Whooping cough

[Roadgeekteen]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.

So, communist?

With that system, Switzerland is a third world country.

[kkt]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.

So, communist?

With that system, Switzerland is a third world country.

No.  Switzerland has no military alliances with the west, but does have close economic and cultural ties.  It had basically no ties to the USSR during the cold war, and still has only a weak relationship with Russia.

[kphoger]

I had to go to the emergency room last night, and I found out I have whooping cough.

Anyone else here ever have this from living in a third world country?

I had whooping cough when I was 6. I think Ohio was considered 2nd world country at the time.

So, communist?

With that system, Switzerland is a third world country.

No.  Switzerland has no military alliances with the west, but does have close economic and cultural ties.  It had basically no ties to the USSR during the cold war, and still has only a weak relationship with Russia.

I disagree.  "Third world" countries were those without an alliance to either NATO (first world) or the Communist bloc (second world).  Switzerland formed neither such alliance, therefore it is a third-world country.

[adventurernumber1]

From what I remember from taking World History, I thought that first-world referred to developed, capitalist countries, second-world referred to developed, communist countries, and third-world referred to all undeveloped and developing countries in the world.

[inkyatari]

Finished my prednisone prescription.  Still coughing.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Whooping cough, otherwise known as Pertussis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis

And the vaccine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis_vaccine

Importantly, outbreaks do occur in the developed world.

And known by me and classmates back at the school as "feline cough". The pun is noticeable only in Spanish, where pertussis is known as tos ferina, and we would change one letter so it became tos felina.

[sparker]

I'm just getting over a 3-week-long cold, with severe coughing as one of the symptoms.  Unfortunately, I'm terribly allergic to most antibiotics (essentially anything ending in -cillin or -mycin), so I slog through it with doxycyclene or sulfa-based medications (which I'd probably forget to take if not for my wonderful nurse GF!), neither of which offer anything like instantaneous relief much less cure.  However, "doxy" generally results, at least in my case, in stomach upset.  It hasn't been a particularly great holiday season -- but it did give me an excuse to avoid this years CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Vegas; my company wasn't exhibiting this year, but I often go anyway just to see old friends in the business -- but frankly the show has sucked the last few years; more & more of the specialty-audio folks are staying away and instead putting on smaller dedicated shows around the country later on in the year.  And my GF doesn't like going to Vegas for trade shows anyway; she'd rather it just be for fun & games (can't really blame her for that!).  Oh well, time for some hot green tea with lemon -- that seems to work as well as any prescription!

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Now I think, I should create a thread titled Severe myoclonic epilepsy of the infancy as a parody of this one . I would have gone with Sideroblastic anemia with marrow cell vacuolization and exocrine pancreatic dysfunction instead, but that is too long for a thread title.