man i hate doctors

so went to the doctor today after hauling my arse into work, just to have the first two people to lay eyes on me say "go home, you look terrible". haha. thanks ladies.


turns out i have laryngitis and since i put it off for so long it's too late to start anti-viral meds. balls. so i just have to suffer on, dose myself up with fluids and panadol and stay off work until monday.


so now i'm bored


well, not bored so much as i can't remain conscious long enough to get stuck into anything and can't focus hard enough while conscious to make sure i'm not making mistakes. i bought myself a couple of books on my way home from the doctor so hopefully they'll keep me entertained.


what i love most is that, before i've even told the doctor what i'm in for, he's asking me what metal my "things" are made of.

are they stainless steel or silver????

um, stergical steel (thank you polymoph website) or titanium i think, some of them i'm not sure.

take them all out and replace them with silver only, the nickel in stainless steel has started showing up in long term studies to be linked with cancer in pierced individuals.


oh fuck me, cancer? really? BREATHING can give you cancer, and I'm sure as hell not going to stop doing that anytime soon. simply HAVING ORGANS means you can get cancer.


Don't get me wrong, cancer is awful and i don't mean to discount the seriousness of the disease as i've had one family member die due to cancer and one have her breast removed and her uterus taken out in the up coming weeks, but if it was something that was discrimminating and i could control by changing my lifestyle, then i probably would. but cancer will hit you if its going to hit you. besides, if i was going to get cancer from piercings, i would have A gotten it by now or B already triggered the cells with my previous piercing antics so whether i have the metal in now or not would kind of be irrelevant (like people who haven't smoked since they were 20 dying of lung cancer when they're 50).


but not only this, but he apparently has a pacient, a 19 year old girl, who has had the top of her ear FALL OFF because of ear piercings and now has a prosthetic ear. now this, i will admit, sounds like an actual reality. he said she has the upper cartledge of her ear done so many times that she got one that pierced a vein and the top of her ear just... fell... off... not cauliflower ear (which i'd been told about when i'd had to have cartledge piercings removed when my ear was sucking the jewellry into my head), but actually just fell off.


this to me more smacks of either a bad piercer who doesn't know what they're doing (which is why I got to polymorph, you'd think after 10 years they'd be kinda routine with this kind of thing, plus they have turned me down before because the placement i wanted wasn't a good idea, rather then just saying dumb bitch and taking my money) or she's piercing them herself and has no real idea of how to place them other then "that would look bitchin' *stick*" which is a whole different barrel of worry.


i'm not against self-piercing, i've done it myself and understand how it's probably a good way to learn, but fuck, at least talk to people/google/look up pictures before you do it so the rest of us don't continue to get stuck with the stigma of being retards who toy with their health like it means nothing.


all this ranting has given me a headache. i need cuddles :(