#in the hospital with the flu

[inkskinned]

we heard that you were very disappointed in us both as a generation and specifically as a generation of women (emphasis yours), how we had let ourselves go and now we were slutty and ill-tempered and holding onto notions of feminism like "having a savings account" and "equality."

we were very sorry about it, we didn't realize. it is very hard for you, in your life, because your entire definition was centered around the word providing, and that's a really vague and undulating word. it is hard to be a provider. for your purposes, the word provider here can be defined as "having a job", although it sometimes also extends to "doing yard work", "grilling on occasion," and "knowing basic car anatomy."

we had to do some reading but we divided it out. do not worry. high-value women will fill in the rest of the gaps of your life - all those silly feminine things like doing the dishes. we didn't realize we had asked too much when we asked you to pick up after yourself. we did not realize you were rendered small and scared and crying about the possibility of doing the laundry. here is a joke to lighten the sentiment: a man that listens when you talk to him.

we heard about how we had fallen from glory and it sickened us and made us very, very sad. lindsey had to cut all her hair off and tara threw up. we lit one million candles and we are going to have a vigil about it tonight. all of the people in this world that you do not approve of are going to be there and we will all be in mourning colors because we have lost your respect which is of course the only thing that any of us were looking for.

we searched around our bedrooms and our closets and for some of us it took a while but we all found the pricetag that we were originally born with, the one that gave our listing offer, the one that smells like rot and pine needles. we were horrified because many of us had taken deductions and hadn't realized it. i had scraped my knees and decided to be a lesbian so they had to take my voicebox out so i could never call home again. janice had been with too many people overall so we had to put her into the big squisher that will hopefully collapse her walls so that when you're with her, you'll feel so big and powerful. it will be like you're conquering something instead of being close with someone.

we are all going to the funeral of feminism and we will tear at our bodies and fall over ourselves. we will invite you onstage for a live recording of your podcast about the occasional minor inconvenience of self-reflection. you will talk about how we have targeted you and made you feel the sweat slick down your back, and we will teach you basic self-defense out of solidarity.

do not worry, we are seeing to all the outliers. taylor asked to be taken seriously so we have shipped her off to prison. laura asked you to accept her femininity regardless of her presentation. you will be happy to hear all women are now and forever going to have to be small and thin and pretty and white and ablebodied and quiet and unassuming and ladylike, which is different than how society has previously told us to act.

i am going to have to shave off my jawline, which is a little masculine, and they are going to have to reshape my hands, which are very square and thick - all the work i've done with them has made their veins stand out, so we're just going to have to exsanguinate me. i am horrified to have been out in public like this.

we are going to sit around the campfire and we will talk about being weird little girls that made potions in pink teacups. we will talk about the first time we made a difference. we will talk about the private lives of crickets, and then, at the stroke of three in the morning (the witching hour, obviously) - we will all promptly shut up.

and this will be your beautiful world. this silence that spans every corner of every street and every zoom meeting and every alley. i do not think you'll notice at first - it will be the same as every television show and movie and book. we will all just simply sit there in our doll dresses and smile blithely at your advances and none of us will do you the dishonor of answering and none of us will appear to be in distress and none of us will nag you or make a fuss or get hysterical about it. it will just be quiet, and you will say finally, some peace for once! and we will smell of smoke and our teeth will be white and the next day will come.

tonight we are going to bury the last little bits of our humanity. you are not invited. it is going to be ugly.

[amphibianaday]

day 1439

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Quebec's emergency rooms are once again surging over capacity. As the province gets ready to usher in the new year, many Quebecers are coming down with respiratory viruses and heading to the hospital. The numbers have been steadily climbing above 100 per cent every day since Dec. 27, following a four-day period when average occupancy rates dropped below 100 per cent for the first time since Nov. 12. As of Sunday morning, the average stretcher occupancy rate in Montreal was 125 per cent, according to Index Santé. The Royal Victoria Hospital was at 221 per cent, the Montreal General Hospital at 184 per cent and Lasalle Hospital at 180 per cent.

