Me and my amoebae
I’ve got amoebas! I’m Officially Sick!
I’m quite strangely cheerful and excited about this, which makes perfect sense when you consider that (a) I have been feeling nauseous on and off since last Wednesday—though not dramatically ill enough to be dramatically ill and get it over with, or not work—and I’m getting a bit fed up with it, and now I have a prescription to make me better, and (b) Mike said the doctor [who is on campus, and free] would want stool samples, and he didn’t. I feel as one reprieved. Only the prospect of neverending nausea made me swallow my dignity and go.
My dignity is not, however, unscathed. The doctor played at poking my stomach really hard and asking if it hurt (“yes it does, you’re poking it really hard…”). At the sight of my skin he recoiled in horror, crying “You’re too pale! Are you always that colour?”. To which my response was a mumbled Yes, but in my head was “Yes, you fucker, yes I am. We can’t all be a nice shade of brown, and as it happens corpse white IS my natural hue where not exposed to sunshine, Mr Sensitive Bedside Manner”. Fucker.
Still, I’ve got amoebas! Yay!
posted by Eloise @ 1:33 pm
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4 Comments:
Christ, worthy looking spam on your blog Eloise, at the very least they could have wished you get well soon.
Hope your amoebae soon disappear. Somehow they sound a bit more cuddly than bacteria. Although the people at http://www.giantmicrobes.com/ don't seem to share my theory.
Get well wishes,
L xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_poor_ E - get well soon. Incidentally, how do you get amobeas? What tropical madness do you have?
*hug*
G.
Thank you for the sympathy/good wishes. I actually don't feel that bad, and I think my medicine is going to make me better, so really it's all good.
Also my medicine has turned my wee dayglo highlighter-pen yellow, which amuses me in my own weird little way.
In answer, you get amoebas by eating/drinking something in which they are hiding. It happens.
I agree that amoebae sound kinda cute - I think it's because of those bubble monster diagrams one drew at school. Possibly that's why I am relatively cheerful about them, even though they do not feel cute. Maybe someone should suggest to the microbe people that they branch out into amoebas?
Thank you for the sympathy/good wishes. I actually don't feel that bad, and I think my medicine is going to make me better, so really it's all good.
Also my medicine has turned my wee dayglo highlighter-pen yellow, which amuses me in my own weird little way.
In answer, you get amoebas by eating/drinking something in which they are hiding. It happens.
I agree that amoebae sound kinda cute - I think it's because of those bubble monster diagrams one drew at school. Possibly that's why I am relatively cheerful about them, even though they do not feel cute. Maybe someone should suggest to the microbe people that they branch out into amoebas?
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