Stupid RSV.

I spent the last 6 weeks helping babies that can't breath, babies that cough and babies that sneeze. It was awesome. I've since moved on to working with sex offenders, perverts and peepers, and I miss the babies.

The babies gave me a lasting souvenir though -- the respiratory syncytial virus, RSV. I'm coughing, it hurts when I breath in, and my gums are itchy. RSV is just a cold for grownups, but for little ones it makes them so snotty that they can't clear their airways and they needed to be hospitalized, sucked out, and put on oxygen.

I'm much less of a baby than those babies, since all I did was stay home from my psych rotation at the Center for Sexual Health. Since I've been home today I made a cube out of magnets. I watched 3 episodes of the office, took a man bath, drank some tea, ate mad amounts of generic triscuits, and found out that I'm not the only one on the internet who gets itchy gums with colds.

I also found that there is no medical literature supporting this. The literature thinks that I have oral cancer -- but my whole life, my gums itch whenever I'm getting a cold. It's one of those things I can't wait to tell children and grandchildren -- itching gums, sickness comes.

... on ur face.