Are you a big enough fan of HP to want one of these dolls?

Ay yi yi! Nightmare fuel indeed. Although I admit that my repulsion to newborn baby dolls has a longer history. I don't get wanting a doll version of a newborn. It has all the uncanny awkwardness of the eek!fetal human! quality that newborns have, with none of the delicious humanity and hormone-driven YUM! Must snuggle!

Steph, I usually think of antibiotics as bringing fairly fast relief, and then by the end of the course the pills themselves start making me tired. So if you felt better before you started feeling tired, I'd say they've probably done their job.

Daaaamn, that is a pretty sparkly deep burgundy, and I need matching lipstick.

Hmm, well dang, now I need to think further. It seems like Yasmine with glitter. Is that about right?

It must be extremely frustrating to be charting these tiny improvements instead of being able to say, definitively, "Okay, I'm all better now!"

Plus, people keep asking me how I'm feeling, in the way that polite people do, and I feel like I'm admitting to failure when I tell them I'm not feeling all the well just yet. Like *I* am deliberately not getting well.

And then you have insistent people who are all "Well, you SHOULD be feeling better by now!" Uh, okay. Can you come over and wave your magic wand and make it so? Sheesh.

Tep, that's a wait to me. Unfortunately.

So if you felt better before you started feeling tired, I'd say they've probably done their job.

Well, I guess "less bad" probably clinically equals "better," actually, and right now the not-feeling-great is coming from the antibiotic-associated fatigue, not the lingering Black Death.

I hope. t hand to forehead, dramatic pose

Tep, that's a wait to me. Unfortunately.

Well, at least I'm feeling validated in my personal medical-decision-making skills.

Plus, people keep asking me how I'm feeling, in the way that polite people do, and I feel like I'm admitting to failure when I tell them I'm not feeling all the well just yet. Like *I* am deliberately not getting well.

Fuck 'em.

And then you have insistent people who are all "Well, you SHOULD be feeling better by now!" Uh, okay. Can you come over and wave your magic wand and make it so?

Fuck 'em with a chainsaw.

I just opened Google and can't remember why.

I am totally going home early. Dang.

Those people are rude!

I'd wait three more days unless you start feeling worse. I know from my experience and Mom's that antibiotics makes us both really tired. Mom gets sinus infections quite a bit, and she's usually wiped out by the end of the treatment but then feels a lot better.

I wanted to go home early and work from there, because my body just isn't behaving, but a mysterious team meeting has just popped up on my calendar, and I think there's behooving going on about me being there in person. I will need to nap after my noon meeting.

Seriously, you guys are making me feel all validated. Thanks!

And knowing that other people get their butts kicked by antibiotics makes me much less worried that it's the plague.

(I remembered what I had Google open for: today's air quality. I am 89 years old, you see, and I wanted to know what the air quality index was.)