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i got a tetanus booster as part of my physical yesterday. so now i have an unpleasant walnut of pain in my tricep. maybe i'll go poke rusty nails thru my skin to distract myself from the pain. because rusty nails now hold no tetanus menace for me.

at least for a few more years.

i am a woman of rare quality

so, i got a tetanus booster yesterday morning, and this afternoon it hit me hard -- fever, a swollen walnut of unpleasantness at the injection site, chills, the usual "gosh, your immune system is suddenly VERY VERY BUSY" sorts of symptoms. of course, i have no idea how high my fever might be because everything feels REALLY FUCKING COLD. my coworker confirmed that yeah, i was feverish, but of course that's not particularly accurate. i was pretty sure it was down around high-99 to low 100, but there was no way to tell.

i couldn't find my medical thermometer -- i know i have one, but i think i left it somewhere in the house the last time i was very sick last summer. so i went into the kitchen and used the digital cooking thermometer that's part of the timer i have. it's got a thermocouple on the end of a probe you can stick into meat or candy or whatever. so i wipe it down and stick it in my mouth and wait a few minutes and sure enough, i'm at about 100F (i calibrated the thermometer a few months back with boiling water, so it's fairly accurate).

i am RAW LIKE SUSHI and TOO RARE TO EAT.

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we love you hammercock! oh yes we doooooo!

and a big thank you to the lovely and charming ms hammercock for bringing me supplies for my time of bedraggled feverishness.