First blog, ever
I understand that blogging is used mostly to complain about shit.
So last week I found out I've got TB.
Not the interesting kind of TB that gets you on the news and everyone wants to know what happened when they chopped out a part of your lung. The boring, stupid kind of TB which is hanging around in your system, waiting to strike when you get seriously sick with something else. Turns out, also the kind of TB that you have to take liver toxic meds for 9 months to kill, with possible side effects like hepatitis (which is parenthetically noted as "severe, sometimes fatal" on the med info sheet), lupus, seizures, sudden weakness, breast enlargement in males, bloody urine, confusion...
Wait, breast enlargement in males? How do you even respond to that possibility? Well, I could die, or possibly just grow huge knockers? Apparently, pharmaceuticals have a sense of humor.
I will say this, however - I happened to be tested for a work related function. Without this routine check we never would have caught it, and then we might have gotten into even deeper levels of shit. I know it's been on the news lately, and therefore your doctor is probably sick of hearing about it, but if you've never been tested consider it. After all, I have it, and you're reading my blog...
I understand that blogging is used mostly to complain about shit.
So last week I found out I've got TB.
Not the interesting kind of TB that gets you on the news and everyone wants to know what happened when they chopped out a part of your lung. The boring, stupid kind of TB which is hanging around in your system, waiting to strike when you get seriously sick with something else. Turns out, also the kind of TB that you have to take liver toxic meds for 9 months to kill, with possible side effects like hepatitis (which is parenthetically noted as "severe, sometimes fatal" on the med info sheet), lupus, seizures, sudden weakness, breast enlargement in males, bloody urine, confusion...
Wait, breast enlargement in males? How do you even respond to that possibility? Well, I could die, or possibly just grow huge knockers? Apparently, pharmaceuticals have a sense of humor.
I will say this, however - I happened to be tested for a work related function. Without this routine check we never would have caught it, and then we might have gotten into even deeper levels of shit. I know it's been on the news lately, and therefore your doctor is probably sick of hearing about it, but if you've never been tested consider it. After all, I have it, and you're reading my blog...
Yours is the second one (alphabetically) from someone I "know" a little, and whew... what a mixed feeling. One the one hand, "good news, we found it!" and on the other "bad news, you have it." Some people write reall extraordinary blogs. Do what thou wilt.
...or failing that what thou likest
I didn't really have a response to your last post in our exchange regarding kids that I'd feel comfortable sharing in the group, but now that I have come here, I want to respond.
M. has some of the best communication skills I've ever encountered. He can repress things as well as anyone, I suppose, but he has a strong history with me of communicating so that I really grok. I hadn't seen them in many years, and despite our deep friendship, we had only exchanged a couple of calls and emails when he told me about his daughter and her addiction. She evidently revealed it, and it took him completely by surprise. I have the impression that she assessed the situation fairly quickly and decided to seek help from him.
Now, anything can happen, right? The test of someone's character comes more from how (s)he deals with mistakes or tragedy.