#now I have chicken pox

[chajonas]

If I got a penny everytime I finished binging Never Have I Ever season in one sitting while I was sick and in a quarantine, I'd get 2 pennies which is not much, but it's weird that it happened twice.

And it's always the season that have Gigi Hadid narrated an eps. At least, this one didn't give a shock ending that I needed to find closure in ao3. This season gave me so much serotonin, bittersweet happiness, a closure, and shedding my tears twice.

I'm just so proud of Devi' growth through all the seasons. My favorite chaotic little indian bossgirl. I'll miss you, Nerd(s)!

[changingplumbob]

Today had no spiders so you would assume that went better for me than yesterday but not quite. My computer antics today included playing a day and a half of a sim family and renovating a house to look like a therapy clinic. Boy did I have glitches. I'm talking TOOL not letting me toggle active object on some sims, only four students spawning at prom and a confident sim not being able to select a swim option as they were greyed out because said sim was too uncomfortable. Said sim didn't even have any negative moodlets. I removed the most recent script mod and it seemed to settle but that means bye bye to the cute blush when flirty.

Now onto non virtual life. I bet you didn't know that a very small proportion of people cannot produce proper antibodies for Chicken Pox meaning they'll get it more than once. I am people, I've had it five times, none as bad as the first time but still clearly Chicken Pox. This morning I seem to have once again developed, as I like to non affectionately call it, the plague. The lumps are coming up and it explains my loss of appetite the past few days.

Since this issue is rare there is not a lot of science around it. The length of time I have the virus varies, as does the severity, so I'm not too sure how much it'll affect me. This one time I got them all over my palms and therefore couldn't use my hands properly. SBL is queued through the month but Rotations and Growing with Glenn each only have one more post set up so there will likely be a gap. Just a heads up in case they stop suddenly it's not because I've fallen out of love with my characters. It's because being itchy is tiring.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

teachers are probably the career in this country that have the worst deal wrt sick days and such

[running-in-the-dark]

a random thing I just thought about: I had chicken pox when I was a kid, I think maybe 9 or 10? I remember being sent to my grandma's house for two weeks until I was better. I always thought that made sense so that my youngest brother, who would've been quite young, didn't get it too. but I just remembered that I'm pretty sure my other brother also had it at the same time?! and he stayed at home. so I think my mother just didn't want to deal with me when I was sick.

that would also explain a memory I have of lying on the couch when I was sick and my mother bringing me a bowl of soup. I was so confused. I remember that feeling so clearly. like 'what is she doing? why is she being so nice and giving me soup?'. I genuinely didn't get it.

every other time I was sick it was just: stay in bed with no entertainment or company whatsoever, and shitty home remedies - seriously, having onions strapped to my ears NEVER made my ear aches any better, and having thyme essential oils put on my pillow + in an oil burner thing in my room only made my face hurt (I'm allergic or at least very sensitive to most scents), and homeopathy... well obviously that didn't do anything.

so, I guess I'm glad I was at my grandma's for those two weeks. at least I got to lie on the couch and watch tv all day! and she was nice to me! I'm sure she made me lots of soup, or whatever I asked for.

[becauseanders]

pray for me and my doctor’s appointment tomorrow morning because it’s not my usual primary care doctor who always listens to and believes me, but they just squeezed me in with the earliest available person as soon as they possibly could because i definitely have shingles and it hurts so fucking much so here’s hoping it’s a quick visit, that i don’t have to fight to be taken seriously, and that they can do something to help (especially when this is absolutely awful timing with my bet mitzvah being this saturday!)

[queermania]

the bad news: i have shingles again and it hurts like a motherfucker again and is accompanied by a ridiculous fever again why does this ailment exist it's so stupid

the good news: i'm gonna watch dog dean afternoon about it

[littlepetbee]

oh we're rill allergic to the christmas tree this year lads

[chthonicathenean]

Pour one out for all the Millenials whose parents had them get chicken pox on purpose because an adult case is worse than a pediatric case!

I have a theory about gen z and millennials, so please help me out with this poll.

Please make sure to vote as to whether you got vaccinated as a child or not, if you did not get chicken pox. Take care, spread this around, and vaccinate your fucking kids. Poll is not exclusive to any country. Vote no matter where you're from.