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[pushing500]

Candlelight and Barghest are coping with their flu misadventures by discussing catastrophic disasters, and Kaz is just shouting across the hospital at Zonovo about weaponry.

Wookshys is making friends with Kawoo's dad, Brines, by the river (there's a bathing spot set up on the other side of the bridge from the fishing spot). I guess Brines must have missed the memo that we don't like Wookshys in this colony.

I'm grateful for the animals' help around my colony, I'm just saying I don't know if the murder-blade-dog-monster is a good candidate for carrying the baby around, is all.

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[vyorei]

From the last hour, it's unusually quiet right now

[ivysos2001]

The way that flu season is such an important episode for Leslie and Ben with them really learning to trust each other

Like Leslie is so used to her coworkers halfassing everything and having to do everything herself to make sure it gets done and now suddenly Ben’s here proving himself by actually caring about this project and giving his all in working on it with her. He really earns her trust and she gives it to him in this episode and it’s so important for them

And obviously Ben being absolutely floored by Leslie’s flu-ridden speech gets me every time like not only does he learn in that moment to never doubt her capabilities- this man falls SO HARD

This is the episode where they both find a partner in crime in each other and I love it sm

[chicago-geniza]

Once again I truly did not expect Asthma to be the defining chronic health condition of my adult life but I really do be getting Every Single Respiratory Infection In Chicago even with Xolair, two inhalers, a nebulizer, mast cell stabilizers, allergy shots, COVID nasal spray, and never leaving the house sans kn95 mask. My lungs suck sooo bad

[ramblesanddragons]

Is it sad that my husband can't even have a diabetes diagnoses for 24 hours without something else going sideways?

[audino]

man i really don’t feel well. i’m aching all over and feel shaky and weak and queasy

[axiolotl]

crazy how every single time one of my coworkers goes on a vacation, they end up sick for 1-2 weeks afterwards. consistently. its almost like....i don't know....... there's still a highly contagious airborne disease still around?? 🤨🤨🤨 how weird!

[shion-yu]

Whumptober 2023 - Shion's Masterlist

Shion's RP ad

Not necessarily all "canon"

Day 1 - Sick (Cliff). A snippet from when Cliff first got sick and some backstory for his parents. (I don't love this one. Start somewhere else lol.)

Day 2 - Overworked/Exhausted (Shu). Shumei doesn't know when to take a break. Pre-Julian.

Day 3 - Isolation (Shu). It's lonely to fall apart.

Day 4 - Lying (Shu). Shu keeps getting sick, but Julian doesn't seem to mind.

Day 5 - Kidnapping (Rey). Rey backstory.

Day 6 - Forced Feeding (Rey). Rey can't refuse food for much longer; Clerval takes matters into his own hands.

Day 7 - Flatline (Cliff, part 2/3). It gets more than Elliot can handle at home (part 2).

Day 8 - Seizure (Shu). Julian was aware that he may have gone too far this time.

Day 9 - Interrogation (Rey). When you get kidnapped this often, you have to get a bit of fun out of it.

Day 10 - Scarring (Rey). Rey’s body looked like a battlefield where neither side had possibly won.

Day 11 - Fainting (Cliff). Elliot never minded driving Cliff everywhere.

Day 12 - Sacrifice (Rey). If they were going to escape, they couldn't wait long.

Day 13 - Paranoia (Rey). “Then why have you poisoned my tea?”

Day 14 - Bleeding Through the Bandage/Field Medicine/No Anesthesia (Rey). Rey can’t heal himself magically, but he knows how to use a needle and thread...

Day 15 - Experimentation (Rey). Rey's powers could only do so much.

Day 16 - Hospital (Cliff, part 2/2). Elliot would stay until Cliff woke up. (Part 2 to Blood Loss).

Day 17 - "You Look a Little Pale" (Shu). Love at first flu sight.

Day 18 - Fever (Cliff, part 1/3). It gets more than Elliot can handle at home.

