The Friday Five
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phoenixfalls(even though it's Saturday)
1. What was the most sick that you've ever been?
Torn on my answer here - my instinct is that "sick" refers to infectious diseases, rather than more generally "suffering from medical issues that may include infectious disease, non-infectious disease, injury, etc." If going by that definition, probably the bout of food poisoning I got in the Italian Alps when I was 20. Three days of only being conscious enough to run to the bathroom, and sometimes not making it there. In a hotel room, in a country where I didn't speak the language. Not fun! But my cousin (who I was travelling with, and who was much less affected thankfully) loaned me her Agatha Christie novels when I started being conscious again, getting me hooked.
2. What disease are you afraid of getting?
Covid, probably. I have a close friend whose lungs were ravaged by it - she's permanently on oxygen now, and has to be so careful to ration her energy. That kind of debilitation is what scares me most as a single adult without a strong local support system.
3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?
Not at all. Can't be at this point - I have several chronic illnesses, which together require: quarterly blood draws, biweekly self injections, and more pills than I can easily count.
4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?
Honestly, my reaction to some medical trauma has been to go to the doctor the INSTANT I suspect something is wrong. Because if there is something wrong I want to get ahead of it - I do NOT want another experience like I had about a decade ago, when i was collapsed in the emergency room in so much pain that I vomited, and when they finally admitted me even a fentanyl drip barely took the edge off. Logically, there is nothing I could have done to prevent that situation - I didn't have any symptoms of my massive ovarian cysts (22 cm and 18 cm, respectively!) until one of them went into torsion. But between the pain, the ER nurse threatening to throw me out because I was being disruptive, and the 5 days I was in agony waiting for a surgeon (this happened over a holiday weekend) I am terrified of my body ever betraying me like that again. So I listen very closely to any signals it wants to send me!
5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?
FUCK no. 20% of my life in misery, for an amount that wouldn't even cover my rent? Gonna have to add a few more zeroes to that number for me to even be tempted.
1. What was the most sick that you've ever been?
Torn on my answer here - my instinct is that "sick" refers to infectious diseases, rather than more generally "suffering from medical issues that may include infectious disease, non-infectious disease, injury, etc." If going by that definition, probably the bout of food poisoning I got in the Italian Alps when I was 20. Three days of only being conscious enough to run to the bathroom, and sometimes not making it there. In a hotel room, in a country where I didn't speak the language. Not fun! But my cousin (who I was travelling with, and who was much less affected thankfully) loaned me her Agatha Christie novels when I started being conscious again, getting me hooked.
2. What disease are you afraid of getting?
Covid, probably. I have a close friend whose lungs were ravaged by it - she's permanently on oxygen now, and has to be so careful to ration her energy. That kind of debilitation is what scares me most as a single adult without a strong local support system.
3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses?
Not at all. Can't be at this point - I have several chronic illnesses, which together require: quarterly blood draws, biweekly self injections, and more pills than I can easily count.
4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad?
Honestly, my reaction to some medical trauma has been to go to the doctor the INSTANT I suspect something is wrong. Because if there is something wrong I want to get ahead of it - I do NOT want another experience like I had about a decade ago, when i was collapsed in the emergency room in so much pain that I vomited, and when they finally admitted me even a fentanyl drip barely took the edge off. Logically, there is nothing I could have done to prevent that situation - I didn't have any symptoms of my massive ovarian cysts (22 cm and 18 cm, respectively!) until one of them went into torsion. But between the pain, the ER nurse threatening to throw me out because I was being disruptive, and the 5 days I was in agony waiting for a surgeon (this happened over a holiday weekend) I am terrified of my body ever betraying me like that again. So I listen very closely to any signals it wants to send me!
5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it?
FUCK no. 20% of my life in misery, for an amount that wouldn't even cover my rent? Gonna have to add a few more zeroes to that number for me to even be tempted.