[ms-demeanor]

Has anything actually gotten better, for all the work you talk about doing? Or is it just treading water in misery forever?

Anon, ten years ago gay people couldn't get married in large parts of the US. AIDS was an almost certain death sentence when I was in high school. I was looking at job boards the other day and found a part time gas station job that had health insurance as a benefit, which NEVER would have happened 15 years ago. When I was a kid, hitting your child was extremely normalized in the US and my parents were the weird ones for not doing it. There is a vaccine for chicken pox. I didn't meet anyone who had transitioned until my 20s because it was so uncommon to transition in the aughts, and now there are some states that protect your right to have gender affirming care provided by your health insurance. It's not all states, but it's better than the number of states that had it in 2010, which was zero. THERE ARE TENANTS UNIONS NOW. WE HAVE A VACCINE AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER.

And all of that has been the work of a lot of individuals and organizations and research teams and activists.

[elpsycongruent]

me, getting an MRI: no fear

mosquitos: *bite me multiple times when I have to stay perfectly still and can't swat or scratch*

me: one fear

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Having Shingles again is seriously the worst. Ugh! Why won't they go away, and why does it seem to be spreading? (In a way it seems like it wasn't supposed to? Like, my doctor said it should stay on one side of your body. And then I looked it up on the Internet after that, and it seemed to agree. But now instead of having it just on my right arm, I have a little bit by my left shoulder, too.) I took all the medicine I was supposed to and have been so careful to not touch it, so I won't spread it:(

[ladycynthiana]

I have one right in the middle of my forehead, and maybe one on my left arm somewhere. I'm right handed. I probably caught it at school or from my siblings who caught it at school. They all 3 had it worse than me and my mom had to take care of 4 children ranging from 3-13 who were absolutely miserable for 10 days. Value your vaccines, kids.

I just noticed that I still have some chicken pox scars even as an adult, so i'm curious. If you have scars from it, are they more on the left side of your body or the right? Mine are all on my right!

I wasn't given it on purpose, but I had a very miserable summer break in elementary school where i just stared out the window and tried not to itch.

[hemogoblin46]

Bro I'm not online for two days and one of my posts has 186 notes...what the hell is this website

[unveilandresist]

by January 10th 1 in 3 people will have had this wave of covid. covid causes long term damage with each infection and wears down your immunity. you do not want this. there is no cure for long covid or me/cfs and there is a significant chance (last I checked I think it was 1/5 infections) of getting long covid that increases with each infection. please protect yourself and your loved ones by wearing a mask. variants have become more transmissible so a n95 or kn95 is the minimum protection to keep yourself reasonably safe(r) from getting covid.

it is important to understand often viruses do not simply clear up and go away. like chicken pox and shingles or what we now think of as polio that is actually post polio syndrome. polio symptoms were mild and 75% of cases are asymptomatic. we do not yet see the full scope of what this virus will do over our lifetimes. as someone who had my entire life derailed by me/cfs after having mono, (almost 10 years ago! it hasn't gotten better!) we have to take pathogens more seriously if we care about ourselves and our communities.

I'm willing and open to talk with people who want to understand better what covid does to our bodies and how we can best practice community care and also harm reduction if we're stuck in unsafe situations at home or work (certain mouthwashes and nasal sprays can help).

if you're watching what's happening in Palestine and live in the US, the government doesn't care about your life either. They lied about palestine and they lied about covid too. It is not just a cold.

[cocklessboy]

I never heard the word “transgender” until I was in my last year of university in the mid-00s, and when I thought “could I be a trans man?” the resounding answer was “no of COURSE not, trans people always know they’re trans, everyone knows what gender they are from birth, you would have known since you were a toddler.” Took me till I was 35 to work it out.

In the meantime, I was trying to find a label that fit. I wasn’t feminine, but I wasn’t allowed to be masculine if I wanted to date men (and I tried dating women but it didn’t go well because turns out I’m gay). I knew I was some variety of queer but had no label. I joined the university LGBT club and all the gays and lesbians (who regularly ranted about how bisexuals weren’t real and people who said they were bi should “pick a side”) told me I was obviously a lesbian, I just needed to find the right girl. I couldn’t be straight, after all, because straight girls are feminine. I discovered Eddie Izzard and showed up at the next meeting excitedly declaring myself a transvestite. I’m a straight girl who prefers to look like a man! I figured it out! And they all angrily lectured me for a solid hour about how women weren’t allowed to be transvestites “because it’s not socially unacceptable for women to wear jeans and t-shirts the way it is for men to wear dresses and makeup” and actually I was harming real transvestites by trying to claim that label for myself. I cried myself to sleep that night.

