Epidemiology is fun for everybody!: seanan

Epidemiology is fun for everybody!

Starting yesterday morning, I began to present the exact same symptoms that I was presenting this time last week. That's right: reinfection has been achieved. Yippee! Only wait...no. Not yippee. Anti-yippee. This is the dark reflection of yippee, lurking in the tenebrous corners of the universe, waiting to destroy my enjoyment of everything.

I literally sat down with a pen and paper, made a list of everything I encountered during my probable infection period (assuming a two- to three-day incubation, which is roughly average for this sort of virus), and proceeded to check off the things that I encountered during the period where I didn't get sick. Like John Snow on his quest for the Broad Street pump, I was on a quest for a viral reservoir! Only he wasn't, y'know, dying of cholera while he was looking for the thing that caused all that cholera. I am not entirely happy with my needing to catch the virus to know I needed to find it.

The probable culprit? The toothbrush I keep in Kate and GP's bathroom for my Thursday night sleepovers. Kate has thrown it away, and we'll be testing the theory when I go to house-sit for them (starting tomorrow night). So I feel very much like a kick-ass epidemiologist, wiping out threats everywhere that she goes. Except for the part where, oh, yeah, I'm still sick. I had to go to work today, since it's already a short week, and literally nearly passed out at my desk several times. I feel like death warmed over. I look like death warmed over. The Four Horsemen all want my number. Pestilence called me 'a real hottie.'

If this is my last entry, blame the microbes.

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lovefromgirl

November 25 2008, 05:11:21 UTC 8 years ago

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Y'know, you're not exactly dissuading me from following Sky and Sunshine to super-tightly-controlled Grand Cayman in twenty years when they retire. :-) I loves me some historical plagues, but not to the extent of wanting to relive them.

The one place I consistently could not infect in that pandemic game was, after all, an island...

kyra_neko_rei

November 25 2008, 05:16:55 UTC 8 years ago

Madagascar kicked your ass too?

*sympathizes*

*doubletakes upon realizing precisely WHAT she's sympathizing over*

*shrugs it off and continues to sympathize*