I'm just hoping there isn't some kind of cosmic punchline

[exsequar]

Wanna know something hilarious? I probably have whooping cough! Yep, the one that makes you think of little kids in the 1800s. WHOOPING COUGH! It's bacterial but they can't do anything. The doctor (who was lovely and sweet) prescribed a cough suppressant that I had already bought over the counter for myself and doesn't work very well. So basically the doctor's visit was a waste (I had to pay full price since my insurance is BULLSHIT) except for confirming what I already suspected, thanks to bexone.

Awesome.

On top of that, I got not one, but TWO parking tickets today. Let's not talk about it.

On the other hand, things in the lab are for once the best part of my day. I got a beautiful snowy white product in 90% yield today (that's very good) and it made me quite happy. Finally things are going right!

The other good thing that happened today was that my 102 Dublin prints arrived. They're so PRETTY you guys. I want to roll around in them forever. I can't wait to put them up on my wall!

So uh, way to go karma for giving me freaking whiplash. Ugh.

(Seriously, WHOOPING COUGH.)

Comments

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

It was pretty clear that was it once bexone mentioned it and I read about the symptoms. Sigh.

Yeah the internet said you can have antibiotics for it... but that they're not effective later on? But it sounded like she was saying they don't do antibiotics for it at all. It was kind of weird. Maybe it's a new thing because there's the whole concern about antibiotics being prescribed too freely so bugs develop resistances, and in this case the thing clears up by itself without them so they're considered extraneous? Hm, I dunno.

I know it's supposed to be super contagious, but I've been coughing my face off for two weeks in the lab and none of my coworkers are ill. How long is its incubation time? I assumed i got it on the plane home, though I suppose I could mention it to Dara and Niall. No one I was in close contact with in Dublin has mentioned being sick though.

[bexone.livejournal.com]

I only had a clue because the girl who would eventually be known as crazy-ass roommate got it when I lived next door to her in college, so. And apparently the baby immunizations for it wear off much faster than they thought, but it's only fairly recently that they've started suggesting a booster for it around puberty? So there's a really big population of 20- and 30-somethings who're susceptible at the moment.

[jebbypal]

I admit to not knowing everything about it. However, I know that the antibiotics are an option because my old boss's husband caught it and she didn't realize what she had till it was pointless to give him antibiotics --- and she felt bad since whooping cough can take up to 3 months to clear up (it's frequently also called the 100 day cough). Which is why I mentioned you might want to badger to see if you can get antibiotics for it or not....

Yeah, plane is probably likely. Just thought you might mention it in case --- most people have had a vaccine to it too, it just depends if their pertussis vaccine was recent/effective or not.