You know that feeling you get the morning after a beating?
You know, the kind of beating that you get in a bar after standing on a barstool and call everyone in the bar a cousin fucking booger eating union liberal obama voter? You know, the beating where you push a handful of fuckers into the women’s crapper and then kick the doorknob off it so they’re stuck in there? And when they come out they take turns holding you and beating you with the pieces of the door? The one where the cops show up and you’re on the ground bleeding while six big fuckers stand and kick you, and the cop shoots one of them and takes them all to lockup and calls an ambulance for you, even though you instigated the whole shebang? Where the hospital sews you up and sends you home with a half dozen icebags ace-bandaged to various parts of your body? The morning after THAT beating?
yeah. When I was 18, or 25, or even 40, I could wake up the morning after that beating, and smile, drooling a little blood, and groan, and go about my day. And in two, three days I was fine again.
For the last two months I’ve woken up feeling like the day after that beating every fucking day. And it ain’t got any better. Leading me to ask, WTF? So I had a bucketload of blood tests friday morning, hopefully I’m just an old fuck getting older, and I just have to accustom myself to the new pain levels.
I am a bit surprised they left me any blood, the number of vials of the shit they took.
And I pissed all over myself before I realized the instructions they gave me for providing a “Clean” sample were the “female” ones. I couldn’t figure out why they wanted me to wipe first.
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Damn, for a sore old poop, that last line was funny!
We know this beating very well. I’ll be interested to find out what the blood tests come up with.
Given your surgery, I’d guess it’s anemia and vitamin deficiency.
I know when I restrict my intake severely, I get the same problem.
Dick, I figured you’d get this like no other. I’ve seen some of your scars. No, not the ones on your body. (Well, except the toe. How IS the toe?)
Actually, I’m very careful about the anemia and vitamin deficiency. I take a multivitamin specific to that purpose- I could damned near live off the vitamin, nutritionally. That’s not to say I don’t have nutrition issues, but it’s not the first thing on my dr’s mind. he thinks- or suspects, I should say- it might be some side effect of the cortizone injections I’ve had.
Hopefully, it’s just “gettin’ old” -ness. The doctors will have their guesses once the tests return. Here’s hoping it’s just the crappy weather. Did you feel like this before going to Africa? Does the doctor know you went overseas? Just wondering out loud.
Not before africa, no. Is it possible I brought something back? maybe. I’m just having everything checked out.
The toes are all fine. The foot bone connecting the second toe still screams in pain. But what the fuck. I’ll live.
And yeah, the first thing I considered about your deal was the band. Just don’t know enough about to make a worthwhile comment.
Think about the Africa angle, I have a friend that came home from Mexico and went about fine for over a month then got sick( just felt bad and fevers that would just pop up and go away just as quick), they finally found some weird bug in his gut and after some specialized antibiotics he is well.
Yeah, it isn’t like I’m dying, just not at 100%
“Third” the African angle. There is a lot of weird shit (figuratively and literally) roaming around outside the US of A. Other then that, I not only haven’t played a doctor on TV, I never stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. So I will close with a “hope the blood work comes out fine, and as you have noted, it is nothing more then time marching on.”
So are you 100% dieing or just not at 100%?
I vote for the africa bug. My uncle has something in his gut he picked up in Viet Nam and it just flared up a year ago when he has some surgery in the intestinal area. Dam near killed him, but he is one tough old chief.
Good luck with this Africa bugger, blood test will probably find it.
Some times you have to see a specialists in tropical diseases and parasites.
While you are waiting for test results double up on the tonic in your gin. Malaria is one of the most common African gifts.