Friday Five
Sep. 14th, 2007 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tabular_rasaHow appropriate:
1. What was the most sick that you've ever been? My appendix burst when I was 13, and no one knew about it for ten days. I went to the doctor the day it burst, but he was looking for symptoms of a yet-unburst appendix, so I went home. My mom told it was probably just menstrual cramps (or maybe cysts) and I should suck it up because I'd get them every month. As I'd only had my first period almost exactly one month before (terrible timing, huh?), I believed her. I floored the doctors when I finally went in and got a CT scan. I was sent to surgery immediately to insert a drain for the poison, stayed in the hospital for a week and at home on antibiotics for another week (with a foot-long IV in my arm that took an hour to get in at the hospital O.o), and then had the shell of the appendix removed three months later.
2. What disease are you afraid of getting? Anything that degenerates my mind, particularly my memory, like Alzheimer's or even amnesia.
3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses? Medicines don't bother me at all, but I don't take them unless I really have to. (I refused morphine through that whole appendix thing, actually, because I just didn't feel I needed it. I am HARDCORE :-P). I had always been perfectly okay with needles until that foot-long IV I mentioned above. Now, I'm still not overtly afraid of them, but when I went to give blood last year I think my body remembered and rebelled; I passed out before they even got the needle in me! It was ridiculous!
4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad? No, not at all.
5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it? Maybe for a period of time, like a year. It would get old after a while-- but the only reason I hate being sick is my lack of productivity, and if I'm earning money than I don't have to worry so much about that.
1. What was the most sick that you've ever been? My appendix burst when I was 13, and no one knew about it for ten days. I went to the doctor the day it burst, but he was looking for symptoms of a yet-unburst appendix, so I went home. My mom told it was probably just menstrual cramps (or maybe cysts) and I should suck it up because I'd get them every month. As I'd only had my first period almost exactly one month before (terrible timing, huh?), I believed her. I floored the doctors when I finally went in and got a CT scan. I was sent to surgery immediately to insert a drain for the poison, stayed in the hospital for a week and at home on antibiotics for another week (with a foot-long IV in my arm that took an hour to get in at the hospital O.o), and then had the shell of the appendix removed three months later.
2. What disease are you afraid of getting? Anything that degenerates my mind, particularly my memory, like Alzheimer's or even amnesia.
3. Are you a big baby when it comes to taking medicine/shots for your illnesses? Medicines don't bother me at all, but I don't take them unless I really have to. (I refused morphine through that whole appendix thing, actually, because I just didn't feel I needed it. I am HARDCORE :-P). I had always been perfectly okay with needles until that foot-long IV I mentioned above. Now, I'm still not overtly afraid of them, but when I went to give blood last year I think my body remembered and rebelled; I passed out before they even got the needle in me! It was ridiculous!
4. Is going to the doctor really THAT bad? No, not at all.
5. Would you have the flu twice a month if you were paid $1,000 for having it? Maybe for a period of time, like a year. It would get old after a while-- but the only reason I hate being sick is my lack of productivity, and if I'm earning money than I don't have to worry so much about that.
