Everything That Is Not Allergies And Sinuses But Still TMI

[Luet]

None of the libraries that I go to even have self-checkout, even the city-ish ones.

[neo-dragon]

Just for a TMI, I'd venture to say at least half of the quiet time I have while I'm on the Circ desk is spent in some sort of sexual fantasy (thinking it, not doing it, weirdos). This is probably why I get so damn annoyed when a patron won't check out their own book at the Self Check that is a whopping 3 or 4 feet away from me. "He's getting to the good part in my head, you lazy, incompetent person! Now I have to start over from the beginning!"

So what you're saying is that you could teach the patrons a thing or two about self-service?

[mr_thebrain]

"Something important," haha. No, I think most people would welcome the interruption and are bored. I am probably in the minority on this one.

i only assume someone is bored if they look bored.

but i think you should wear a sign that says "not bored, just fantasizing" or "go away!" or "i'm picturing you naked" or "you're doing dirty things in my mind"

perhaps when you fantasize you look bored. in which case you need to step up your skills!

[Gravity Defier]

So what you're saying is that you could teach the patrons a thing or two about self-service?

Please meet our regular patrons and tell me you can be/stay aroused with that image in your head or hearing that joke.

"i'm picturing you naked" or "you're doing dirty things in my mind"

See above and as an addendum, I suspect I'm weird in this regard but I don't fantasize about strangers. Ever. Even the really attractive ones. I think to myself, "Hey, they're pretty good looking." and then move on. I will occasionally think, "Hey, they're pretty good looking. I wonder if they'd go out with me." but I don't progress to dirty thoughts of anyone unless I'm interested in the emotional stuff, too, and know them well enough to know they're not an attractive douche.

perhaps when you fantasize you look bored. in which case you need to step up your skills!

Hm. Might have a point. I tend to be pretty hard to read if I'm not engaged with someone else. As soon as it's time to escape into myself, my face goes kind of blank. My family knows this look rather well and will tend to ask what it is I'm so caught up in or will leave me alone, if they're not feeling curious.

[neo-dragon]

So what you're saying is that you could teach the patrons a thing or two about self-service?

Please meet our regular patrons and tell me you can be/stay aroused with that image in your head or hearing that joke.

I just meant that you could show them how to use the self check-out.

Wow, you are a perv.

[Mich]

Here's a TMI: I have always had really dry and flaky feet. Just on the bottom, the soles. Sometimes they're almost normal, a lot of times they're really gross and peely with dead skin in tiny little patches. I would pick at them when I was little, but have grown out of the habit. Every once in a while, though, I get a thick tiny patch that hooks on socks or carpet, so I just reach down and peel it off. But right now I have this really aggravating patch, about 4 mm square, that I can't. It's too thick. If I pull it off I'll bleed everywhere, and I know this because I stupidly pulled it halfway off. So it's now getting caught on everything and hurts when it does and I can't really do anything about it and it's so aggravating.

[Eaquae Legit]

Try clipping the worst of it off with nail clippers, and then let it heal up and take a pumice to it.

[Mich]

That's what I'm going to do. Well, minus the pumice stone, because I don't have one. I was just going to wait until after I took a shower, so it was super-soft, easier to manipulate.

[zeroguy]

I used to get that all the time. For some reason I don't think I've noticed it in the last... I wanna say couple of years or so. I'm not sure if I starting doing something different to make it go away.

[Petra456]

That's what I'm going to do. Well, minus the pumice stone, because I don't have one. I was just going to wait until after I took a shower, so it was super-soft, easier to manipulate.

You should get a pumice stone. I have the same problem and they REALLY help.

[Mich]

Actually I completely neglected to "trim" it and then checked on it last night and it had completely healed to the foot. So that's pretty cool.

[Eaquae Legit]

I'd still get a pumice stone for prevention. It's a lot easier.

[steph]

It actually sounds like a fungus to me. I'd get anti-fungal stuff and see if it helps.

[Wil]

My feet tend to shed once a year. Nothing deep, just the top first layer of skin. It's really gross. The ball of my foot tends to get really built up with a callous, and then split, and I usually end up pulling that skin away absent minded.

I also had a plantar wart problem that wasn't so little. I had one, and then one soggy foot in a soggy shoe afternoon later my foot has eight or nine. Then somehow my other foot got them. Took months for me to get rid of them. Finally the doctor just cut them away with a scalpel. We tried the OTC freeze-burn-them-off thing and it didn't work at all. It really looked terrible. (Gross, FYI)

Thankfully, those are gone.

[VelvetElvis]

I'd just like to be able to eat, you know? I feel nauseated pretty much all the time and I HATE IT. I take zofran sometimes as much 15 doses a week and have done so for over a year.

