I'm just saying.

[rivka]

Boy, am I feeling cranky. Also whiny. It's a good thing no one's home to have to put up with me.

See, Spider Robinson, this is why I don't think that telepathy would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. It's not that I have a dark, secret core of shame in my inmost soul, a deep painful conviction that I could never be loved if people knew what I was really like. It's that I know perfectly well that no one - no matter how loving, accepting, and evolved - would want to hear "Awwwwww, my stomach hurts" Every. Freaking. Five. Minutes. Until the antibiotic kicks in sometime tomorrow. And reasonably so.

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Have you ever tried ... um. Those little black pills that turn your pee orange and give you immediate relief? I always make them prescribe me those.

-J

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Do what?

[elusis.livejournal.com]

They sell them over the counter now, as Uristat. The drug numbs your bladder so you can stand waiting until the antibiotics kick in without having to pee every 5 minutes. They're miraculous.

[mamatiger.livejournal.com]

What she said. Miracle cure, fer sure. But Uristat didn't turn my pee bright orange. Oh no, it turned my pee bright NEON orange. Quite the experience.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Scotch might not fix it, but then you might not care as much... ;-)

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Alcohol is contra-indicated for this particular illness, alas. Because yummmmmmmmm, scotch.

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Spider did always say shared pain was lessened... *g*

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

That seems categorically mistaken, in the case of telepathy.

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

*brib*

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

See, I think live journal might be even better than telepathy, for things like that. I can complain about my guts in real time without waking up people who are asleep to complain about something they can't help.

But mine are fine today. I hope your antibiotic kicks in quickly.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

But mine are fine today. I hope your antibiotic kicks in quickly.

It seems to be helping much more today, thanks. I stayed home from church, but I'm feeling much less like spending the whole day on the couch.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

From an unwritten Spider Robinson novel:

Protagonist: You've got no idea how horrible I'm feeling.
Telepathic soon-to-be sidekick: Yes I do; I'm a telepath.
P: You are? Great! I'm feeling shitty; let's overthrow the government.
TS-T-BS: OK.

150 pages later:

P: Well, that was fun.
TS-T-BS: And we only killed demonstrably evil people. Go us! Let's get stoned and fuck.

The fuzz: We'd like a word with you.

100 more pages later:

The new fuzz: OK, we're convinced. Go and be president.

Happy ending, general rejoicing, tra la la, loud cheers.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

C>N|K!!!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

unwritten? you sure? (i swear i've read that one. two or three times, even.)

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Great, but shouldn't it be "let's do bad puns, get stoned, and fuck"?

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Yes. Bad puns, smoking dope, and fucking -- the way all happy endings run in the Robinson Universe.

*grrrr*

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

And a fine sort of ending that is. :)

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Sympathies on your UTI, and I hope the drugs work soon.

I totally agree about telepathy, too. Knowing in intimate detail about my cubiclemate's case of the trots would send me screaming into the night in short order.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Uristat is rather alarming because if you do not expect your pee to turn dark orange from the drug you can have a few hours of thinking that something is badly wrong before you get in touch with someone (usually a pharmacist) who makes the connection. Honestly though I would not bother with Uristat. When I asked for it over here (England) my doctor told me to take baking soda instead - about a teaspoon in a mug of water - as it is cheaper and does not require a prescription (or any of the attendant running around). It tastes quite disgusting and makes me burp a little but that is okay.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Uristat is rather alarming because if you do not expect your pee to turn dark orange from the drug you can have a few hours of thinking that something is badly wrong before you get in touch with someone (usually a pharmacist) who makes the connection.

Considering that the warning on my Bactrim encourages me to watch out for (among other things) dark urine as a symptom of dangerous side effects, I think I'll give Uristat a pass. I'm feeling a lot better today anyway.

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

good, good.

Uristat (or pyridium) makes a lot of work for me at three am.

Lots of primary care docs don't bother to warn their patients of this harmless side effect. So, when they wake up at zero-dark-thirty and go to the bathroom, the patient becomes...

perturbed.

No, rather, "panicky" seems more apt.

It's *real* nice to be able to offer reassurance. But frustrating, that a two minute chat could head that sorta thing OFF, and save the poor patient a trip in the middle of the night.

But pyridium's good stuff. It allowed me to make all my shifts, when I was a senior resident, and passing a kidney stone... for six weeks.... sigh.

I *always* offer it to my ED patients. (Tend to use other antibiotics such as macrobid, so as not to increase angst--"is that dark, or yellow, or orange? Is it orange enough?")

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Six. Weeks.

Yeow.

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

well, stones pass in intermittent, episodic manner, so I had periods of surcease...

but yeah, "yowwwww" indeed.

[dedoc.livejournal.com]

well, stones pass in intermittent, episodic manner, so I had periods of surcease...

but yeah, "yowwwww" indeed.