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Thread: fucking itching and the idiot who doesn't think it matters
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Fuck this fucking itchy post surgical skin and the idiot it rode in on ( namely, me). And the nurse who refused to even look at it but said to her poor wee subordinate, "just tell her to go get some hydrocortisone cream." Fuck you very much, lady. I have hydrocortisone cream up the wazoo, two benadryl by mouth and a ton more by skin, ice packs, and a full dose of hydrocodone--and it isn't fucking doing a fucking thing. My abdomen looks like hamburger. My family go in fear of the hivy red monster who has inflicted herself upon them. There are thirteen and a half hours yet before i can go see the NICE allergist, who will give something stronger than bathwater to cope with this. Meanwhile i can't even take a fucking bath, because of six fucking incisions.
I'm going to be the awake and awful asshole from hell all night, as I try not to scratch. Fuck you very much, idiot, for all your fucking help.
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Martin60
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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See, children, what itching can do to a person. Lamb Chopped is normally the most calm, reasonable, and logical person on the ship, and now see what she's become.
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Leaf
Shipmate
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Reminds me of Dave Barry's "A Rash Proposal", in which he goes to a doctor hoping the doc will prescribe "one of those three-pronged garden implements" and instruct him to "rake it across the rash every 10 seconds or as needed."
Wishing you relief and peace, and non-idiot medical care.
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe RooK-Annoyer
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quote: Originally posted by Lamb Chopped: Fuck you very much, lady. I have hydrocortisone cream up the wazoo...
Have you tried putting it on the rash?
All the best for your healing lamb chopped.
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Mockingale
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Whenever I'm uncomfortable, I just drink the discomfort away. Or maybe an oatmeal bath, if you like your liver. Sorry for the itching.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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*points at orfeo*
I do NOT want to irritate the red rashy harpy lady....
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the giant cheeseburger
Shipmate
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I wouldn't want to irritate her either.
Something else (an allergen of some kind or the attempt to shove hydrocortisone cream up the wazoo) seems to have taken care of that already.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote: Originally posted by Patdys: You got a rash too, huh?
get it straight. LC is Red Rashy Harpy Lady.
I'm Red Ragey Stabby Lady.
There will be a test.
-------------------- Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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quote: Originally posted by comet: quote: Originally posted by Patdys: You got a rash too, huh?
get it straight. LC is Red Rashy Harpy Lady.
I'm Red Ragey Stabby Lady.
There will be a test.
Sounds like LC could use a test. A lab test.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote: Originally posted by comet: *points at orfeo*
I do NOT want to irritate the red rashy harpy lady....
What, and you think that just because I'm in a different hemisphere, it'd be safer for me?
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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I keep wanting to sing the thread title to the tune of "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" by Journey but it doesn't quite scan.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote: Originally posted by orfeo: quote: Originally posted by comet: *points at orfeo*
I do NOT want to irritate the red rashy harpy lady....
What, and you think that just because I'm in a different hemisphere, it'd be safer for me?
yep. pretty much.
see, Lamb Scratched? Orf's right over here. he's holding the farm implement. just think how goooood it will feel to rake that bad boy across the ol' hives.
now, sick him!
*hides*
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote: Originally posted by mousethief: I keep wanting to sing the thread title to the tune of "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" by Journey but it doesn't quite scan.
fuckin'... itchin'.... oooooooozin'....my derma..... I'm tearing me apart, with every every IIIIICH I'm tearing me apart, oh this rash's a bitch
It won't be long... ohhh! til the doctor's home I just can't way-eee-yay-ee-ait, ooooh for that cortizone and I'll be rubbin'...I'll be sighin'.... I'll be sleep-ay-ah-in'... like a mu-fucker! [ 16. November 2013, 04:28: Message edited by: comet ]
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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You're not supposed to drink hydrocortisone, either.
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Let's not rush to any rash decisions. Six incisions are enough.
