Baby, are you sleeping again? Or did you fall off the deep end?

[sovay]

I was inside my regular doctor's office this afternoon for the first time in more than a year. It was a peculiar experience, by which I mean I correctly predicted that my vitals would show my heart rate and blood pressure trying to climb through the ceiling and go home. Since, counter to the doctor's expectations, my X-ray was clear, I've been sent home with a different course of steroids on a presumption of really stubborn bronchitis. Maybe I shouldn't have been rooting for it after all. I shotgunned a dozen shrimp dumplings, finished watching an episode of Columbo, and fell into my celebrated impersonation of a recumbent effigy. Not depicted: the immovable kitten curled into the crook of my knees, who made it very difficult to get up.

Comments

[nineweaving]

That's gorgeous.

I would rather you didn't having bronchitis, or any virus at all.

Nine

[sovay]

That's gorgeous.

Thank you. I do feel a bit palely loitering.

I would rather you didn't having bronchitis, or any virus at all.

Frankly, me, too. I just want it to be treatable. I am so tired of feeling I can't breathe all the way into my lungs. It's been months. I hate it. It's affecting my singing.

[selkie]

The Pre-Raphaelites had nothin' on your spouse. And I bet you didn't even get that bronchitis from latent TB.

[sovay]

The Pre-Raphaelites had nothin' on your spouse. And I bet you didn't even get that bronchitis from latent TB.

I like to think it would have showed up on the X-ray!

Tangentially, I feel you should know that when I mentioned to my mother that watching Columbo was reintroducing me to the buck wild men's fashions of the 1970's (I wasn't even talking about mustaches or jumpsuits, I was specifically trying to describe the lemon-colored jacket Robert Culp wears in "Double Exposure" (1973), which just keeps going), she said wistfully that that decade was the last flowering of the Scarlet Pimpernel. I had no idea she felt so strongly about the subject. I should find her some pictures of sapeurs.

[minoanmiss]

*beams at you* You are so handsome omg.

[sovay]

You are so handsome omg.

Agh. Thank you! *hugs*

[gwynnega]

That is a beautiful photo. I hope the steroids do the trick.

[sovay]

That is a beautiful photo. I hope the steroids do the trick.

Thank you, and thank you!

[thawrecka]

I hope you feel better soon!

[sovay]

I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you! I think it would be fun!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm sorry about the stubborn probably-bronchitis! I hope that it departs asap. *hugs*

[sovay]

I'm sorry about the stubborn probably-bronchitis! I hope that it departs asap

*hugs*

Thank you. I'm really hoping the steroids work!

[princessofgeeks]

Hoping a new round of antibiotics fixes you up. Thanks for the update.

[sovay]

Thanks for the update.

Of course. I'm hoping the next update will be better!

[a_reasonable_man]

Building on what's said above--this is new style--Somerville Pre-Raphaelite?

I very much hope you feel better soon.

[sovay]

Building on what's said above--this is new style--Somerville Pre-Raphaelite?

Somerville circa the pre-Raphaelites was incredibly industrial. That could produce fascinating results.

I very much hope you feel better soon.

Thank you!

[ashlyme]

Stylish! I just wish you didn't have the accompanying lungcrud. Look after you.

[sovay]

Stylish! I just wish you didn't have the accompanying lungcrud. Look after you.

Thank you! I'm doing my best.

[rinue]

Boo for bronchitis! Hooray for shrimp dumplings!

[sovay]

Boo for bronchitis! Hooray for shrimp dumplings!

Thank you!