I'm leaking (TMI)

[Ogre]

I’ve now missed four days of work. It started Sunday night when I thought I was getting a cold.

Wait. Backstory. You see, I am now a magnet for sickness. I work completely alone. I’ll sometimes go a month or more without ever having a lot of contact with anyone from the outside world. I come home, and I see my fiancee, and that’s about it. Otherwise, I’m an empty beachside condo for any vacationing bugs that happen to come along.

Right. So, Saturday, I went to a party with my fiancee. With people. Lots of disease-carrying, fully-socialized-and-therefore-mostly-immune-to-whatever-casual microbes-are-being-passed-around people.

Yeah. So, Sunday night, I thought I was getting a cold. By Monday morning, my throat hurt so bad I couldn’t swallow.

That cleared up in a day or so. Unfortunately, that’s when the pukery started. Oh, and the diarrhea.

I haven’t managed to climb out of bed before 1 PM in four days. I’ve had a spectacular lack of success in keeping anything down (slightly positive side note: I’ve lost 5 pounds! Blech. I’d rather be fat.)

So yes, my body has sprung a number of leaks, and I’m bailing as fast as my diseased little self can manage. I’ve been doped up on various OTC remedies until I could tell you the year and vintage of the particular bottle of Ny-Quil I’m swilling at the moment (pure exaggeration, of course, since I can’t taste or smell a damn thing.)

Goddamn flu. Why didn’t I get a shot this year again? Bah.

Enough. I’m off to the doctor. Not that he can do anything for me at this point. It’s just me and the microbe, man. Tug-of-war, baby.

Somebody kill me. Please.

[Ogre]

No sympathy for the big scary Ogre. This should have gone to MPSIMS, but I’m too damn fuzzy-headed to think straight, much less post.

Doc gave me drugs. I’m very, very high at the moment. Still coughing and oogy, but I don’t seem to care as much now.

[Kingspades]

Sorry you’re feeling bad, Ogre.

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@Ogre

I work completely alone. I’ll sometimes go a month or more without ever having a lot of contact with anyone from the outside world.

See, now this is the interesting part of this thread. What do you do?

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[Ogre]

Ecologist. I work waaaay out in the woods, out of contact with most people. I do species inventories, ecological monitoring (water, air, soil quality, etc.,) veg mapping, al kinds of stuff. I’m the only one doing the work, so I work alone. Only 3-4 other people at the place at all, and my office is in a separate building. Average day: go to work, either do work outside or computer work, depending on weather. Check mail at main office. Say ‘hi’ to one or two other folks, go away again. Come home, spend evening with fiancee.

And thanks. I appreciate the thought.

Pardon me if I’m whoring for attention. I may have mentioned that I’m under the weather at the mo’.

[Reepicheep]

Ogre, feel better! Stop being a sieve. I do sympathize with your microbe tug-of-war. I hope you win soon. I can sometimes keep down a small amount of rice cooked in broth, you might want to try that. Hope your fiancé is giving you TLC.

[Turek]

@Ogre

Ecologist. I work waaaay out in the woods, out of contact with most people. I do species inventories, ecological monitoring (water, air, soil quality, etc.,) veg mapping, al kinds of stuff. I’m the only one doing the work, so I work alone. Only 3-4 other people at the place at all, and my office is in a separate building. Average day: go to work, either do work outside or computer work, depending on weather. Check mail at main office. Say ‘hi’ to one or two other folks, go away again. Come home, spend evening with fiancee.

Not that I don’t want you to get better or anything, but if you die, can I have your job? It sounds like fun.

What? Ouch, stop hitting me.

[Queen_Tonya]

Leaking sucks. :mad:

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@Ogre

No sympathy for the big scary Ogre. This should have gone to MPSIMS, but I’m too damn fuzzy-headed to think straight, much less post.

Doc gave me drugs. I’m very, very high at the moment. Still coughing and oogy, but I don’t seem to care as much now.

I moved it for you. Hope you’ll feel better soon, leaking is NEVER a good sign.

Until you’re better, I expect you to post ONLY if you have a drink sitting nearby, so you’ll take a sip now and then. Lemon lime soda, or chicken broth, or something similar, that’s gentle on the tummy. That’s an order.

Lynn
For the Straight Dope

[Ogre]

Lynn, you’re such a sweetheart. Thanks.

[Celyn]

Sympathy for the oogy Ogre. One jsut t doesn’t think of ogres being subject to the same kind of shit as the rest of us, somehow.

Blech! That leaking from both ends thing is a REAL nasty thing .

[Sampiro]

Sorry to hear of your empty feeling. Your problem with evacuation makes me think of all the people who fled Hitler, which would make your body Nazi Germany I suppose. (Actually it doesn’t make me think of that at all, but it’s the only way of violating Godwin’s Law that would seem at all applicable to this thread.)

If you need me to come pull a feeding tube or anything drop me a line.

[Little_Bird]

Oh yeah? Well I had a migrane for* four days!* I only got out of bed to go to the doctor! And I just moved into my house and didn’t have time to put up curtains! And, why I can not fathom, my TMITMITMITMITMI vagina and butthole really hurt!

But yeah, Ogre, the flu sucks.

[congodwarf]

I hope you’re feeling better by now. And I want your job too. How much schooling do you need for that?