on sabbatical

[strippedscrew]

Hey folks. It's been awhile, I know. Between broken girlparts, a broken bank account, and a broken heart, I haven't had much to write about that would have been worth reading, so I just spared you and went AWOL for a time. Life is on the mend in many ways, however, although that may also just be a mental illusion caused by the rare phenomena of

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[aparecida]

oh, no, sorry about the ambiguity -- what I meant by saying they didn't have the means to do the test at the time was that I went to a Planned Parenthood for the "diagnosis" and they didn't have the financial resources to even do a viral swab culture for herpes, let alone a blood test. They simply didn't offer actual testing for herpes. They told me that I could go get a swab test done somewhere if I wanted but it would have to be in the next day or two to get an accurate result before the blisters burst. I didn't have the money to go to a private gyno and pay for the test since I didn't have insurance at the time, and even if I had had the money, I wouldn't have been able to get an appointment within the next day or two. So I just took them at their word. When school started back, I had free access to the student health clinic which was able to give me a blood test.

I'd understand better if they'd diagnosed herpes and it'd turned out to be chicken pox, but it wasn't -- it was molluscum. When my ex went to student health, they told him after about five seconds' glance that it was definitely not herpes and that it was almost certainly molluscum. Which is why I'm so bitter that a Planned Parenthood gyno with forty years' experience told me it didn't look remotely like anything other than herpes and that he would be greatly surprised if it was anything else.