Random Nuclear Strikes

I’d like to thank everyone for their get well soon wishes over the past couple days. Things within Casa De Analog are slowly improving and I was able to lay almost horizontally for about an hour yesterday.

I went in for a more extensive set of x-rays yesterday afternoon and will be showing my mug at the physician’s office this morning to have her take a look-see and let me know what she thinks.

Other than that, I’ve just been watching my recently delivered Aeon Flux DVDs and re-watching the Star Wars and Harry Potter series of movies to try and keep the boredom to a minimum. Reading was nearly impossible due to nearly day long double vision from the medication and the endless coughing. Typing was even more frustrating.

I think that I’ll clean all my guns today as I’ve tired of the TV as an entertainment tool and I keep wanting to go to the range, but with more snow advisories in the weather forecast, I just can’t believe that doing so would be to my advantage physically.

Also, as one RNS regular, NordicThug, stated in his email,

Be advised, it will be a good month before your head is screwed on right again. Be got-dam careful doing things like shooting and driving your car.

I have been avoiding leaving the house for any reason besides medical trips, not only because I feel like shit and because the wife has to drive (she drives a car I have to fold myself into), but also because with the medications I’m on, I don’t really think I should be packing. Yeah, I could find cover and draw, but I’m not so sure about hitting an intended target due to the aforementioned double vision.

Anyway, I’ll hopefully be able to get back to work ASAP as I’m sure the tasks there are piling up and I’ll keep everyone posted from here. Thanks again, AK

So I wake up yesterday afternoon and feel like crap. Eh, I go to work anyway. I don’t deal with that many people and the ones I do deal with I can warn to stay away lest they get whatever it was I had.

Work is going along swimmingly until around midnight when I find that I cannot continue to work without blasting the AC in the office.

Now, we were under a snow advisory last night here in Seattle (/sarcasm/ and what a frightful venture that was, let me tell you /sarcasm/) so you can imagine the looks on people’s faces when they walk into my area and it is a right 45 degrees and windy in there!

At around 0530, I get home and attempt to go to sleep only to find that no position past 100% vertical allows me to breath. Crap!

Off to the physician’s office I go to wait as one of those without an appointment. An hour later and I’m being told to breath heavy, suck on this here nebulizer and keep spitting up as much of that crap as you can until we can get you in for a chest x-ray.

X-ray done and pneumonia was the case that they gave me, along with a half a dozen prescriptions. Let’s see: two different types of vapor inhalers, some weird steroid liquid, a large bottle of antibiotics, a weird sort of powder shooter inhaler type thing, and, my personal favorite, liquid vicadin with codine.

I have called my work and given them the bad news that I’ll be home for at least the next three days trying not to drown in my own bodily fluids and to not expect me in until maybe Friday, possibly Monday.

I just wish I could enjoy this new found time off, but this shit hurts! I’ve coughed so much that my kidney panels are sore, not to mention that I can’t get an appetite up to eat anything.

But hey, at least you’ll have me here! And you never know what will happen when all of these prescriptions interact!

In general, I don’t like children, which is why I don’t have any. Sure, some of them are fine little people, but the majority of the little buggers are straight up monsters whose parents treat them as pets.

My house is not “kid proofâ€?. When I heard that my brother-in-law and his family (including 4 kids) were coming out to visit, I spent a week locking stuff down and putting stuff up, and I know these kids and they’re quite well behaved. If I didn’t like them, I’d have left my sharp objects randomly lying about and made the parents pay to clean my carpets afterwards.

Yet it is during the holidays that I am exposed to the children of strangers, because there is no one stranger than my relatives.

And it is always during the holidays that I catch some sort of freakish bug from the ankle biting little Typhoid Marys that will knock me out for close to a week, as it is now.

If I ever wanted to know what it felt like to be a fish out of water, I now know. I can’t sleep because I can’t breath without waking myself up, I didn’t notice that I hadn’t eaten for 18 hours yesterday and all I can do is be thankful I quit smoking at the beginning of this month, otherwise I’d be a real bear to deal with because I think that for me to have a cigarette right now would be to go into total vapor lock.

So if I don’t pop in very frequently over the next couple days, just picture me buried in empty Kleenex boxes and Nyquil bottles. Daivd will be by a couple times int he next couple days, having found blogging material over this weekend.

Craig is still working on the new site, there being an oddity happening when the three years of archives were imported over. I’ve picked a very nice template that he is customizing for RNS use and it should take care of any margin issues we may have had in the past.

So stay safe and, unlike myself, stay healthy.