Drowy (Drobabes) General OOC

[Poprockz]

Did anyone order a shot of good-feeling music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Fz9GUQ13w

@Jadeknight: Shit. XD That manatee gif.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

I’m a little worried about the big guy...

 

[JadeKnight]

 

[Drobabes]

 

[JadeKnight]

 

[Poprockz]

Love that actor. The white-haired one. Edit: shit, the first white-haired one.

Question: Since the invention and accessibility of showers was established, would one consider a bath more of a relaxation method? I mean, it can still get you clean, but I think more people just default to showers since they’re more efficient.

Edit 2: @Drobabes: <_< you okay there, missus?

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

Maybe I’m broken, but I don’t find baths effective for either cleanliness or relaxation...

The only time I’ve been glad I took a bath as an adult was when my water heater was broken. Lying in the empty tub and letting it slowly fill up around me was a nearly painless way to acclimate to the cold.

 

[Drobabes]

Edit 2: @Drobabes: <_< you okay there, missus?

https://youtu.be/5UUjJysUMTw

>me after being a zombie all day and my husband slapping the huge bruise on my leg then looking me dead in the eyes and saying "I'm just reminding you that you're mortal-go to the fucking doctor, it's not getting better, it's getting worse"

As for your bath question, I love baths. I find them very relaxing, but only after I have taken a very quick shower to get clean, that way I don't feel like I'm sitting in nasty, dirty, water

Now if you'll excuse, I'm going to drink a redbull and just be absolutely shitty to myself before the health insurance goes through the doctor starts smacking my knuckles with a ruler....

 

[Drobabes]

Maybe I’m broken, but I don’t find baths effective for either cleanliness or relaxation...

The only time I’ve been glad I took a bath as an adult was when my water heater was broken. Lying in the empty tub and letting it slowly fill up around me was a nearly painless way to acclimate to the cold.

>Nearly painless

>nearly

>_>

 

[Poprockz]

@Noug: Hm. That sounds pretty brutal. You, my good sir, need some bath fizzies or something. There’s nothing like marinating yourself in hot water that smells like vanilla or mint or something.

@Drobabes: indeed, mortal you are. Mm. Trip to the doctor you must take, yes. Lest risk going to the dark side.

<_< I don’t like the taste of red bull. It tastes like... shitty electricity to me.

Edit: that cockatoo video about made me spit out my orange juice. XD

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

That’s the thing though! I fikly expected it to be brutal, and it was just...regular bad. Regbad. Normsuck. You get it.
It definitely would’ve been better with some fizzy vanilla, though. I could’ve pretended I was an ingredient in one of those weird old-fashioned sodas from the olden days, like an egg cream malted or some shit.

Edit: Drobabes! Go to the doctor! They take classes for these things!

 

[Drobabes]

Edit: Drobabes! Go to the doctor! They take classes for these things!

@Drobabes: indeed, mortal you are. Mm. Trip to the doctor you must take, yes. Lest risk going to the dark side.

<_< I don’t like the taste of red bull. It tastes like... shitty electricity to me.

Edit: that cockatoo video about made me spit out my orange juice. XD

*starts flapping arms and growling in demonic tones of protest*

I got the yellow, tropical redbull

 

[Poprockz]

@Drobabes: It’s the eyes of the cockatoos that really crack me up too. They just give off that “I’ll fuckjn’ murder you!” Vibe.

So tropical shitty electricity?

So wait, are you going to the doctor tonight? Are they still open?

 

[Drobabes]

No, not tonight, just like, gotta actually go. I've been putting it off, but I'm actually buying health insurance tonight so I can start going back and continue the conversation me and the doctor were having about all the tests and stuff.

It's just been slowly progressing over the last few years from

-annoying and painful symptoms but manageable

to

-full out interfering with my life

As much as I hate it, I'm just probably going to have to get the testing done, get it confirmed, and then probably starting taking medicine. I gotta suck it up and just hope the medicine won't interfere too much, cause the alternative is either pain all the time, or sleeping most of the day if I am not forcing myself to move. *shrug*

Edit:

https://youtu.be/OPMPnBr9d4c

He does sorta have that "i will kill you" look XD

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

That sucks.

