. . . for the light posting, by the way--I have some sort of hideous lung infection, and a 10:20 doctor's appointment stretched to nearly one. Insert rant on doctor's office scheduling tactics here. Insert second rant about hideous plague-flu that I acquired from a blogger who shall remain nameless.
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I'll bet that "nameless" blogger is Steve Sailer. He spreads infection everywhere he goes.
Good grief. There are infections running rampant among bloggers? Who knew? Thank God I'm so isolated or I'd be dead by now.
Is McMegan complaining about the guy who gave her mono?
Cute, but I had mono in 12th grade . . . it's just a hideous, hideous cold
My sympathies, Megan. Heal up soon!
Mein Fuhrer? Nein!
Not sure who it was, but I'm guessing that it wasn't Andrew Sullivan. Or Ambinder, poor guy...
It's Douthat
Megan got a shocking case of beard rash too.
twice.
You know, if kissing were the only way that one could catch cold, we'd all be a lot healthier . . .
In a shocking turn of events, it turned out the infection came from sharing a dessert with Amanda Marcotte!
Jesus people I feel like in five years we're going to see blogger fanfiction and in six years I'll hang myself
It is all that underage drinking you did- it compromised the development of your immune system.
Hope you feel better, Ms. McArdle.
Chinese Chicken Soup--and avoiding wathcing reality shows--generally works for me.
But given that your available and you graduated from U Chicago what is the difference between LIFO and FIFO?
Please help I am taking my CFA level 1 this December. If you I will refute every assertion Ben Robertson made about you.
Insert rant on doctor's office scheduling tactics here.
Insert rant on how bad the practices will be when doctors are (effectively or actually) Civil Servants. They'll hire all their office help from Pennsylvania DoT.
aaaaaah-tahisi-chooooo...
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the DC metro area,
"I don't care what your job is, you need to marry me now. Just cause you are writing for Atlantic aint no thing. And I don't want you blogging heads with women either. Damn, I see how that woman fawns over you. And now she caught your cold I gave YOU? Are you bopping her? I am your baby's momma. It's about respect!"
And further elsewhere in the DC Metro area,
"Well it's my daughter. I am waiting for her to give me grandkids but all she does it twitter and drink coffee and hang with metrosexuals and I don't even know what those are, but they don't seem to have penises. I really don't think she gets enough meat."
And still elsewhere in DC, in a lonely apartment, across from the tofu and the bicycle sits a sick woman thinking, "If only there was a kindly guy, maybe from Phoenix, with a blog nobody reads, and he doesn't even have to have a job, who would be the perfect man for me, and would feed me the chinese chicken soup from the comment above."
(What? What else could be the response to a "hideous lung infection" post with no backstory).
This is why the scheduling at Drs.' offices is the way it is. There's no cure for the common cold, but people waste the croaker's time by making an appointment to have their hands held, or to be prescribed an anti-biotic for a virus, thereby increasing the resistance of the bugs already in the system.
There really should be some sort of health care rationing, don't you think?
Nonetheless, I do hope you recover very soon. A common cold remedy is to drink plenty of fluids, take aspirin if you're feverish, & get plenty of bed rest. This should speed your recovery. In the future, I'd advise staying away from "bloggers," whatever they are. (The word itself just sounds dirty.)
It's gotta be the vegans that caused the lung infection.
I have asthma and a couple of other interesting autoimmune conditions, and therefore when something settles in my lungs, need to get checked for bronchitis. Especially when the cold lasts, as this one has, for over a week. Obviously I don't run to the doctor every time I get the sniffles.
Whenever, a doctor tries to pull that waiting room nonesense off on me, and when I am finally in his office and he walks in and wants to examine me. I tell him "No, that was at 10:20, now I am just here to collect my broken appointment fee."
I stay serious, give him an outrageous amount and we negotiate from there. I get lots of free medicine etc. :) Further, I do not have waitng room problems with that doctor ever again.
Meegan, take care of yourself. I find with this kind of stuff, the best thing to do is skip the American doctors and find a good Chinese herbalist. He will fix you up in no time.