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

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

My junior year of high school, half the boys basketball team got whooping cough, so I guess it's more common than people think.

[tiltingheartand]

Oh, wow, congratulations on that yield. *jealous*

Also, oh man, that sucks that you have whooping cough. :( :( :(

[thediane.livejournal.com]

Whenever I'm sick, I always joke that I have whooping cough, but the thought of getting it was always absurd. But I guess you can get it still! Poor baby :( Feel better *hugs*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

You can, much more commonly than I thought! *hands* Thanks sweetie *hugs*

[daybreak25.livejournal.com]

whooping cough? you mean the one that kills babies? D: what does that mean for adults?

*is freaking out*

feel better, though, and a nice FUCK YOU to the universe. ♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Yeah the one that kills babies! D: It's generally milder for adults cause we all got vaccinated as kids, but apparently it WEARS OFF. Fun times right? I'll be fine, eventually. Sigh. Thanks hon.

I use Frankie going AHHHHH as my sick icon. Frank ♥

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

I got two parking tickets in a matter of hours, once. That... was not fun. :\

But yay for your yield and your prints!

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah it was depressing. I hate the street cleaning schedules around here /o\

Yay indeed! <3

(FRANK FRANK FRANK)

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

Whooping cough went through my high school when I was a sophomore, and I swear half the school was out sick. And I went to a huge school. It was an achievement NOT to get whooping cough.

[jebbypal]

Ummmmm, first, I thought whooping cough when you described your symptoms.

Two, you may want to double check your doctor -- I may be wrong and it may be that whooping cough is only treatable when it's caught at a certain stage, but I'm fairly certain that if you take antibiotics it will clear up faster (plus, they can give prophylatic antibiotics to anyone you've been in close contact with -- might want to mention it to Dara and the like because it is notoriously hard to diagnose unless they actually look for it in the blood work).

*hugs*

[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.

[alazysod.livejournal.com]

Oh, whooping cough. That went around the camp I worked at. It was actually kinda funny, since half the camp would be sick and you could tell which counselors were hooking up by who was getting it next. We called it "the whoop." Good times, weirdly.

(er, sorry to be going all nostalgic over your illness *facepalm*)

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

NINETY PERCENT YIELD? You are seriously my fucking hero. I never did anything that good in lab. What kind of scale are you working on/what was your theoretical yield (in terms of grams/moles)? Hell, what are you making? *GEEK*

Also, whooping cough? Did the doctor say whether you're contagious? Thaaaat sucks. But on the other hand, how many people can actually say they've had whooping cough? Intense.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, you are a DORK. It's not a very large scale at all. 200 mg with a theoretical yield of 160 mg (the reaction converts a CF3 to a CN, thus losing mass) and I made 150 mg or so. \o/ I'm just doing the aforementioned conversion on a deoxyuridine nucleoside (i.e. base + sugar, no phosphate)

She didn't mention whether I'm contagious, though from everything I hear, whooping cough is VERY contagious. However, so far as I know no one around me is sick, so I dunno.

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

I AM. But, like, the smaller your theoretical yield, the more impressive a really high yield is, because the amount that you inevitably use when you transfer it from one vessel to another matters more. So that's pretty damn impressive.

According to wikipedia, it seems to be super contagious for a couple of weeks and then less contagious after that. And the other thing is that basically everyone is vaccinated as a tiny child, although it does wear off every few years. I guess I'm just wondering if we're all going to have whooping cough by the end of this weekend? But if no one else you know is sick, I'm not really worried about it.

Also, your icon ftw.

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

... wow. Whooping cough... that's. Sort of impressive, in a D: sort of way.

Hope you get better soon

[theaerosolkid.livejournal.com]

OH, DUDE! My bestie totally just got scarlet fever, not even lying, wtf is up with weird diseases this year?

[modillian.livejournal.com]

Aw hun, here's to hoping for a quick recovery. I don't know anyone who has had whooping cough, but I can kind of commiserate because it's kind of like how I remember having strep throat when I was really young, and only learning a few years ago that strep throat is another name for scarlet fever, and then freaking out retroactively because I could have gone blind or had organ failure or something like that and my parents somehow neglected to tell me that little fact when I was older. 8|

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
Prints! I got a poster made with some of my pictures from Paris, it's awesome to have in my room to remember and point out things.

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

I dreamed about you and Cobra Starship tonight <_< It's only slightly creepy :X And you didn't look like you do but I knew it was you lol

[pushingyouaway.livejournal.com]

*cookies and hot tea*

i hope you get better!

[rain-dances.livejournal.com]

Ugh I still cannot believe that! :(((( *hugs you* I hope you start to feel better soooooon.

But congrats on your success in the lab! Yay for you!