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kungfuwaynewho) wrote2015-09-29 02:26 pm
I'm still here!
So, I got an email that my paid account was due to expire. I had two choices. Let it expire? But that seemed a tacit acknowledgment that I would never post again. So I had to renew, obviously. But once I paid for a blog that I hadn't used in a year (a year?!), I realized that I absolutely had to post again, today, immediately.
(I waited like six hours to make this post, obviously.)
Soooooooooo, it's been awhile! There are a multitude of reasons (three, maybe four) for why I quit posting for a year (A YEAR?!?), but I won't get into everything now. Mostly because it's boring and I doubt anyone cares. But I wanted to say hello! I'll be endeavoring to getting back into the swing of things and maybe making things and writing things again, and checking up on my flist, and other such online fandom thingies!
I feel like I should add something of substance to this post, however, so have literally the only thing I've done in Photoshop in the past year: a teeny-bop collage of silent film star Conrad Veidt! (My sister went through A Phase.)
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I've only recently started to feel like I'm back to 100% after my surgeries/almost dying this summer. (Okay, my mother says I almost died. I think the reality is a little less deadly, although I did meet the criteria for sepsis and got a room in the not-quite-ICU, not-quite-regular part of the hospital for several days.) Short version, I had a hysterectomy (yay!), then three weeks later my ovary abscessed and took my appendix along with it. I had to have another surgery to cut them all out. Then the antibiotics they were pumping me full of gave me acute kidney injury (the equivalent of Stage 4 kidney disease for a couple of months; they're fine now). I was in the hospital for ten days, all told.
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So jealous! Wow, that is very cool.
Holllllyyyyy shit, your summer! That sounds horrific. I'm glad that you came through okay, that's terrifying! My little sister ended up with C. diff after a run of antibiotics, which really put me off of them for anything outside of most dire need; your story doesn't help!
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It was cool! More basic than I expected, but he had a good take on the basics. He was more srs bzns than I expected, too, although of course when he was talking about spins, he was all, "Don't start with your left arm across your chest! You're cutting off your connection with your audience!" Heh.
Holllllyyyyy shit, your summer!
This was largely my reaction. Well, that and a lot of drooling and sleeping from three solid months of pain medicine. I got to the point where 10 mg of Percoset didn't really faze me, and I could totally drive on 5 mg.
I'm glad that you came through okay
Thanks!
My little sister ended up with C. diff after a run of antibiotics
Oh, yeah, I had that too, a couple weeks after I got out of the hospital. It was kind of anticlimactic. Anything that can be dealt with on an outpatient basis and doesn't nearly kill off an organ is not that big a deal to me now.
which really put me off of them for anything outside of most dire need; your story doesn't help!
Yup. Just because the C. diff was the least of my worries doesn't mean I want it again. I'll be giving future sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. plenty of time to heal on their own before going to the employee clinic that dispenses antibiotics if you so much as sneeze.
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Oh, yeah. For me it was as simple as the fact that the last few times I'd been on antibiotics, they didn't seem to do anything. I remember being younger and feeling a huge improvement from one day to the next once I started - but lately? I'm not sure there's any point, if it's just for something relatively simple like a sinus infection (or an ear infection for me, more likely).
The only thing that makes me pause is that my dad has a compromised immune system, so sometimes I think, maybe I should err on the side of caution for his sake? It's a tough call in that regard.