Ew, diseases!

[emmuzka]

My home sitting and plant watering friend called: She has chicken pox! And I’m coming home for the easter. The disease is supposed to transfer only via droplet infection, but I’m concerned anyway. I called to my mother to ask if I’ve had it as a child. She said that most probably I have not. She also informed me that for catching it, it might be enough to be in a same room with a virulent person and that because of the secondary diseases it’s counted as dangerous on adults. So, depending on the stage of the disease she will have when I arrive, it’s either catching a ride in her car to home or “Throw me my keys!” An excellent reason to clean the flat the first thing, anyway.

Also, at work I’m trying to make a media analysis after news abstracts made by somebody else. It just doesn’t work that way. For the added bad luck, the authot of the abstract has managed to strip all additional info off and produce only the essential facts. Argh! I don’t need to know only what was said, I need to know how it was said! Without that info, I’m not sure if the analysis can be made at all. Unless I’ll add some of my own views in it, but that would be unprofessional.

I met twillingar on Wednesday and I got to chat about fanfics, slash, livejournal and fandom wanks with her. Good time. Also she loaned her “Eroica With Love” mangas for me :). Already read the first one. According to the fan fiction, I waited for something a tad more serious, but it’s very light hearted. It’s still good, but very, very light hearted.

Comments

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

Poor her! But if she got it allready, she'll propably not be contagious anymore during easter. Lets hope so, since I'll be visiting at easter too! With my baby...

And by the way... I have a clear memory of all of us sisters having chicken-pox when we were children. (S during christmas, and not eating anything, and we having it right after her, when the school should have started. She was quite envious...) I'll try to check that.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

That was tuhkarokko, not chicken pox (= vesirokko)

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

I remember it being chicken-pox, allright. Measles we had too, me and S, but you did not.

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

Checked my old papers. No measles (tuhkarokko)... But yes, we have had (or at least I have, propably you too) chicken-pox (vesirokko -87) and German measles (vihurirokko -81)

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Hmm. MOther has the pink card board health cards in the plastic sleewes which should hold the information on that, but she can reach them only in sunday.

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

I have my own pink card board healt card right here in front of me. Got it from mom a couple of years ago. I checked from it. Your card might hold different information, since this one is only mine. Consult mother, if your card is still with her.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh god. o.0 that would really, REALLY suck if you got the chicken pox. i suppose there's no way you can avoid her?

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Well, she has my only house keys, so I at least have to meet her long enough to receive them. Also, she was supposed to help me clean the House of the Old Relative, but we'll have to scratch that.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

*sends anti-bacterial vibes* or is that anti-viral?

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Huh. Here's to hoping you don't get the pox!

I don't know what I've had as a child either, except for chicken pox since I was, what, ten when I had it, thus old enough to remember it. Mom has lost all our health card whatnots, so we'll never know what to watch out for. But according to mom we had pretty much every disease known to man, and then some that even the doctors couldn't recognise. XD

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

He! Our mom is an archiving genious! She always has all the important papers (and in order!) when we need them. She's the most organized person on this earth!

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Argh... our mom should take lessons from your mom. Ours isn't just disorganized, it's a case of bad memory as well. She has unorganized stashes of paper all around the house and digging into them produces some really surprising things. Which are rarely the ones you were looking for.

Also, that icon is insanely cute. :D

[twindouble.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Your icons are also endearingly cute.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if you or Shiroi_chi are going home for the easter. If not, I could offer you some paid house cleaning work ;)

[anglepoiselamp.livejournal.com]

Heee, interesting prospect... :]

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely advice against getting chicken pox now. My dad got vesirokko (whatever in English) from us kids, had HUGE red blisters all over his body and 40 C fever and had to be taken to the hospital for over a week. Also, we didn't know what was wrong with him until they ran tests in the hospital.

So, children's diseases when you're adult -> not good and possibly life-threatening.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

That's pretty concerning, since my friend lives alone and is on the mercy of the public health care :(

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone could call her/she could call someone in regular intervals and give an update about her well-being? That way it would be easier to determine if a trip to the hospital is needed (unlike my dad who was practically half-dead before he finally admitted the blisters weren't going away on their own).