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tikiwanderer: http://www.nt.gov.au/health/news/2007/ne
We talked about this some. It's interesting how the news discussion is different.
US: The vaccine is against the most common strains HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer in women. Maybe some girls should get it?
Fundie supplement: The vaccine makes it easier to disobey God by having sex that's not with your first and only wedded virgin spouse (otherwise why would you need an anti-STD vaccine?) and therefore should be banned.
Australia: The vaccine is against cervical cancer. Which happens to come from HPV, whatever, anyway, it's common. Everyone go get it! Cure for cancer!
Note the emphasis difference even in the non-fundie versions.
- Location:desk
- Music:Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
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date time - ketone mg/dl or blood sugar mg/dl - notes
3/11/07 19:13 - k 5 - feeling about normal, somewhat hot / tired
3/18/07 21:15 - bG 32 - after hike, hungry; couldn't get enough blood on the strip (but no 'not enough blood' error). Fingerpricks clot up very quickly, don't even get a full drop out of 'em. (Grr well functioning immune system?)
3/30/07 18:34 - bG 66 - last ate a few hours ago, cereal. feeling hot, hungry, dizzy, very mild nausea, hot/cold flushing,no twitch. full coloration on strip, rh pinky draw. drinking steadily but still thirsty. 19:01 mild right bicep twitch
3/31/07 11:23 - bG 87 - morning pre breakfast
4/5/07 11:41 - bG 87 - morning pre breakfast
4/9/07 11:50 - bG 90 - morning pre breakfast
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date time - ketone mg/dl or blood sugar mg/dl - notes
3/11/07 19:13 - k 5 - feeling about normal, somewhat hot / tired
3/18/07 21:15 - bG 32 - after hike, hungry; couldn't get enough blood on the strip (but no 'not enough blood' error). Fingerpricks clot up very quickly, don't even get a full drop out of 'em. (Grr well functioning immune system?)
3/30/07 18:34 - bG 66 - last ate a few hours ago, cereal. feeling hot, hungry, dizzy, very mild nausea, hot/cold flushing,
3/31/07 11:23 - bG 87 - morning pre breakfast
4/5/07 11:41 - bG 87 - morning pre breakfast
4/9/07 11:50 - bG 90 - morning pre breakfast
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- Location:desk
I woke up this morning with my right eye hurting a lot. I took out my contact and if anything it started hurting more.
Put in some Cipro, no relief. Eye still impossible to open the usual way, hurting, and light-sensitive. So I called a taxi and went to see the eye doc.
The doc - who was very nice - says I have two large circular / ovoid abrasions on my cornea, probably as of this morning or I'd have been bitching about the pain before. She put a bunch of stuff in my eye and sent me home with a bottle of antibiotic (1 drop/hr), topical analgesic (1 / 4-6 hr), and a prescription for an antibiotic salve to use before I go to sleep. And said I should use the 600mg-dose ibuprofen that I have from when I needed my wisdom teeth removed.
And come back to get checked on tomorrow. Supposedly it should heal pretty quickly so long as it doesn't get infected, but if it does get infected then Bad Things May Happen. So in the meantime I'm to convalesce and try not to use my eye much.
Fortunately my left eye is completely OK - at least I can partially see things. My right eye currently still hurts - though less so than before - and feels very gummy, lightsensitive, hard to open, and gritty. Ick.
My luck recently has rather sucked. :(
I'm to have a potential roommate over in a few hours; I'll clean up before then. Hopefully that turns out well; a new roomie would be a Good Thing.
Edit 1/06: Roommate was a no-show and dropped out once I called. :( Again...
Yesterday sucked. Took bus to doc, got more drops, whee pain. Somewhat less than Thursday though.
Today is not too bad. Eye proper doesn't hurt all that much, though it's still nearly unusable and very light-sensitive. Lower lid is now swollen and prickly; hopefully it's not infected as that would be a very bad thing. But this should indicate that eye proper is indeed healing. Hopefully better by Monday when I see the doc again.
Put in some Cipro, no relief. Eye still impossible to open the usual way, hurting, and light-sensitive. So I called a taxi and went to see the eye doc.
