My family has severe reactions to vaccines, so bad in fact, that most of the next generation (my cousin Caleb, and any of my generation’s children) don’t get vaccines (yes, I know that’s not the best idea really, but the benifits in no way outway the risks), the main reason being, none of us want to see another child go through what my cousin Laura Rose went through.
So it’s rather obvious, we get a little leary when told we need a new vaccine, most of my genration or older get them because we’ve had most of these before, or know our reactions. The only diffrence is when a vaccine’s formula is changed…such as the yearly flu vaccine that’s changed every year.
I normally avoid getting the vaccine just because it aggrivates me, I always have symptoms after. This year however, I’ve been so sick ANYWAY that I decided to get both the flu and the pnemonia vaccine (especially since I have emphasima and have had pnemonia before as a child…which now makes me wonder if that vaccine will even work on me, I should research that).
Anyway, I got the shots two days ago, on on either arm to check which one would react, if any. Nothing seemed wrong for that day, and I pretty much forgot about it…
Until the next morning, when awoke with searing pain up the arm that had the flu shot. I looked at it and found the area bright red and burning warm. No big, typical side effects, just annoying. And then yesterday…the pnemonia arm reacted, making it very, very had to do anything since the pain is leeching my muscles of their strength.
And now, I’m starting to remember why I hate these shots and the lovely genetics that make us react more to them then others. Makes me even more leery of my tetnis shot that’s due (how does one get a tetnis shot anyway? I’ve always got them when rushed to the ER for doing something stupid like stepping on a live cable wire).
On a related medical note, my doctor finally seemed to listen to me instead of just assuming I’m making shit up. I have to get a catscan later this week for the pain in my upper abdomin. He’s thinking it might be bowel related, which apparently can be the upper stomach area (just under my left breast/rib cage).
Though, I’m getting a bit pissed at doctors who examine the area. I know there are ribs in the same area, the pain is JUST below the ribs (like half an inch below), and the swelling spreads ABOVE the ribs, no, I don’t know why, if I did, I would know what was wrong. And no shit, it hurts when you examne the area, YOU’RE PRESSING ON MY DAMN RIB, it hurts, when you press on a bone. Yes it hurts on the other side, IT’S STILL MY DAMN RIB. Arg!
Hopefully the catscan will reveal something.
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For those that don’t know about Laura, she was born…hmm, almost 16 years ago? Maybe more, I can’t really remember how old I was when she joined us. She’s Uncle Michael’s oldest child (cousin Caleb’s older sister).
When she was born, she had cleft lip, so they did surgery on it, and around the same time, they gave her her childhood vaccines. She ended up having a reaction to the vaccines, probably due to an allergic reaction, which cause seizures. The seizures, combined with reactions to her surgery, left her brain damaged, leaving her trapped in the mentality of a child only a couple monthes old (I’m not sure if she’s grown any more, we don’t really discuss it as it’s a hard subject for my uncle…my aunt lost it completely).
After Caleb was born, and tested for allergies, we discovered that his allergies were so severe, if he had gotten his vaccine’s before being tested, he probably would have ended up just like his sister. We’ve also discovered that over half of my generation has late developing life threatening allergies (allergies that developed after puberty), which is rather to scary to think about, considering how many things we could have done without thinking and almost killed ourselves).
Yet another reason I don’t really want to have a genetic child, as it’s almost like playing russion roulette with weither they’ll get physical disablities, mental or both.
please to stop comparing DN Angel and Magic Kaito, Saguru is not a murderous psycopath and Kaito does not fly on raven wings given to him by a demon rabbit…
Yes, no matter how pretty the image of Saguru with Krad’s long hair and coat, knock it off. If you don’t, I will be forced to read more With/Satoshi porn!
Also, spend more time figuring out how hot it is in Cairo in March and more about Genesis Larceny.
So mum and I are poor…this is not news. To supplument the 108$ I get in foodstamps, we run by the local food bank once a month. The problem with this is, more often then not, we have to throw out the food we get from them either the day of, or within a few (like three) days, because the food is molded (mostly the bread products and sometimes the dairy, canned food is not molded, but one can not live by green beans alone).