Day 19 - "Why Wasn't I Enough?" (Al). If he could go back in time and change it all, would he?

Day 20 - Bullied (Cliff). It's Elliot's fault that his stomach hurt so much.

Day 21 - Blood Loss (Cliff, part 1/2). When Elliot goes back to collect his things after the breakup, he doesn't expect to walk into that.

Day 22 - Punishment (Cliff). “Would it make you feel better if you hit me?”

Day 23 - Begging (Al). Promise me you won't ever do this again.

Day 24 - Too Exhausted to Keep Running (Rey). If he could have run forever, he would have.

Day 25 - Nightmares/Flashback (Rey). Rey's not the same when he comes home.

Day 26 - Magical Exhaustion (Rey). Rey hadn't used his powers to heal anyone since back then.

Day 27 - Hypnosis (Rey). Sometimes it's better to forget.

Day 28 - Oxygen Deprivation (Al). Can't breathe.

Day 29 - "The Easy Way or the Hard Way (Rey). Rey gets kidnapped. Felix gets mad, mostly at Rey.

Day 30 - Coma (Cliff, part 3/3). It gets more than Elliot can handle at home (part 3).

Day 31 - Headaches/Crying (Al). Headaches and CF don’t mix very well, but having a loving boyfriend helps.

AI-Less Whumptober's Prompt List: https://www.tumblr.com/ailesswhumptober/725663795951878144/prompts-for-ai-less-whumptober-2023?source=share

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Legend sighed as he rolled up his sleeve after sitting down beside Warriors. “Charge said you can give flu shots, so I need you to do mine.”

“Cutting it a little close, aren’t you?” Wars asked as he stood to grab supplies. “Due date is like three days from now.”

“Yeah, that’s why I’m sitting here,” Legend said emphatically, rolling his eyes.

Sky smirked and leaned on the desk. “Do you want me to hold your hand?”

Legend snorted. “Yeah, sure, with Wars doing it he’ll probably miss and hit the joint and I’ll lose my whole arm or something.”

“Sounds like you’re putting a lot of faith in me,” Warriors called from the medication room.

”He says you’re the best nurse he’s ever seen,” Sky called back helpfully.

Legend spluttered, “Sky—I SAID YOU SUCK, WARS!”

“All I hear is your praise and accolades.”

“Good grief I hate you,” Legend groaned as his friend returned with the supplies in hand.

Sky chuckled as Warriors cleansed the site on the travel nurse’s arm with an alcohol swab.

“All right, little poke,” Wars warned before inserting the needle.

Legend trilled his lips in defiance. He opened his mouth as if to say he wasn’t bothered, but then Warriors started pushing the fluid into his muscle and his face twisted. “Please, that’s nothi—YEOUCH!”

Sky busted out laughing. Then he reached out to his friend. “You sure you don’t want that hand to hold now?”

“Shut up!”

[fujianvenator]

i dont talk abt being a dengue survivor enough even tho its very funny. did you guys know when my lolo (god rest his funny ass soul) found out i got hospitalized for dengue he said. and i quote. "the cure for that is to stop using the computer so much" like the mosquito wasnt even part of the equation anymore

[arctic-hands]

You: A patient sometimes if at all

Them: A chronic patient

Me: ✨ Forever Patient ✨

[bunnyb34r]

Always funny to me when my coworkers notice how much of a germaphobe I am when they see me wipe down my cart in the morning. I dont just wipe the handle, I wipe the top of the sides and the top part of the baby seat, places where people grab other than the handle. Then I use hand sanitizer bc by that point I've touched: the cart, the scanner locker screen and locker, my scanner (also wipe that shit down, yuck), my lock, and the spray bottle. So yucky places.

I mean hey maybe I'm not giving my immune system that boost of exposure, but I'm also not giving it covid, norovirus, or influenza from touching the cart and scanner so 🤷‍♀️

[maraeffect]

the blue of the sky is so fucking beautiful today for some reason.... i'm looking at it and just feeling so peaceful and happy...makes me wanna paint