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chlamydia
leprosy

BOTH CORRECT REMY WINS

oh, wait, chlamydia?

i still think that despite the amusing sea captain disease, getting Scarlet Fever still wins my obscure extinct disease Family Feud round

anyone want to start a poll?

It's a close competition between Scarlet Fever and scurvy, but honestly I'd have to say SCURVY wins, John.

xposts to sara: no, not seeing a specialist. just doing my usual trick of ignoring it and hoping it will go away. right now i just can't handle the expense. it's not like i can't walk or anything, it's jsut that being on my feet for 40 or more hrs p/week is aggravating it (cramping and the like).

someone emailed me with this re getting married while on a visa, getting a status adjustment and staying in the US:
"The laws have changed. The beneficiary of a student visa would be sent home for a mandatory 2 years after they study. It would require special circumstances to be allowed to stay as this option is no longer on the table. Other options no longer on the table include marrying on a tourist visa and just staying and filing for AOS."

so, you know, maybe i'll get my foot sorted out here when i have to come back and spend another two fucking years here ;_; jesus fucking christ

OMG JERGINS WHATEVER OF COURSE WE HAVE PB YOU BIG PHAT LIAR

I WILL TAKE PHOTO OF MYSELF EATING PB ON TOAST AS PROOF

xpost Especially since, you know, all you need to do is eat one of the billion enriched foods out there to avoid it...

Sara, where do you rank the time i bit through my tongue on the scurvy fever continuum?

xpost I always used to eat peanut butter on toast as my late night snack.

RR, I am worried about your foot! And wtf with those laws?! FOR GOD'S SAKE

John, I'm pretty sure a lot more people bite through their tongues than get scurvy, so that goes lower.

SCURVY MAKES YOU SPECIAL

lol john had scurvy? I now know of two people who have had scurvy in america. did you perhaps acquire it by eating nothing but cheese pringles and drinking only tap water for a month?

I had shingles a few years ago

close. cap'n crunch and pepsi.

xpost i have never had shingles but hear that it SUCKS

Seriously, you guys, John is a walking encyclopedia of I Got This Weird Disease/ Had This Weird Accident

I'm not sure where to rank the incident with your chest/ribcage, however.

Tombot, I heard shingles SUCKS. It isn't very usual in someone as young as you are, either.

it is a kind of herpes, right?

no, it is a kind of chickenpox.

lolz at John and I both PHEARING TEH SHINGLES

yes, remy. It's secondary to having had chicken pox. The virus kind of goes on to live in your CNS forever. For some people, severe stress brings on shingles.

remy just accused my grandmother of having herpes ;_;

its ok shes dead now she won't mind so much

xpost To my understanding, you have to have had chicken pox first to get shingles.

One of the alleged benefits of chicken pox vaccinations is that you should not be getting shingles if you have never had chicken pox.

And yeah, chicken pox is a herpes virus. (With all apologies to John's grandma)

Wait... John has not had chicken pox.

A WINNER IS ME

shingles was a warning to me to stop working full time and going to two grad school courses a semester at night while shuttling back and forth between NYC and DC to maintain my long distance relationship. I did this for a year and a half.

i learned today that d.h. lawrence gave katherine mansfield the t.b. that killed her :(

yeah but john if you contract an infestion of varicella zoster as an adult your chances for nasty complications are higher plus it fucking suuuuuucks. happened to my aunt and to a friend of mine's now-ex-wife. Yurrrgh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

Herpes ZOSTER

Tom... I'm glad that you're living more sanely now.

John, you're a medical anomaly in *so many* ways

are we still talking about breaking limbs? i've broken my arm and my leg in separate skiing accidents.

And Tom's absolutely right, John, go to the doctor immediately and ask for a chicken pox vaccine. I think adults need two doses for immunity. No clue about boosters later.

bell_labs - what bones where they? I think the FEMUR would be the worst

One of our friends got shingles in high school. It was kind of alarming because he was almost preternaturally chilled out most of the time; it made you wonder what awful secrets he was hiding.

I imagine that John would instantly get chicken pox from the vaccine, but only on his balls.

it was my tibia down by my ankle. and my humerous. and i've also never had chickenpox.

The humerus would be... so awkward.

xpost I don't want to know any more about dark secrets of people from HSTNGS. At least I don't think I do.

i have never broken a bone, because it would distract from my efforts to get exotic dieases and disfigure myself

my mom taught piano lessons to poor kids in the downstairs of my home: my sister and i were constantly exposed to fleas, head lice, scabies, chicken pox, et al...

let me rephrase:

in the downstairs of my home, my mother taught ...

(we did not have an orphanage in the basement)

the arm breaking accident was an epic crash, involving hurtling into a judge's platform and still getting 4th place.

one of my exes and i caught fleas after comandeering an alley couch for our apartment. good times.

eww

i am a classy dude

Kids are walking disease vectors, it is true. xpost

bell_labs... WOW!

Stories about John's ex-es really do rank up there with his medical history. (I think the one who SOLD your narcotic painkillers was the best)

bell_labs,

what would you have needed to break to get first?

the legs of the three skiers that beat her

ZOMBIATHALON

my sis had shingles in high school, but she is diabetic and always getting weird stuff.

the year i broke my leg, i got to play the crippled soldier in the school play.

only bone breakage: my elbow, when i was 9. fell off my bike.

only slightly unusual illness: juvenile arthritis, when i was 4.

now i feel like ive failed you all by not getting shingles

yet