The Rant Rave thread

scarlett wrote: Rant: no time to go to doctor for cancerous knee
Rave: friend is bringing me strong ass antibiotics left over from a trip to Africa!!!!!!!
Rave: friend is bringing european antibiotic cream!!!!!!
Rave: between the two of them I think I can still drink!!! My theory is that I fell on Thursday, had wine thursday night, drank my ass of Friday, then nothing until last night. It was the alcohol killing the infection but since I didn't drink for a couple days - not even bailey's in my coffee - it came back. Vodka is a miracle cure. That and Bourbon.

That's a bad idea. Not all antibiotics are good for skin infections, and there's a pretty high incidence of community-acquired MRSA in our area, so the selection of antibiotics is definitely non-trivial. There's no such thing as "strong" and "weak" antibiotics. There's only right and wrong antibiotics for a specific type of infection. Something that's "strong" for malaria or traveler's diarrhea might do nothing for a wound infection, for example. You should go to a doctor before that gets worse.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=scarlett]Rant: no time to go to doctor for cancerous knee
Rave: friend is bringing me strong ass antibiotics left over from a trip to Africa!!!!!!!
Rave: friend is bringing european antibiotic cream!!!!!!
Rave: between the two of them I think I can still drink!!! My theory is that I fell on Thursday, had wine thursday night, drank my ass of Friday, then nothing until last night. It was the alcohol killing the infection but since I didn't drink for a couple days - not even bailey's in my coffee - it came back. Vodka is a miracle cure. That and Bourbon.

That's a bad idea. Not all antibiotics are good for skin infections, and there's a pretty high incidence of community-acquired MRSA in our area, so the selection of antibiotics is definitely non-trivial. There's no such thing as "strong" and "weak" antibiotics. There's only right and wrong antibiotics for a specific type of infection. Something that's "strong" for malaria or traveler's diarrhea might do nothing for a wound infection, for example. You should go to a doctor before that gets worse.

^^that times, like, four hundred.

Please , Scar , go see a doctor ASAP!!

My friend's mom had to have her toe amputated bcuz she waited so long to see a doc.Gangrene , it was.

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: Seriously, I am NOT hanging out with a peg-leg.

Just gimps

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: You at least look somewhat normal.

that's only because you always look at my tits

Duh. I have to have something to do. If I listened to you talk, I'd have to shoot myself. Oh. My. God. I'm a guy. :shock:

What?

Are you talking?

Rave: Kermit goatse!

RAVE: Poppy seed bagel with scallion cream cheese.

Flexichick wrote: rant: stepping in something that my cat barfed up. ick

NAH-STAY!!!
And all the guff you gave me for a little innocent baby poop. :puker:

Carmen wrote: rave: mougs googling skillz

rant: my googling skillz, apparently

RAVE: I'm home and I totally kicked ASS at my client the past two days (thanks to working all day sunday)
rant: my boss nitpicked my timesheet even though I had over 45 hours total last week because I only worked 5.5 hours on Tuesday. Wtf

please tell me you included all of your travel time back and forth, plus gas and tolls.

Flexichick wrote: [
please tell me you included all of your travel time back and forth, plus gas and tolls.

Didn't you mean to say this to Beave about Spain? Tee hee!!!!

Rave: all right all you negative Nellies telling me to go to the doctor when I can't. I had a nurse at work look at it, and yes it's infected. I had the nurse practitioner review the antibiotics that were given to me -- and they are to treat bacterial infections - and she agreed it was a match. Soooooooooo I am on my way to a healthy knee!!!!!! Now can I have my whiskey Meredith?

scarlett wrote: [quote=Flexichick][
please tell me you included all of your travel time back and forth, plus gas and tolls.

Didn't you mean to say this to Beave about Spain? Tee hee!!!!

Rave: all right all you negative Nellies telling me to go to the doctor when I can't. I had a nurse at work look at it, and yes it's infected. I had the nurse practitioner review the antibiotics that were given to me -- and they are to treat bacterial infections - and she agreed it was a match. Soooooooooo I am on my way to a healthy knee!!!!!! Now can I have my whiskey Meredith?
What are the antibiotics?

You seriously do not want to mess around with an infection. One time I broke a Chango Macho candle in my bathroom and stepped on a piece of glass. The guy I was seeing tried getting the glass out with tweezers and no luck. Finally we got it out with a needle.

Four days later, I step out of bed leading with that foot and practically see stars. Turns out I had a staph infection. It started where the glass went in and was a red line marching straight up my leg.

I got myself right to the doctor who said it's serious shit...if I had waited one more day, I would have been in the hospital. They put me on antibiotics and drew a line on my skin where the red mark stopped. They said in about 12 hours if the line didn't stop moving and start going backwards or fading, I had to go to the hospital ASAP. If that shit gets to your heart, it will kill you (or so I was told....Carni - can I be a doctor now?????).