So after about a year of this (lazy, the name is Saity) and many times of discussing this matter with the food bank and other patrons, I write my usual letter to the editor.
…only this time it’s rejected as a ‘personal issue’.
Er…what?
So, I write the Opinion Editor back, a long letter indicating we’ve discussed this with both the local branch of the county food bank (where we get our food) and discovered it’s actually not just us, by discussin it with other patrons, and I fail to see how this is a ‘personal’ problem, if more then one family (especially those with children) are suffering the same fate of throwing out half the food they get, due to spoilage. I also inluded a bit about how moldy food and other spoilage is still dangerous in this country, especially for children, the elderly and low-income families who often don’t get the medical attention they may need.
…suddenly my letter is being sent to the City Editor and the Editor-in-Chief.
…what? How did…umm, I didn’t want to cause a huge drama…just give a heads up for people to watch what they buy for the food bank, not…this.
Worst possible outcome, the Riddle branch of the food bank is shut down, which would stress out the rest of the system as everyone (about 100 families) would have to go to other food banks, or possibly not get food at all to supliment their income.
I feel torn between people needing to know this (so they can check their food and not ingest harmful bacteria) and feeling like I ruined a hell of a lot for the families of the town.
Since I can’t find a better place…Random Kingdom Hearts musings (that I’ve probably mused on before!)
Dear Square/Disney-
plz to be telling us if it’s emotional hearts or physical hearts that Nobodies do not possess in KH III, as you are not making sense and it’s very very confusing (though, most evidence points to emotional hearts, it would be nice if you settle the argument…)
WTF is an ‘un-birth’?! I know we’ll know soon, but shit…that is A. a REALLY stupid idea if you’re actually connecting them to the Heartless/Nobody species, B. A really stupid (and slightly gross name…I’m now imagining evil placenta…), C. Making of the no sense, and D…a really stupid name.
…you just pulled the 14th member our of your asses didn’t you?
Don’t put another live action movie in the game, k? PoTC rules and all, but it’s very jarring animation and kinda looked *shifty look* stupid *hides*.
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And more random things from KH that aren’t in letter format -
If Riku didn’t recieve his keyblade until late KH II as many suggest, why does he have one in KH I? Soul Eater exists people! It’s handed to him by Maleficent! Okay, well not ‘handed’ to him, but y’know, made avaible. We have proof all the way from early KH I that not all Keyblade masters are ‘good’, King Triton tells Sora that the Keyblades can cause great destruction, Birth by Sleep’s promo’s demonstrate that evil/bad/corrupt weilder’s exist, the brunette (I want to say Ven, but I have a feeling his name is actually Terra) is not good and light (judging by what we know of previews, I could be so very wrong). Not to mention, THERE’S A KEYBLADE NAMED AFTER DARKNESS (King Mikey’s).
And expanding on that, if Sould Eater is the dark keyblade Riku has while possessed by Xenhort’s Heartless, where does it go when Xenhort’s Heartless takes full control and Sora frees Kairi? Does it go back into his soul, even though Riku’s pretty much, er…spirit boy? And if so, why does it do a mystical transformation into Way to the Dawn’s look-alike, even though it’s not Way to the Dawn? I mean, Soul Eater being the keyblade Sora stabs himself with makes sense (un-locking hearts and all that), but it shouldn’t reflect Way to the Dawn’s shape and symbolisom, it should still be alll dark and dramatic (then again, CoM wouldn’t have been as pretty without the wing shape in the ‘darker’ aspects of Riku’s side). (Yes, I’ve ranted on that before)
If King Mickey has the keyblade of Darkness, Sora has Light, Riku has Dawn…does that make Kairi’s Twilight? I mean, granted the symbolism would be cool, with two of the lightest charaters having the darkest keyblades…but then what would the others be? Four o’clock? A Freckle past a hair at noon? There are/were thousands…they can’t all represent something, and yet the four do.
