tonsillectomy stat pls

[pauraque_bk]

I have strep throat AGAIN. Cry.

Unrelatedly, I'm thinking about using my DW journal as a friends-locked thing to talk about my imminent process of becoming a step-parent. I don't want to do it here because it would involve creating filters, a process I hate and have always avoided on LJ. But if I did it on DW, people who wanted to read it would have to visit DW to do so, because you can't crosspost to an LJ filter (and hi, I still hate creating filters). You can give access to OpenID accounts, so it's not like anyone would have to actually create a DW account, but they'd have to go to the DW site.

In my mind this doesn't sound too bad, because I feel like only people who actually wanted to read about my personal life (there might be a handful?) would bother, so I would really know who I was talking to, and no one would be spammed who wasn't interested. And omg, this already sounds like some kind of horrible "if you *really* cared you'd come read my other journal", which is not what I mean or believe at all.

In any case, my normal stuff is not going away from LJ.


eta: Daily Snitch headline: "Voting is on for the fifth round of drabbles at (some community)..."

My brain read: "Vomiting is on..."

Comments

[florahart]

1. There was a year in which I had strep verified by culture half a dozen times. This year sucked so hard OMG. I'm sort of thinking I have a long-running low-grade strep family sinus thing going on now, but it's only periodically annoying, so I'm mostly ignoring it (I know, the healthtasticness of this is astounding).

2. Despite the fact that it was painful like I can't even tell you (no, seriously, vicodin? did not make the slightest dent; percocet was adequate in the sense that I was able to occasionally briefly entertain thoughts of something other than "is it time for the next dose yet? now? how about now?") I think getting my tonsils out as an adult was the best thing I ever did. I bitch about my allergies now, but comparatively, with the mammoth tonsils that caught every bug that came along ever and just made everything worse, now is a walk in the park.

3. I will totally read that.

[pauraque]

I never used to get sick, but in early 2008 that all changed, now it's just one thing after another. I wonder if something happened that caused my immune system to start sucking, or if it's the physical stress of a chronic illness (this started the same time I started showing symptoms of interstitial cystitis, which has no known cause). Before then, I would always use my sick days on days I just didn't feel like working, because I was that sure I wouldn't get sick (maybe a cold at the worst).

I probably haven't had strep enough times for them to offer me a surgical solution yet, not that I have the money to pay for it right now. But I'm not opposed. I am all for brief agony that subverts indefinite suffering.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I approve of your idea of using your DW journal for talking about your step-parenting - or for any other purpose of choice that is not cross-posting the same stuff that you post on LJ, really. And for what it's worth, I would come over and read it.

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're sick! Blech!

I'm, as you know, everywhere you want to be. With polls :P