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Apr. 3rd, 2015 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI managed to get through all my morning routines, get halfway through the first hour before the stress headache hit. Go me? Even more fun, I managed to convince myself that I wouldn't need the candy the boy got me for comfort snacking at all today, and I got to work and the first thing I was craving was those fucking Mike and Ike's. So well done there.
Mostly I just want to go home where I can curl up and be miserable in my pajamas and no one will care.
As if the potential mini-stroke (all scans negative, they're still not sure what happened) wasn't enough, the boy came home this morning and said someone at his care center had had tuberculosis for three months and no one had told anyone. Whether in this case "had" means "had untreated" or means "had and was being treated for" I don't know, because the boy's asleep and I don't know if he knows, and yet the difference between one and the other is a world of contagion. Anyway, now he has to go get tested but since it's a holiday weekend
(I'm overhearing phone conversations that don't sound like things I want to hear this is not helping.)
Since it's a holiday weekend none of our doctors are in and we can't get tested at least until Monday. Mostly I want to go drag my brother and his informally fiancee over to the center and go "Excuse me, do you know what a massive breach of ethics and invitation to liability you've committed?"
Fucking tuberculosis. Do you know what you have to do to get rid of that shit? At best you have to take ridiculously powerful potentially debilitating drugs for a year. Okay, six months to a year. Side effects include nausea, fever, turning yellow... I just. Why the fuck would you not tell your staff.
Trying to keep busy today. It's semi-working. Things I want to do today include: Physics, get another 3k written on the Nano novel, maybe get some stuff written on the dime novel. Get things converted when I get home. Hindi, which I've also been neglecting. Chemistry notebook starting, because why not. Possibly Latin, or possibly just making an index of all the things I've allegedly learned in Latin so far. Eat dinner. Don't just eat candy for the rest of today. Stretch. Don't fall over. Find a good book and curl up with it. Relax. Stop freaking out.
(Yes, I realize that's not very likely to happen, but I can try.)
Mostly I just want to go home where I can curl up and be miserable in my pajamas and no one will care.
As if the potential mini-stroke (all scans negative, they're still not sure what happened) wasn't enough, the boy came home this morning and said someone at his care center had had tuberculosis for three months and no one had told anyone. Whether in this case "had" means "had untreated" or means "had and was being treated for" I don't know, because the boy's asleep and I don't know if he knows, and yet the difference between one and the other is a world of contagion. Anyway, now he has to go get tested but since it's a holiday weekend
(I'm overhearing phone conversations that don't sound like things I want to hear this is not helping.)
Since it's a holiday weekend none of our doctors are in and we can't get tested at least until Monday. Mostly I want to go drag my brother and his informally fiancee over to the center and go "Excuse me, do you know what a massive breach of ethics and invitation to liability you've committed?"
Fucking tuberculosis. Do you know what you have to do to get rid of that shit? At best you have to take ridiculously powerful potentially debilitating drugs for a year. Okay, six months to a year. Side effects include nausea, fever, turning yellow... I just. Why the fuck would you not tell your staff.
Trying to keep busy today. It's semi-working. Things I want to do today include: Physics, get another 3k written on the Nano novel, maybe get some stuff written on the dime novel. Get things converted when I get home. Hindi, which I've also been neglecting. Chemistry notebook starting, because why not. Possibly Latin, or possibly just making an index of all the things I've allegedly learned in Latin so far. Eat dinner. Don't just eat candy for the rest of today. Stretch. Don't fall over. Find a good book and curl up with it. Relax. Stop freaking out.
(Yes, I realize that's not very likely to happen, but I can try.)
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Date: 2015-04-03 06:28 pm (UTC)... TB + asthma would be even worse, wouldn't it.
Nnnnngh.
Hope you can go home soooon.
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Date: 2015-04-03 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-04-03 06:32 pm (UTC)Da fuq is wrong with the universe? With the world? This is way too much crap in way too short a time and just. Nonononono. No. Fuck no.
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Date: 2015-04-03 09:33 pm (UTC)I am sending all the best everything your way, because just...ZOMG people.
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Date: 2015-04-04 04:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-04-04 02:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-04-04 04:58 pm (UTC)It turns out, once I got home and got to talking with the BF when he wasn't going to bed and I wasn't running out the door, that the patient is on treatment for TB and was tested positive, but it was a skin test positive and it's possible that he had it as a child, or at least years ago. In a more concrete sense than being a general possibility, I mean, there's something written down in his medical history. So it seems to be less of a risk than I first heard when "Oh, one of our patients has had TB for three months"?
Still going to get tested when my doctor's office opens again. Brr.
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Date: 2015-04-04 08:42 pm (UTC)