[Gossamer's Scrapbook] The Ethereal Canyon I

[Kadrath Onktaka]

As promised:

[Gossamer]

. I Couldn't Resist. . .

[Tessa Poe]

I've never made an official estimate but I do worry about how accurate my S.P.A.G. is when posting, whether it's OoC or IC. It's a shame that I seem to be unable to see my own typos.

Anyway, glad you're back Jen-Jen, hopefully the rest helped a bit (even if the WC's making it harder to actually get some rest) and here's to a quickish recovery.

On a side note it's odd that something like the WC is having a resurgence over there, it's one of those diseases that I always associate with Victorian times you know?

[Gossamer]

. Too Much To Say Just be who you are. Don't force it. Don't fake it. Just let your light shine. That's what I'm holding tightly in my head right now. There are so many words that need to be written and that want to spill out like a waterfall. But I have to let them out one sentence at a time or else the deluge will swept me away if its not controlled. But I know enough not to let it rule me. I own it instead. You should too. You'll shine like the stars instead of fade away. .

[Taln]

I <3 you. Just keep on being on you.

[Gossamer]

. Ongoing Health Issues I know it probably seems like I'm a stark raving nasty creature these days because I have zero patience and I'm pretty tired all the time. I thought I'd give you guys an update on my doctors visit yesterday namely because I'd really like people to stop asking me how I feel. I know your being nice and polite, but the truth is I don't feel well - at all - and haven't for a month and its not getting any better. I went into the docs and dragged my hubby with me. I told her everything from the constant vomiting due to coughing to the endless bruised ribs, the exhaustion, lack of sleep, passing out, even yes coughing until you wet your pants... all these things are common symptoms of pertussis. So she gave me another thorough exam and checked my oxygen which was unbelievably low. She wasn't going to let me leave until the levels came up to where she was comfortable letting me walk out of her office. So she hooked me up to this breathing treatment that looks an awful lot like a pot pipe filled with medicinal mist. I smoked it for about an hour and then they checked my 02 levels again and it was finally up to 97%. The medicine left me shaking like someone with palsy though, so I could barely stagger around. The nurses were laughing at me and Matt was being patient, but things were working a bit better in my chest when I was done. Luckily my doctor has an 18 year old daughter with pertussis too (with exactly the same situation and hellishly sick) so she's been experimenting on her with a whole bunch of different treatments until she has something that's working a bit better. She said the first round of antibiotics failed.. which isn't uncommon... but she said frankly she'd never had a zymectrin failure with pertussis but I obviously was one. And I'd obviously taken the antibiotics as I'll talk about later. So she started writing scripts and it was insane. I have a more powerful inhaler. I have pretnazone which is a steroid for my lungs. I have more antibiotics than you can shake a stick at. I have thrush medication because the first round of antibiotics left me with a raging mouth infection that I thought was just from coughing and barfing and the inhaler yuck taste. I have prylosect for the trashed esophagus that's filled with acid lesions because of the barfing. I have anti barfing stuff. I have stuff so I can sleep. I have stuff so I don't cough.. the notorious perels. And after all this (I'm sure I'm missing some) I can expect at least two more weeks of this. And btw I'm still coughing like a fool, still throwing up (this morning it was last nights spaghetti!), and still feeling like someone ran me over with a truck. I'm tired. I'm cranky. I am getting next to nothing done PC wise on Mizahar. I'm keeping up with the HD but that's about all I'm capable of right now. Development is on hold. Quests are on hold. Everything is on hold. Please understand. I'm not a whiner by nature, but people are getting hospitalized for this and I'm probably one of those that should have taken the month off work to camp out on the couch. And now I'm off to get a DOT physical with an insane amount of narcotic drugs that are going to cause me to fail my drug test during it... which is a given. I have no idea if they will pass me or not, but I'm going to do my best. I need my physical for my job but this is so laughably pathetic that its not even funny. But whatever you do, don't ask me how I am. I'm sick. I'm going to be sick. No I won't be better anytime soon. I have two more weeks or more of exactly these same symptoms or worse. Yes I'll probably yell at people and boot folks out of chat, but only those truly deserving because unlike the rest of my body, my brain is still functioning just fine. .

[Verilian]

Jen, I think you need to submit an HD ticket for yourself to get the Healing gnosis, that way you can hurry up and get better. Just don't take forever approving it though.

[Shepherd]

Make it good though, perhaps hire me to write it?

Anyways,

Super moon!

[Taln]

All purpose present for you:


And I don't think it's WC. You said you had cats so it must be:

[Legion]

I made you this sign. The James Bryce quotation has absolutely no correlation to the poorly shopped picture I shamelessly absconded with from the interwebs. However, I heard you like home made signs, that piece of so called wall art was made out of god damned beer cans and the font is called "Poilet Taper" and that is just freaking hilarious. I'll just leave this here.