The doc - who was very nice - says I have two large circular / ovoid abrasions on my cornea, probably as of this morning or I'd have been bitching about the pain before. She put a bunch of stuff in my eye and sent me home with a bottle of antibiotic (1 drop/hr), topical analgesic (1 / 4-6 hr), and a prescription for an antibiotic salve to use before I go to sleep. And said I should use the 600mg-dose ibuprofen that I have from when I needed my wisdom teeth removed.
And come back to get checked on tomorrow. Supposedly it should heal pretty quickly so long as it doesn't get infected, but if it does get infected then Bad Things May Happen. So in the meantime I'm to convalesce and try not to use my eye much.
Fortunately my left eye is completely OK - at least I can partially see things. My right eye currently still hurts - though less so than before - and feels very gummy, lightsensitive, hard to open, and gritty. Ick.
My luck recently has rather sucked. :(
I'm to have a potential roommate over in a few hours; I'll clean up before then. Hopefully that turns out well; a new roomie would be a Good Thing.
Edit 1/06: Roommate was a no-show and dropped out once I called. :( Again...
Yesterday sucked. Took bus to doc, got more drops, whee pain. Somewhat less than Thursday though.
Today is not too bad. Eye proper doesn't hurt all that much, though it's still nearly unusable and very light-sensitive. Lower lid is now swollen and prickly; hopefully it's not infected as that would be a very bad thing. But this should indicate that eye proper is indeed healing. Hopefully better by Monday when I see the doc again.
- Mood:
sick
http://gardasil.com
Mostly important for (and marketed at) women, because HPV -> cervical cancer. Only works against 4 types of HPV but still sounds like a good thing. ~$250.
Edit: $250... per for 3 doses. And probably not under insurance. :-/ (Thanks,ambyr, for the correction.)
Mostly important for (and marketed at) women, because HPV -> cervical cancer. Only works against 4 types of HPV but still sounds like a good thing. ~$250.
Edit: $250... per for 3 doses. And probably not under insurance. :-/ (Thanks,
ambyr, for the correction.)One thing I forgot to mention: a few days ago my ear started hurting. I thought it was just a scratch on the inside of the pinna (the visible part). It got worse though. On Saturday it started to hurt pretty badly, so I gave it a day. It didn't go away.
I walked myself into the ER at a local hospital; it was still hurting, more internally, and I couldn't hear out of it. I could feel my pulse from it pretty easily.
Eventually, an internist came by; he looked at my ear, and said he couldn't see my eardrum. Thought it might have been ruptured ("don't worry, they grow back"). He called another guy - an ENT specialist - who said, no, it was just that the canal was all swollen up. A third one (an hour later) agreed, and diagnosed it as otitis media & externa - i.e. bacterial inflammation of the ear, aka "swimmer's ear".
I got a prescription for Cipro HC drops ($120 out of pocket, but should be mostly [80%?] reimbursed once I get back and file a claim). Five hours after I first left, I was back home.
It kept hurting for several days. Today it's mostly better; still hurts a bit, and still hard to hear out of it, but definitely better. Should probably be fixed by the time I get back.
Yay antibiotics and insurance.
I walked myself into the ER at a local hospital; it was still hurting, more internally, and I couldn't hear out of it. I could feel my pulse from it pretty easily.
Eventually, an internist came by; he looked at my ear, and said he couldn't see my eardrum. Thought it might have been ruptured ("don't worry, they grow back"). He called another guy - an ENT specialist - who said, no, it was just that the canal was all swollen up. A third one (an hour later) agreed, and diagnosed it as otitis media & externa - i.e. bacterial inflammation of the ear, aka "swimmer's ear".
I got a prescription for Cipro HC drops ($120 out of pocket, but should be mostly [80%?] reimbursed once I get back and file a claim). Five hours after I first left, I was back home.
It kept hurting for several days. Today it's mostly better; still hurts a bit, and still hard to hear out of it, but definitely better. Should probably be fixed by the time I get back.
Yay antibiotics and insurance.
