatever happens, this is justice. For me, this is justice. Vote HiddenOne Finally, I am at peace.
#10920
Solidsnape
- Emperor
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- From good 'ol Newcastle upon Tyne.
Posted 13 May 2014 - 07:24 PM
My little boy now joins the ranks of the big boys.
Second night running in the big boys bed!!
I was so full of sinful pride this morning when he got up and came to the gate shouting "Daddy!"
He was plenty proud of himself too.
Little poop.
I knackered the both of them out playing football before bath time, so he's flat out now, going for his 2nd time. Hope I haven't jinxed it!!
Second night running in the big boys bed!!
I was so full of sinful pride this morning when he got up and came to the gate shouting "Daddy!"
He was plenty proud of himself too.
Little poop.
I knackered the both of them out playing football before bath time, so he's flat out now, going for his 2nd time. Hope I haven't jinxed it!!
This post has been edited by Solidsnape: 13 May 2014 - 07:24 PM
"If you seek the crumpled bones of the T'lan Imass,
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.
gather into one hand the sands of Raraku"
The Holy Desert
- Anonymous.