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L'organist
Shipmate
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Lamb Chopped
Probably a reaction to the steriliser they swabbed your skin with pre-operation.
1. Gently wash the entire area (they'll have swabbed from John O'Groats to Lands End) with mild face wash or anything you know doesn't make you itch.
2. Don't apply any more hydrocortisone cream - some people find it makes them itch more and you may be one.
3. Apply a little honey, if necessary mixed with a smidgeon of water.
Cover loosely.
DRINK WHISKY.
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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I itch 24/7 as I have psoriasis and dry eczema, you have my sympathy and empathy.
My only advice is to train your brain to ignore it - which is easier some days than others.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Dear God. I'm a red hivy harpy, and you torment me with Journey?
There is no mercy in this world.
-------------------- Er, this is what I've been up to (book). Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Mockingale
Shipmate
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quote: Originally posted by Lamb Chopped: Dear God. I'm a red hivy harpy, and you torment me with Journey?
There is no mercy in this world.
Don't Stop. Believin'.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Here's a poem for you.
Moo
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Mockingale
Shipmate
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quote: Originally posted by Lamb Chopped: ... and you don't want to know what I did to get it. Don't make me hurt you.
Anyway you want it. That's the way you need it.
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Thank you, Moo.
Mockingale:
quote: Hatchet-killings ain’t a crime: Summertime is itchy time.
quote: "I will do such things -- what they are yet I know not -- but they shall be the terrors of the earth!"
-------------------- Er, this is what I've been up to (book). Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Mockingale
Shipmate
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quote: Originally posted by Lamb Chopped: Mockingale:
quote: "I will do such things -- what they are yet I know not -- but they shall be the terrors of the earth!"
I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!
/Who's crying now? [ 16. November 2013, 13:29: Message edited by: Mockingale ]
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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LC, can you get Epaderm or similar where you are?
After years of suffering, I finally saw a GP with an interest in dermatology who told me that the various STUFFS they put in "creams" as a preservative do, in fact, often exacerbate the condition (something no Consultant Dermatologist had ever suggested). Epaderm (no, I'm not on commission), otoh, is an oil-based preparation that allows the skin to heal by itself and certainly stops the itching ime. [ 16. November 2013, 15:51: Message edited by: Jahlove ]
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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reality check, idiots - remember that the Ship (and sure as shit not Hell!) is not a good source of medical advice and the crazy crap these idiots are spouting is probably a bunch of fantasy and does no good whatsoever. However, even if you morons happen to have the really real for-sure cure for the common hive, we're not the place. you want to offer LC your medical advice, keep it private and off the boards.
of course, you all already know this, you just forgot, right?
comet, Hellhost
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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MWA-HA-HA-HA. He gave me the GOOD stuff.
After eyebrows getting higher and higher as I told him all the shit I'd tried at once. I thought they'd get tangled up in his hairline.
He is a good Catholic and considers itching to be a Device of the Devil.
He offered no opinion on the provenance of the nurse who blew me off. [ 16. November 2013, 18:08: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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I've got a rusted farm implement for ya. Used by a friend of mine who had to clear out some underbrush to plant an herb garden. Naturally, she was quite pleased with her handiwork, and had me over to show it off.
"Um, Helen? That's poison ivy by the cilantro."
The look on her face when I pointed out what she'd been elbow-deep in the day before—simultaneously priceless and frightening. Of course I faked it and put on my best Sympathyface when she called me a day later, her arms and legs covered in weeping rashes. Somehow, taunting irate women with RFI's and a nasty case of the Rash doesn't seem like a good idea, even to sometimes dimwits like me.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote: Originally posted by Lamb Chopped: MWA-HA-HA-HA. He gave me the GOOD stuff.
After eyebrows getting higher and higher as I told him all the shit I'd tried at once. I thought they'd get tangled up in his hairline.
He is a good Catholic and considers itching to be a Device of the Devil.
He offered no opinion on the provenance of the nurse who blew me off.
Kicking the gong around, are we?
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