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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

Only a matter of time, I'm sure

(I think the one who SOLD your narcotic painkillers was the best)

WAIT WHICH ONE WAS THIS

i thought i had gout the other week.

I thought I had a colonic ulcer last week. Turns out I was full of shit.

i cut off the detached dangly part of my ear by running into a barb-wire fence and had to have it sewed back on when i was a kid. that ought to keep your bloodlust satisfied for a bit, sara.

xpost to dan: 4L1

2nd xpost to dan: hahahaha

John, is the word you're looking for there "earlobe?"

HA I THOUGHT SO

I'm kind of wondering if John's long list of diseases and his long list of ex-es could be cross-referenced into some sort of useful medical index.

Also VERY SAD that I never met this 4L1 person

I really, really love bringing up the story where we all went out to dinner with my family and she got my parents to buy her wine and then told them she was 19 after her third glass!

The waves of "oh shit" that rolled across the table with differing degrees of murderous intent...!

It is a very good story. Your poor parents!

Of course, if she had gone on to offer to sell them someone else's prescription narcotics, that would have been even better.

There are just things you can't hope for, I guess.

my penchant for dating crazed and dangerous women was perhaps not the best life plan but it was exciting at the time

4L1: Anyone want more wine...?
MY DAD: I think we're done with that for the evening.
MY MOM: *appalled glower*
THE REST OF US: *squirm squirm squirm*

I do enjoy the end result: AWESOME STORIES xpost

omg Dan, soooooo wishing I had been there!!!!

Actually, the better story is when my college roommate who moved to MN bailed early on his bachelor party, which was being held on my dad's boat, so the rest of us hung out and told various stories about our sexual encounters, all the while not knowing that my dad had not in fact gone home but was hanging out on a neighboring boat and listening to all of our nonsense.

OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Er, I'm sorry... I mean, how embarrassing!

Although, what, did your father just re-appear at the end of the evening and say, "WELL THAT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE!!!" or what?!