And speaking of Kairi, does she actually have a Keyblade? It’s rather odd for Riku to just…hand it to her. Everyone else got a shiny ‘awakening’ moment (though Riku’s apparently happened off screen. Could it be, that unlike normal people, Princesses of Heart can weild the Keyblade, even without being ‘masters’, and if so, could that be a clue to the creation of the Keyblade’s themselves? Knight’s chosen by the Princesses (not the current ones, but past Princesses) to protect their world’s when they split from each other?
And WERE there previous Princesses of Heart? Are there others, who died and whose titles were passed on to the next purest heart? If not, what happened before these seven? Were the worlds connected then? Was there peace? And if there were, who were they?
Why do people keep thinking Ariel is a PoH? (Redundent, but I ask).
Now that the world’s know there are other’s out there, why can’t they develop the technology to travel in gummy space? Why does no one bother to follow Sora’s example and explore what’s beyond their ‘borders’? I know the Radient Garden group has, but what about say…Jack Sparrow or Ariel? Why are they so content in their little bubbles, that they don’t wonder what’s between the stars, where their friend goes?
(I had more, but this will do for now…so many questions…yet for some reason, most of the story makes perfect sense to me…I wonder why everyone says it’s confusing…)
First of all, I will confess that my favorite ad campagn at the moment is the “I’m a Mac” campaign.
Second of all, I will confess to being a Windows user for about 15 years now (and not touching a mac since Jr. High).
That said…miss the point much, Microsoft? It’s not about your users (of which you have more then quite a few), it’s not about seeing your products for a few hours or more in a controlled enviroment (of course it works dumbass, you set it up that way).
It’s about your products NOT WORKING in a home/work/ect environment! It’s about users (*waves*) being so pissed off at the bugs/errors/frustration that we jump ship to any number of other products out there that *gasp* work.
But, just like your products, your ads aren’t working either. Cute and amusing (sorry, at times they are!), they’re not focusing on the POINT, but sugar coating it with a nice wrapper and wondering off on a tagent that means nothing to the actual issue…kind of like your help files and knowledge base really…
Face facts, your products DON’T DO WHAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO. And any amount of shiny wrapping and cute catch phrases isn’t going to suddenly make them do so. And yes, every program has problems and have since computers were first invented, but when product c (or b or d or zob) works better then yours…we’re going to use it!
You’re Microsoft, you’re either viwed as a devil or as god (or as that great uncle Earl who you kinda like, but only at family reunions when he’s drunk and dancing on the picnic table), no amount of cute little ads or misdirection will change that.
But…maybe actually trying to do something? That just might.
(Yes, random and worthless, but I was bored and saw that comercial ONE too many times. Also, this is like the fifth post I’ve tagged with ‘rant’…I need a hobby.)
had one of the world’s shittiest nights. Not only have I been up an un-godly amount of time and am STILL sick…
But I spent the night caring for a dying kitten from about 7pm until she finally passed at 7am. Twelve hours of trying to make her at least comfortable, while hoping she would survive…And she didn’t even get to die peacefully, damnit! She seized at the last moment and ended up thrashing around…that’s not exactly the last image I want of her!
On top of that, mum finally agreed to surrender Kira (the puppy neither of us can control or train) to the animal shelter, so I spent half an hour trying to load a 50lb dog into our new car, while trying not to think that that was the last time I was going to see her (and I don’t even like the dog, damnit!).
I’m just…very drained and numb right now. I can’t even think or feel, let alone grieve for either animal.
I’m trying not to have a “Why me?” pity party in my head, which means trying to distract myself…which ISN’T WORKING! And I have a full disk of photos to edit…half of which contain the now late Mouse.
….can this day be over yet?
R.I.P. DoorMouse, daughter of Seth:
and goodbye, Kerradine:
it’s a really BAD idea for me to take Seroquel, Ambien, Zoloft, Oxycodone an Lomitil at the sametime.
Apparently last night I was talking gibberish, stumbling all over, refusing to lay down…and essencially doing things I don’t remember this morning. Thank god I didn’t end up majorly oding and back in the hospital.
Mum’s keeping an eye on my med, as we both suspect I forgot I took a dose and took more.
As this post contains information of a medical and personal nature, I’m cutting it early.
