I'm getting better. Slowly. Frustratingly slowly. But not because of the pneumonia or anything like that... That's seeming gone now, and really that would be too easy. One opportunistic infection just isn't enough for me! ( [content warning: TMI, bacterial infection in sensitive location] )

Somewhere I picked up the meme that the 2016 election, Facebook and fake news are the crisis points directing us to implement ethics in computer science, just as the atomic bomb was a crisis point for physics and ethics in psychiatry have ...somewhat advanced since phrenology ( Read more... )

I'm home from the ER. ( Read on for the gory details. (Just kidding, I'm pretty gentle.) )

I have a pilonidal cyst.

(Don't google it; you don't really want to know.)

OMW to the ER (after my phone finishes syncing) before the pain gets any worse.

Could my body be any more fucked up? (Please don't answer that in the affirmative, as it can fucking hear you and magically give itself diabetes or some shit.)

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Wide awake at 6AM. Unfortunately no one else is. Except my dad, amusingly enough-- eh.

So my big frightening thing is that I may actually get in to see a PCP for the first time in years (my MI has been treated by a great team who are funded through the state, but physical health isn't funded through that program) and I have all these things I ( Read more... )

CURSE YOUR SUDDEN BUT INEVITABLE BETRAYAL, BODY.

(headache with stabbing pains in left temple. likely to turn into migraine.)