Gangs of New York had quite a lot of blood in it.

[judecorp]

Stupid Left Tonsil is at it again. Here's hoping I can keep it down with the usual (ibuprofen and listerine gargle). The /last/ thing I want for the holidays is an abscessed tonsil. If it gets any worse, I'm pulling out the big guns (the superantibiotic stash - Levaquin).

For now, I'll stick with the vitamins and the good thoughts. I've made it for quite a while (since April?) without a significant tonsil incident. I am /so/ not breaking that trend for Christmas. Nope.

In other news, I think my Jennifer and I should make a tradition of going away for the holidays every other year. Last year in Disney was such an effing blast, and this year is looking anticlimatic without fun travel. I think we should start planning and saving now so we can go all out next year. She's thinking Puerto Rico. I could go for some of that. Really, I just want to lounge around in warm weather with my smoochie, making Happy Holiday phone calls and enjoying a little stress-free Christmas cheer. Sounds good.

Comments

[livinginoctober.livejournal.com]

Can you get your tonsils taken out? Or don't you have insurance??

They keep telling me they are going to take mine, but never have...I get strep so easily after I worked at Camp Pendalouan with all those kids...the little germ farms. :)

Merry Xmas to you and yours, by the way.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I was seeing an ENT surgeon in Columbus who really wanted to take them out after my last abcess in April. (Apparently once you get one abcess, you're way more likely to keep getting them.) Unfortunately I was getting ready to move to Boston and it really wasn't possible to swing a tonsillectomy at that time (the surgeon stated I'd need a 2-week recovery time with no travel, and at the time we were about to head out there for a week to look for apartments, and then I was wrapping up my job, etc.). My records should be on my way to my new primary care doctor, but she's encouraged me to try to hold onto my tonsils as long as I can, since getting them out as an adult is a real bitch. She may change her mind after receiving my records - I guess I'll find out sometime. I'd like to keep them if possible - I'm not terribly prone to strep (I've only had it once in my life so far), but have had lots of non-strep bacterial tonsillitis. And the abcesses. Yuck.

Considering the amount of germs I come into contact with on a daily basis, I'd say I'm doing pretty well. One of my kidlets had scarlet fever two weeks ago, and if this is the worst of it, I'm very lucky.

Happy holidays to you! (Did you get our card?)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Also, I am dumb. I always confuse livinginoctober with livinganthology. You didn't give me an address for a card. :)

[livinginoctober.livejournal.com]

I was confused for a second there, myself.

Thanks anyway...I'd be happy just to be on your list, but I do understand the daunting process of wading through hundreds of friends entries, so I'll understand if you can't add me back.

I'll just be your personal fan club. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Awwh, a fan club!

I do read your journal from time to time, you know. In fact, I was going to tell you that the "wolf's" name was The Gmork, but someone beat me to the punch. Drat!

I am so overwhelmed by this whole LiveJournal thing. I try to check journals first thing in the morning before I go to work (usually around 8:40am), and then it's usually the first thing I do when I get home (usually around 5:30pm). In that short span of time, I often have to go back 120+ entries. I'm at the point of needing to take people off again, which is so hard because I have almost only people I know in person. Aie!

Sorry. :(

[happy2beso.livejournal.com]

You can take me off if you don't like me anymore. :)

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

I found this the other day when I was looking for a poem that the twins wrote.

[carina-s.livejournal.com]

PANTS?

[calledmara.livejournal.com]

I get to go to Florida for Serbian Orthodox Christmas! Woo! Maybe I will learn more Serbian than "fuck your mother's pussy"

I got your card, thanks.

[folkyboy.livejournal.com]

ooh i feel for you, sweetums! oral pains are the worst!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

What about if I'm in love with you?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! That's awesome!

(And appropriate once again!)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

How does one say "Fuck your mother's pussy" in Serbian?

(You're welcome!)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Huh huh, you said 'oral.'

[happy2beso.livejournal.com]

Well, then it might be painful to read my journal when I talk about all the hot dates I go on. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

It's like daggers, Lara.