Hi.

Hi. Hi. Sorry. I'm fine. I was a little bit late because I was having like a coughing attack and just trying to spare you and our listeners. But I've had this annoying situation in my chest for the last week

where I feel like I can't breathe. And this morning Marley told me that there is a tuberculosis

outbreak at our local high school, which like we don't go to the high school or know anyone

that goes there. But now it's that's in my brain. Like, oh, I for sure have tuberculosis.

You, I mean, first of all, which, why does your high school have tuberculosis? That's a really good question. I don't fucking know because I thought that that was something that was either eradicated like in the 1900s or that we had a vaccine for.

And Marley told me he doesn't think that kids get vaccinated for it. It's like a, isn't the TB shot something you have to get for employment sometimes?

Maybe. Or maybe that's just a teacher thing. I don't know. Is tuberculosis the one where people would cough and then they would dramatically pull away their handkerchief and there was blood on it?

Probably.

You know, like what Meg died and little woman?

Actually, I think so.

Actually, I think so.

It's not the one where it was like the bubble boy, though, right?

No. What did he have? I don't know, but I don't think it was tuberculosis. He had like a like tuberculosis isn't like life.

No, it is like all those people died from it. But I meant not lifelong because it takes you out fast enough that you're not going to keep going.

Well, it's been nice knowing you. There's got to be, in this day and age, a cure. One would think, but you know, there's also fucking measles everywhere. So, like, who even knows anymore? I was so scared in high school of mono. Now, in high school, no, because I wasn't engaged with anyone in a way in which mononuclis could be shared. No, I wasn't not a slut because I love sluts. I just, nobody was picking up what I was putting down. If you know what I'm saying. So it wasn't like a deep concern of mine. Got it. I actually got it in middle school. Because you were a slut. You told that story. Remember? You kissed two boys in one day. That's not how I got it though, but it did feel very much like a scarlet letter every time I had to tell someone I had mono. Right. Well, it's a kissing disease. This like chunky seventh grader with braces. They were like, really? You? You got

mono. Okay, girl. No, I got it from, um, uh, from my friend, like a bunch of the girls in my

class got it because we were like sharing food or drinks or something at like a sleepover.

That's so scary. I know. Were you out? Okay, some people have mono and they're out of

school for like a year. I was out of school for I think two weeks, maybe one, maybe one and a half. I don't really remember, but no, it wasn't, it wasn't, no, it wasn't that bad. Okay. Because that's the one too. I was always, like, I knew people, not, nobody in my high school, but I remember in grade school hearing about kids from

classes like ahead of us who got mono in high school and we're out for like months. Oh, same.

No, I know. I definitely had a couple of classmates that were out for maybe a month or more.

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