[Luet]

What causes the nausea? Or is it idiopathic?

[VelvetElvis]

After ultrasounds, nuclear scans, bloodwork, endoscopies, and biopsies.... it's still a crapshoot. I do have a hiatal hernia, but that shouldn't really be making me sick like this. My doctor is still adamant that it's my gallbladder. He even sent me to consult with a surgeon, who told me that considering the ultrasound showed no stones and my HIDA scan showed no problems at all, it would be a 50/50 chance of helping if I had it removed. I really don't want to have unnecessary surgery, especially considering I have no other symptoms and no family history.

At least it's not cancer, though, which was our first fear, because my maternal grandmother had it in her thirties.

[VelvetElvis]

double post.

I am now almost completely convinced that the stress of these growing pains is what made me so sick last night, because I read a couple "intense" posts and whoop, there goes lunch.

[Mich]

Alright, this one is pretty gross and about zits, but I need to tell someone, because it's just too weird.

I get zits on my back. I guess this is pretty common. Nothing too serious, just the occasional big one, right on my shoulder blade. They hurt like hell, so I normally do my best to make them not feel welcome. This has led to me bleeding through an expensive shirt when I don't even think about if it's a good time to pop one or not, but thus is life.

So yesterday the huge (relatively, we're not talking a mutant-sized ones, just ones that would stand out if they were on a face) zit on my back was bugging me, so I reached beneath my shirt, scratched off the tip or whatever you call it and pinched the offender. I thought I immediately felt something give way, thus signaling the end of the encounter, but when I brought my hand back to the front of me, I saw that I had a tiny black stone clenched between my fingers. It looked like an extremely tiny blueberry: almost perfectly round, with a tiny puckered "stem" at one end. Except it was as hard as a rock, and about two millimeters in diameter.

I kind of freaked out for a bit, before throwing it away in disgust and hearing it "ting" off of the wall. Like, WHAT THE HECK?

I've had light to moderate acne on my face and chest since I was sixteen, and normally deal with it by just leaving it alone; the ones on my back are pretty much the only ones I even can pop because the rest just kind of hover and scar up everything. But I've never had that. Anyway, from what the uninformed internet tells me, it was probably just the most gigantic blackhead ever. Which is equally disgusting.

[LilBee91]

This is probably way TMI, but ah well.

I have recently been eating Honey Smacks for breakfast, and it makes my pee smell like Honey Smacks. This does not happen with any other sugary cereals, and the scent is not just vaguely sweet. It smells EXACTLY like Honey Smacks. Clearly it just goes straight through my body.

[steph]

I haven't eaten Honey Smacks in years, but I know when I've had too much sugar because my pee smells exactly like it, too!

That sucks about the zit!

[Luet]

I think that happens to me with Honey Smacks too. It also happens with Cheerios. And coffee. I guess my pee is suggestible.

The other theory, of course, is that my super sniffer just allows me to smell things in my pee that other people wouldn't notice.

[neo-dragon]

I would have thought that sweet smelling pee suggested diabetes.

You know how doctors used to test for that, right?

[Luet]

Taste people's pee, right?

And mine does not smell sweet at all, just like actual cereal. Especially the cheerios.

[neo-dragon]

Yup. They tasted it.

Which reminds me of when I had my students do a urinalysis lab without telling them that the urine was artificial.

Well, actually, I did tell them that I made it, but was somewhat vague on how.

[Mich]

Well, actually, I did tell them that I made it, but was somewhat vague on how.

HA!

[Gravity Defier]

My dog has some seriously funky butt issues right now. I noticed her sitting strangely and went to investigate, with caution, and it looks infected or something. It's all swollen and red and puffy and I surprisingly didn't gag or throw up seeing it. I am worried but not terribly grossed out; now that is love.

[VelvetElvis]

Maybe she has anal gland issues?

[Gravity Defier]

Yeah, my only other guess is she got stung or bit but that seems too...I don't know, complicated. Occam's Razor and all that jazz.

[powerfulcheese04]

Time for puppy to go to the vet!

[Gravity Defier]

Definitely. I'm not a fan of doctor types for me but for her? Better to be safe than sorry.

[neo-dragon]

I like how your dogs bring out your maternal side.

[steph]

Being pregnant with a cough creates a unique and embarrassing problem. I cannot prevent myself from peeing every time I have to cough. I hate holding my cough until I can make it to the bathroom.

[elfprince13]

Is this a common problem? I'd never heard of such a thing until now.

[Luet]

I don't think late term incontinence is UNcommon...but what do I know?