Do the expected side effects sound pretty bad?

 

[Drobabes]

I'm not sure, as I'm not sure what I'll need. All I know if the last time I was in there, she told me that it was mild (compared to the other cases of lupus), and that I should try to get control over it while we work on getting me tested and all that, cause if I have to take the immuno suppressants, it will decrease quality of life. So I think that's kinda scared me off, combined with how frustrating it was to try and just get the test to confirm it. I made an appointment, a year in advance (cause that's how long the waiting list was), only to have them cancel said appointment about three months before it was time because the doctor who does it was going on vacation. I was really frustrated because it was -just- the test to see if that's actually what I have, not any of the steps moving foreword to treat it. I guess I should have just stuck with it, but I kind of got it in my head that if I was just really healthy and took care of myself, it wouldn't get so bad.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

They cancelled an appointment that you made a year in advance!
I’m sorry, but if you’re going to let people schedule appointments with you that far out, you should schedule your vacations that far in advance. I would understand if it were an emergency, but it just seems disrespectful to jerk someone around like that.

I can see why you got disheartened, but hopefully it’s not as bad as they made it sound...

 

[Drobabes]

Hopefully not. I mean at this point though, even if the medicine or whatever they want to give me does make me a little sick, it will be better than doing nothing because I'm not managing it despite trying very hard too. Even when I get proper sleep and don't stress out or overwork myself, I'm still getting sick. Risk vs benefit at this point.

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

That makes sense. It sounds like the best decision, although I’m sure you’ll get more information and better advice as you go through this process. It sucks that you have to do that at all, though.

 

[Poprockz]

Oh okay.

<_< I would totally be disheartened by that dickery as well. That's just fucking ridiculous, scheduling someone a year in advance for a test and not even just rescheduling everyone for when the doctor gets back. They should have just scooted everyone's appointments back by 2 weeks instead of just cancelling some of them. Seriously, that's some shit.

Well... I get what you're saying on that. :/ I struggle with that too- putting health things off. It's like you just want to hold on to a semblance of normalcy. Everyone knows that putting something off doesn't change the fact that it's still there, but it's just really stressful to face what the doctor might say.

I hope once you get the insurance in place and start taking something for it that even though the meds might suck, it'll be a better existence for you. People can get used to a lot of shit, but at some point it just gets to a point where you can't stand to be miserable anymore.

On that bright note, I'll have my fingers crossed that things go well for you at the doctor's.

 

[Drobabes]

That makes sense. It sounds like the best decision, although I’m sure you’ll get more information and better advice as you go through this process. It sucks that you have to do that at all, though.

Yea, I'm hoping that getting to talk to a doctor that is trained to treat it will open up some options for me. Just unlike a lot of other basic health stuff, they can't treat me for lupus if they can't confirm I have it. Which makes sense on a certain level, but I would think it would not be so challenging then just to get tests done. It's not like it's that common, but maybe there's just some part of the system I'm not understanding.

@Poprockz

It was ridiculous, and when I tried to fight it and call around to other doctors, no one wanted to even give me the time of day. They were 'willing' to reschedule, but the reschedule date wasn't for like another six months or something ridiculous after I had already been waiting so long.

>It's like you just want to hold on to a semblance of normalcy. Everyone knows that putting something off doesn't change the fact that it's still there, but it's just really stressful to face what the doctor might say.

Yea that's a really good way of putting it. And I'm sure I probably jumped on the more hopeful option of trying to just control it myself because I didn't want to deal with the doctors if I didn't have to.

 

[Poprockz]

@Drobabes: Yeah, that's fucking ridiculous. I wish the medical state of America wasn't so broken.

Yeah, and I bet you taking care of yourself contributed to you not having to go in until now, but I suppose it's one of those things that you can only delay for so long on good behavior.

 

[Drobabes]

Yea I don't think I can keep putting it off anymore. I'm just getting more and more days where it's interfering too much to do basic stuff.

Anyway... Got called into work. Should be a chillax day, but oof >_<

 

[Poprockz]

Yeah, I hear you. :/

<_< Welp. That’s unfortunate. They making you do a full shift?

 

[Drobabes]

Ah, kinda

I'm probably going to leave early. They have enough people