I'm Sick 2014-12-09

AmriloJim · Post by **AmriloJim** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:08 am

Shelly makes a house call.

JSStryker · Post by **JSStryker** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:15 am

Shelly obviously Tina is sick repeating that she can't get sick isn't going to make it so.

kingklash · Post by **kingklash** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:26 am

"Ear-ache my eye!"

shadowinthelight · Post by **shadowinthelight** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:31 am

Tina is so sick she gained a southern accent?

Tina wrote:I'm burred in blankets

Ginkage · Post by **Ginkage** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:33 am

I'm suddenly reminded of the ads I heard on the radio this weekend for stroke awareness.

One woman keeps asking the other how they are, then what's wrong, then 'something's not right!', and 'are you sick?'.

Meanwhile the other woman's voice keeps sadly repeating over and over 'I'm having a stroke...' (with the caveat that it's the woman's internal voice since she can't speak)

Time to clue in Shelly: Shit happens.

DilyV · Post by **DilyV** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:40 am

Something has changed drastically in Tina's situation. Time to call in Doctor Phix to diagnose what's going on.

Doctor Phix, Paging Doctor Phix, you're needed at Tina's house, STAT!

My2Cents · Post by **My2Cents** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:53 am

OK, Tina can now get sick. The big question is does she have any antibodies at all? If not she needs every vaccine you can think of quick, and can still expect the next couple of years to be miserable while her body goes through the 'normal childhood diseases'.

Opus the Poet · Post by **Opus the Poet** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:11 am

Like I keep telling people, those aren't Tina 2.0 or 2.1's eyes, perhaps we are seeing the debut of Tina 2.5 or 3.0?

kingklash · Post by **kingklash** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:23 am

DilyV wrote:Something has changed drastically in Tina's situation. Time to call in Doctor Phix to diagnose what's going on.

Doctor Phix, Paging Doctor Phix, you're needed at Tina's house, STAT!

"Doctor Bombay! Doctor Bombay! You're needed here right away!"

Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:30 am

My2Cents wrote:OK, Tina can now get sick. The big question is does she have any antibodies at all? If not she needs every vaccine you can think of quick, and can still expect the next couple of years to be miserable while her body goes through the 'normal childhood diseases'.

I wouldn't think that being (mostly) dead for a few hours, would have wiped out her body's existing immune system? As a (human) child, Tina was probably subjected to the usual set of vaccinations for whatever area she grew up in, and would certainly have been exposed to the common range of childhood diseases. I'd expect her to still have the antibodies and immunities from back then, just as if she hadn't been demonized.

Flu is a different matter, since it mutates so quickly.

kingklash wrote:
DilyV wrote:Something has changed drastically in Tina's situation. Time to call in Doctor Phix to diagnose what's going on.

Doctor Phix, Paging Doctor Phix, you're needed at Tina's house, STAT!
"Doctor Bombay! Doctor Bombay! You're needed here right away!"

"Doctor Howard! Doctor Fine! Doctor Howard!"

AmriloJim · Post by **AmriloJim** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:42 am

You realize the line, "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard." comes from the film Men in Black (1934)?

Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:56 am

AmriloJim wrote:You realize the line, "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard." comes from the film Men in Black (1934)?

Wow!

I've seen that particular Three Stooges short any number of times during my lifetime, and didn't remember the name. Very appropriate!

I still remember the senior doctor / administrator of the hospital urgently telling the Stooges about the severely injured patients, and that "Radium is the only thing that can save them!" How times (and public perceptions) of the miracles of radioactivity have changed over the decades!

oldmanmickey · Post by **oldmanmickey** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:24 am

Get her a big bottle of whiskey, wont make the flu go away but in a hour she wont care

meisdadoo · Post by **meisdadoo** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:57 am

Every time Tina shows up with a dead girl/rats driving the ship issue I keep flashing on

illiad · Post by **illiad** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:46 am

Hey I just thought....

Maybe the demon that keeps the blood supply flowing has gone out for shopping???

zachariah · Post by **zachariah** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:35 am

Has Tina turned Pirate?? After all Shiver her timbers!!!

This is a sign of a very high fever. While the flu does include fever it cycles up and down and can be treated with aspirin. For some reason Tina does not have any to use, or hasn't thought of it. It is also possible this is not the flu. Could this heat be coming from the combination of the demons into a single entity? When things are forced together heat is often a by products of the process.

jwhouk · Post by **jwhouk** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:51 am

oldmanmickey wrote:Get her a big bottle of whiskey, wont make the flu go away but in a hour she wont care

I don't think that'd be a good idea, having drunk demons roaming around in a flu-ridden body...

DilyV · Post by **DilyV** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:28 am

shadowinthelight wrote:Tina is so sick she gained a southern accent?
Tina wrote:I'm burred in blankets

If you've ever been so cold you can't stop shivering you'd know that words slur together pretty badly. I had hypothermia once in the Army. Winter Survival Training... All I remember is waking up and not being able to stop shivering and the First Sergeant forcing me to drink hot coffee (which I can't stand) and hot soup trying to raise my core temperature. They said they found me wandering off talking in tongues and they couldn't understand a word I said. When they got me to the aid station, the docs said my core temperature was 95 degrees which was why I couldn't stop shivering. To this day my normal temperature is 97.4 or so. Drives the docs crazy till I tell them why.

I'd be willing to bet the word Burred might have been intentional... (cold... brrrrrrr... get it?)

Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:44 pm

DilyV wrote:
shadowinthelight wrote:Tina is so sick she gained a southern accent?
Tina wrote:I'm burred in blankets
They said they found me wandering off talking in tongues and they couldn't understand a word I said.

Sounds as if you were lucky... if they hadn't found you before you wandered out of the area you might not have survived.

Hypothermia (like anoxia) is very tricky... we often don't even realize we're impaired.

As to Tina... you could say that Tina is speaking in tongues... or, speaking with an accent. I don't think it's a southern accent, though.

She's probably speaking with a Scottish accent, and she's trilling her R sounds... a typical Scottish burr.

If that's the case, then oldmanmickey's suggestion to give Tina a bottle of whiskey might make sense... as long as it's Scotch.

illiad · Post by **illiad** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:54 pm

and the reason you DONT give freezing people alcohol...
It 'warms you up' by opening your blood vessels, the ones that were constricted to hold the last of your body heat in your core!!

OK when you are inside a warm room or only 5mins away... but deadly when miles from one!

A St Bernard with a barrel is more than just a Hollywood myth.. there is even a trope for it!!

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