It was another 15 years before I finally figured out I was a man, and even now I struggle with constant imposter syndrome. My entire young life I was punished for being too masculine / not being feminine enough, lectured every time I asked to buy something from the boys’ department about how I would be alone forever and no one would ever love me if I didn’t learn to be more feminine, banned from being friends with boys because they were “clearly having a bad influence” on me, and the internalized guilt whenever I catch myself doing Guy Things is something I’ll probably struggle with for the rest of my life.

I’m overjoyed to hear it’s not like that anymore. The fight is still very much ongoing, but when I was a kid, “transgender” wasn’t a word anyone had ever heard. The closest thing that existed was a string of jokes in the media about female prostitutes turning out to “really be men” who were trying to trick male customers into doing something gay.

So these days there are just... trans kids at school. Existing and living their lives and being themselves - and having to fight for their rights against people who wish them harm! But at least knowing who they are. And that’s fucking miraculous to me. Not everything is getting worse.

Do high school kids these days just have trans classmates now. Like I keep seeing zoomer posts casually referring to it. Fucking wild if true.

[incorrectbatfam]

Does the Batfamily use Damian's activities to reject invitations they don't want to go to?

Example: "I really would love to go on your planet/dimension but I promised Damian I would help him bath the batcow this weekend"

Or "the little one has a school project and I'll help him, I gonna be busy that night"

And something?

Bruce, on the phone: Sorry, I'm afraid I can't make it to your gala. Damian suddenly came down with a fever. You know how it is with the bug going around.

Damian: Father, I feel fine—

Bruce, covering the phone: Shush, I'm doing us a favor.

———————

Barbara: Hey, Damian got a concussion on patrol and I'm babysitting. Raincheck?

Damian: But Gordon—

Barbara: *shoos him away*

———————

Kate: I'll be late, I'm taking Damian to a root canal.

Damian: My teeth are perfectly healthy—

Kate: *muffles him with her jacket*

———————

Dick: I have to cancel. My little brother needs me right now. He's going through some tough times and I'm the closest he has to a friend.

Damian: *video calling Jon, Colin, Maya, Maps, Kathy, Billy, and Suren with the pets on camera*

———————

Steph: Heya boss, my brother just broke his leg and I need to take him to the ER. I need someone to cover my shift.

Damian: *roundhouse kicks a training dummy*

Steph: Damian, keep it down!

———————

Jason: Why I'm not gonna train the new henches? Because my brother has fucking chicken pox! Yes, you heard me right, assface. I don't care who you get as long as the orientation is done.

Damian: *has a band-aid from his booster shot*

———————

Cass: Can't dance. Baby brother needs food. Parents not home. He hasn't eaten in a week.

Damian: *devouring his second vegan sandwich*

———————

Selina: Sorry girls, my stepson's cat just died. Maybe next time.

Damian: *playing with Alfred the cat*

———————

Duke: Damian, I need you to cover for me. I'm supposed to make up a quiz but it's the Riddler again.

Damian: What story are you going with?

Duke: How about... you're stuck in the rain and I need to pick you up?

Damian: It's sunny.

Duke: Please just go with it. I'll take you to the arcade after.

Damian: *pours water on himself*

Damian, completely monotone: Oh no, I've been abandoned by my parental figures.

———————

Tim, to his secretary: Tell the board I'm canceling all my meetings this week. No one's seen my brother since yesterday and the police are now involved.

Damian: *standing next to him*

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Damian: *playing video games in the living room*

Alfred: Master Damian, why aren't you at school?

Damian: According to everyone else, I am experiencing a fever, concussion, tooth damage, emotional instability, broken leg, chicken pox, chronic starvation, the loss of a pet, getting stuck in a downpour, and going missing. I don't think I'm able to attend classes in such a state.