Turns Out

[handful_ofdust]

...the thing with my boobs? Is a yeast infection. On the skin under my boobs. Embarassing, grotesque--take your pick. At least there's a fairly easy cure: Monistat, with some lovely extra accountrements.

The one good part of this is that when Dr Gora saw me hiking up these hideous mounds of useless flesh, he said (unprompted): "Gemma, have you ever thought of a breast reduction?"

Only 5,000 times a day since I was ten and a half, doc.

I go back for a consultation and a recommendation next week; apparently, the Ontario government will cover it as long as it's not cosmetic, and this wouldn't be. When it wrecks your back, puts extra strain on your degenerated disc and wrecks your quality of life, that ain't just wanting to go down a few sizes and not spend so damn much on bras (which in turn give you bulbous blackheads, need padded straps, make grooves you can stick your thumbnail in and give you fucking yeast infections).

Still plotting heavily on A Book of Tongues, which truly is becoming a wonderfully strange object. Some of the twists: Being mistaken for a saint because you don't rot after death, being pursued by an Aztec goddess wearing borrowed skin, a long trip through the Petrified Forest, gunfighting using spells instead of bullets. Also: Much doomy, because-you're-here gay sex (probably a given); zombie dinosaurs (probably not).

Comments

[blixie.livejournal.com]

Gemma I pulled the trigger last year, it is totally worth it, of course I'm still a fucking 38D, but everything from working out, to merely bending over, to finding cute clothes is just BETTER and easier.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. 38I over here, as of my last fitting...I had no idea bra-cups went that high, in a 38 or otherwise.

[sovay]

I go back for a consultation and a recommendation next week; apparently, the Ontario government will cover it as long as it's not cosmetic, and this wouldn't be.

Best of luck.

Being mistaken for a saint because you don't rot after death, being pursued by an Aztec goddess wearing borrowed skin, a long trip through the Petrified Forest

Prrrrrrrrrr.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yes! I even finally figured out who she should be: Ixchel, the Lady of Ropes (by way of Michtantechuatl and Coyotlaxqhui, plus a little bit of Xipe Totec). Which I think works, because let's face it, it's an almost-dead cosmology in which everybody's starting to sort of blend together into archetype soup; I'm also going to work from my theory that most Mezo-American gods began as sacrificial victims themselves, since that was the whole received philosophy behind why you should be willing to let yourself be sacrified in the first place.

[sovay]

Yes! I even finally figured out who she should be: Ixchel, the Lady of Ropes (by way of Michtantechuatl and Coyotlaxqhui, plus a little bit of Xipe Totec).

Is this a novel? It is going to rock so hard.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's a novel, all right. And it really is.;)

CZP

[kelpqueen.livejournal.com]

This might be a novel proposal you might want to submit to ChiZine Publications. I know we're already looking at one, but an outline and a few sample chapters of this is something I'd like to see!

Re: CZP

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

You'd be the first place I'd show A Book of Tongues to, definitely. It's actually whacky enough to remind me of stuff like Filaria et al.;)

[baggyeyes]

Being mistaken for a saint because you don't rot after death, being pursued by an Aztec goddess wearing borrowed skin, a long trip through the Petrified Forest, gunfighting using spells instead of bullets. Also: Much doomy, because-you're-here gay sex (probably a given); zombie dinosaurs (probably not).

Art thou CBC listener? (I ask because of the saint part)

Agh, I want to read this.


As for the first part - Yeast? The human form is such a complex place.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Actually, no--that was an idea Steve threw in. Why, was there something about saintly lack-of-rot on CBC recently?

And I want to write it! I feel like a dummy for not making this leap some time back. My main struggle is to make sure that the characters really are different (enough for jazz, anyhow), but I think I'm finally starting to get a handle on not-Charlie. Not-Jackson was a bit easier, if only because of yet another twist.;)

As for the yeast...man, who friggin' knows. I just don't get it at all.

[baggyeyes]

The saintly lack-of-rot on CBC was about a girl - student in a Residential school, actually. I believe the school was/is in B.C. The story was on The Current. Unfortunately I forget her name, but she died young, and was buried on the grounds of the school. Then they had to move her grave five years later. The coffin was rotted and fell away, but they said, she looked as though she had been buried the day after she died.


Edited because of the ol' Eats, shoots, leaves thing.

boobs & stuff

[kelpqueen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear ya on the boobs thing. I'm a 42DD or 42G/H depending on the bra. Good times, though hubby loves 'em. : )

I know a woman who was thinking of having her boobs reduced but then couldn't face it when she found out that they actually remove your nipples and put them aside in a little cup while they're reducing yer tits. Ew! Ew, ew, ew! I just can't get over the oog factor there. And maybe I shouldn't have mentioned this?

But in any case, I think this is a good idea--you'll have less back problems and be able to sleep SO much better.

Re: boobs & stuff

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Actually, I heard from a chick who'd had a reduction within the last five years that they don't detach the nipples anymore. They pare the nipple and the nerves behind it down to a sort of stem or post instead, then cut away the extra skin at the bottom of the boob, reposition what's left, create a new nipple-hole and feed the tip of the stem back through, with the rest of it sort of coiled up inside the fat-bed of the "new" boob. With this methodology, you only lose about 10% sensitivity, too.

[sgiron.livejournal.com]

I was leaning heavily towards a breast reduction until I met Derek who seems to think THEY AREN'T BIG ENOUGH.

MEN!!!

I have yet to meet someone who had it done who regrets it. And I've met many.

That's great that they don't take the nipples off anymore too.

You go girl!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Your male friend will grow on like yeasts.

>; )

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

There's way too much use of the word "yeast" these days, is all I'm sayin'.