Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: sick
  • Music: Deirdre Flint, 'Cheerleader.'

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.
Tags: medical fu, pandemic time
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seanan_mcguire

November 25 2008, 03:45:21 UTC 8 years ago

Ah, smallpox. Best horrible spotty plague ever conceived. Someday, it will return, because nothing is ever really extinct, and then? Then, we're all gonna die.

hms42

November 25 2008, 06:38:36 UTC 8 years ago

Were you in the dead dog @ OVFF when Bill Roper did this song?

http://www.filker.com/songs/Snowflakes.html

(A recording (not great quality) does exist.)

seanan_mcguire

November 25 2008, 18:59:54 UTC 8 years ago

I was! I clapped my hands and squealed a great deal.