So. There I was, minding my own business, prepping to go walkabout in Latin America. Some small problems popping up, but nothing really drastic. Then my old infection came back.
No! Not that kind of infection! I was in an accident on my bike about two and a half years ago, and gouged up my ankle on the sprocket's big ring. I was about thirty miles down the road, and, by the time i got home, I'd forgotten about the cuts and scrapes. A few days later my leg swelled up like a Johnsonville Brat on a hot grill, and my brain started cooking off. A friend noticed (I didn't. I was hallucinating), and dragged me off to Denver General. Saved my life.
The docs straightened everything out, and I went home. About nine months later it came back with a vengeance. I wound up at St. Joseph's Hospital, and the docs got it under control, but they couldn't kill it. Kept going to stronger and stronger antibiotics, but nothing seemed to work. Finally sent me to an infectious disease specialist down in southeast Aurora (about thirty-plus very hilly miles round trip on my Cannondale). I guess it was pretty serious.
Anyway, I had to get a line inserted in the large vein in my upper arm which ran down to my heart, because the antibiotics they were giving me now were so strong that, if they'd run it into the standard place at the inside of my elbow, the stuff would have eaten my vein up. I had to do this every twelve hours, so I got to hang a bag at home every night. Did this for five weeks (lost over twenty pounds--it was July-August of last year. That part felt great!), and the doc cut me loose.
It came back about three months ago, but not as bad. I caught it right away, and it's almost gone. But I didn't want to be walking around in the Tropics with that kind of thing, so that's why I'm still in Denver instead of where I should be. I want to be completely healed this time. Well, shit happens...
About a month ago, I got a chance to get together with a super-great lady whom I admire and respect: Kung Fu Girl--Susan Fujii--of Kung Fu Finance.com. She's made it her mission in life to help people learn the real way to invest and make money. She has gathered a fairly large following to her, and there aren't very many whiners. Anyway, I took the opportunity to present her with a hand-written recipe on velum for orange-nut bread with a dedication. This wasn't just any recipe; this was developed and tweaked by ME. Sometime in the future I'll publish this--but not now...
Right now I have to go try to sell the last of my DVDs. Yeah, we know how THAT's going to work out...
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