Male and Female Imponderables - If music be the food of love, play on
POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 13:04
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is't northern ireland or ROI you're in? (as far as i know you should get service, really ought to know since i work for the buggers, but unbless you develop severe challenging behaviours and/or a phsycosis, what i know about the NSH is unlikely to help 
) but yes, not sure why i asked which bit of ireland, mostly 'cos i'm not sure what the arrangments are in ROI, but the NHS should help everyone, s'what they're there for ^^
hey i sit up at 2:30 replying to forums on a frequent basis, doing it right now! although granted i'm not in a foreign country, well, except to everyone who isn't from it in the first place *ponders*
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Remember that foreign country at 2:30am bit? Urgh. I'll do my best w/o.
Sorry to be such a pain, it seems to me I have two modes when I'm annoyed, lash out at everyone else or lash at myself. Seems i do both pretty well.
Anyways, to the sleeping I may have been partially panicing about... something, i dunno what it was, bad dream or something. I'm gonna try sleepin again, calmed down a bit.
Thanks for being around, all. Cant say i got the answer i was hoping for, but i got something. But thanks for still being nice when I spilled my whiney guts all over you.
'Night. :-/
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon
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Come summertime, I used to come down with damn-near-fatal hayfever. It always did two things: It robbed me of my sense of smell and taste for two months, and it made my eyes itchy as hell, ooze something viscous and disgusting, and made it almost impossible to see.
For the first I was SOL (and it doesn't matter, because you didn't ask about hayfever), but for the eye, a simple stopgap I cottoned to was taking two adjacent sheets of paper towel and folding them down until the wad was as big as three thumbs. Then, I soak the thing in water, squeeze the excess (or not, if the day's been really bad), and lean back with it applied to the offending eye. Not only does it soothe (soooo cool... Soooo moist...), but it also helps clear away any discharge which might be troublesome.
Pity about the Ireland Eye Ire.
(I feel so witty)
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I ain't lookin' for help from on high. That's a damn long wait for a train don't come.
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Hey Whitefall, in case you can't sleep and come back, two things:
1. What does your eye feel like? I've had several different eye problems (including a raging case of pink eye that took over three months to clear up, but which I now suspect was something else), so I might be able to take an educated guess at the problem.
2. I just replied to you in the "When I Grow Up" topic in Talk Story, which might cheer you up a bit.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Lol, i'm back, got a little shuteye, then, i dunno, couldnt get back to it. Eye is still bugging me, but i think it's on the way out, my biggest problem atm is getting rid of the discharge. Sorry for all the weirdness and grossness, been a weird sort of day.
I think i'll try that paper towel thing now. And CK, thanks, for both. Nice to know my backup plan wasnt totally nuts. 
to all. (because Rose controls the awesome power of the :hug:).
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon
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Backup plans are good things, as is double checking them with family, friends, and local schools. But in the end, nothing it totally safe, and only you can decide how much danger you're willing to live with. (For instance, hubby and I lived for years with the knowledge that he could be laid off at any point in time, and I've been doing the "will we or won't we have funding in three months" dance for over three years now. But we love this industry, we accept the risks and plan for them, and try not to be too shocked when the worst we planned for comes to pass.)
On a totally different topic, MsG, I have a link for you! My brother, the very staunch Mormon boy, returned Missionary currently attending BYU and trying to find that special girl before he reaches the dreaded Old Maid age of 25, sent me this link: http://wesclark.com/ubn/ The Utah Baby Namer. Very silly stuff. And I'd imagine you'd have some names to add to it.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Ahhhh morning..... tis nice. ok, so my night turned out to be all of about 7 hours, but there comes a point where a bit of lost sleep is worth it to move on with teh life.
Thanks for all being.... thanks.
So.... can we ponder something?
"But, these strong women characters?"
"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon
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Bwa, I should just never sleep!
Azhea, love the sign! Shiny!
OK, multi-tasking, yeah. I used to be able to do it better; I'd listen to music all the time, and I still listen to a lot, but if I really need to focus I can't anymore. I used to read and eat, read and talk on the phone... never read and watched TV, though, I've always just sat through movies. Anyway, that hyper-alertness I had in my youth faded as I became an adult.
Whitefall, in my personal experience (not a doctor) the irritant is probably not gone and the eye needs to be thoroughly flushed with saline solution. I once had an eyelash that fell in my eye and got sticky on the sleep goop and was stuck in the corner my eye for two days before I got it flushed out. I'm in the same boat as you in that area; my mom kept insisting I was imagining things and just "doing that thing" I supposedly do of "insisting" there's something in my eye. I showed her the big huge eyelash when I got it out and she has since not doubted me. hope it gets better, sweetie! I have had too many things in my eye, I know what it's like! Get some solution, hold the eye open, and flush it real good, then keep the solution for any future problems. And try to remove as much sticky stuff from the corners as you can; I think it's supposed to be there to help, but it's just sticky and can keep stuff caught in your eye. Carefully use the tip of your finger to pull down on the lid so you can clear it out.
As someone who has had a scratched cornea, it doesn't sound like the same thing. My eye (personally) did not hurt like that when my eye was scratched, it just watered a bit and kinda itched. I wouldn't even have thought it was a problem if I hadn't gone in for my eye exam that week and been told it was scratched. No contacts for ten days, I was sooooooo sad!
And yeah, you might have a few "mother-issues" to work through. Heaven knows I have a new "father-issue" crop up every few months and after every failed relationship. It's strange what our unconcious mind forms commitments around. Eurgh.
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Whitefall, listen to PR, she knows what she's talking about! 
The good news is that eye drops should be pretty easy to get, no matter where you are.
Oh, but in case it is pink eye, wash your hands a lot and try not to touch your face at all. And if you wear contacts, wash your hands, then take out the contact from one eye, wash your hands again, then take out the other contact. I know that sounds silly, but that's how I ended up with pink eye (bad bad conjunctivitis, according to the doc) in both eyes: I'd stick my fingers in one eye and then the other when I put in or took out my contacts.
Ok all, I'm off to watch a movie with hubby, and then to bed. See you all tomorrow!
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Can't flush eye with eyedrops, though. Needs a big bottle of solution for that. But those cost about the same 
I'm betting you don't wear contacts, though, because if you did you probably would have already flushed the eye with the solution (soooo soothing, even better than water) but yes, lots of hand-washing. There are infections that aren't pink-eye, but still infections and you don't wanna spread it to the other eye if it's that. I didn't have the same thing as CK, but I did have an infection once. Another time I had to go ten days without contacts 
I hate that.
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