I haven't posted anything on here in awhile. Truth be told, I'm forcing myself to post right now, but I think the reasons are interesting so let's get to that.
The last thing I wrote, about the Mono album, was written when I wasn't exactly sane. I was sitting in my journalism class with a fever of 102 degrees. One of our assignments is to write a blog with at least five posts. Lucky for me, I already have a blog and can just keep adding to this. So, I'm siting in class trying to figure out how I'm going to remain alive for fifty minutes, and I typed that rambling post about Mono's album. Don't get me wrong, the album is fantastic and I encourage everyone to listen to it.
Here's what I'm getting at. I'm trying to not make this blog about myself, but in thee situations I kinda have to admit why I disappear. This time, it's because I have some horrendous illness that wants to kill me. Six weeks ago (yes 6 weeks) I got sick. Some, 'changing-of-the-seasons' cold. It was a nuisance, but I started to recover in a week. Then it came back. I laughed at my misfortune and waited for the cold to pass. Again, it seemed like things were getting better and I had a few days of fine health. Then i came back again and I started getting pissed. I'm poor so going to the doctor wasn't an option. I sat in a haze of medication until the illness passed. It was getting on a month, but again I recovered.
Then my throat swelled shut and I came down with a fever. The best part of that was the whole thing happened while I was on campus. I went to school feeling kinda funny, but I figured I didn't sleep enough. German goes by and I head to journalism. At this point, I'm barely cognizant. I write that post about Mono, leave class, and pass out in a chair. I went home and spent the better part of a week failing to eat oatmeal and wondering when death would arrive.
The swelling decreased and I had a few days of decent health. I really thought the demon in me had given up. Then my throat swelled up again, but I didn't get a fever. I finally went to a doctor about the whole thing. He said something about tonsillitis from hell.
I'm typing this in the computer lab at school. My throat is still halfway to being swollen shut. I'm on a pill cocktail of antibiotics, corticosteroids, and codeine. In an hour and a half I half a meeting with my journalism professor where he will grade this blog. (Hi, Dr. D). The results of my blood work will come in today. Oddly enough, my doctor said I might have mono. There's some humor in that, but I'm too ill to see it.
So, that's why I've been out of the loop lately. You can tell I'm sick when I use trite phrases like out of the loop. Here's hoping that I won't die in the computer lab.
