Quick Update

For someone with mono, I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm done my course of antibiotics.
Now I'm only taking NSAIDs and vitamins.
NSAIDs to keep my tonsil swelling down.
Hurts quite a bit if I don't.

I may have to deal with some rebound headaches for a bit.
But that's ok, I like eating now.

I'm not sleeping like an excessive amount.
I didn't soak the bed in sweat last night either.
That was nice.

I have been drinking a lot of fluids, and still feeling dehydrated.
Yellow pee and such.
I worried briefly about jaundice, but I think my liver is going to be ok.
The spleen enlargement worries me a bit.
Michelle punched me in the stomach a bit, just playfully, but if I hadn't been ready, I dunno, might have hurt. At least I know to watch for that, so if anything happened, I'd be on my way to the hospital lickity-split.

But like I said, I'm feeling pretty good.
Ate lots today, I like that.
Got to smoke some real marijuana!

Let me explain.
We bought some hash recently. We were told it was good hash, but right hard. We thought, hey, sounds good. Usually bunk hash is pretty soft and sort of smells like play dough. Well, this hash, doesn't get soft. It like snaps apart. Very brittle.

After much effort, we were able to isolate some BT sized chunks, and set about racking some bottle tokes. The taste was alright when smoked this way(better than by pipe), but we found the smoke behaved differently than usual. It seemed to stick to the bottle rather than slide down to the bottom of the bottle.

After a few sessions, a transparent liquid had accumulated at the top of the bottle. It looked almost like honey oil, so we scraped some out, and lit it up, to see how it smelled. It bubbled like oil would, so we figured maybe it's good, but it hardly smelled. I inhaled some of the smoke, and found it to be quite sweet. M'lady remarked that she could smell it as well. The mystery was solved, the hash had been cut with sugar, or some kind of sweetener.

Although, now that I think about it, some chemicals have a sweet smell, if I'm not mistaken. Perhaps I should investigate further before smoking anymore of said hash.

But, I have a little marijuana remaining to smoke in the yeti format. Which I will now proceed to do before going to sleep. Have a good one. See you in the future.

stream of thought

Well, it looks like my ear is clearing up nicely. No more hole big enough to smuggle something in. It's still a little pale and weird looking, but definitely on the mend.

Now, a few days ago, I noticed my tonsils were quite swollen. I thought that I had tonsillitis, as I had had tonsillitis before, and it looks the same as what was going on in my throat. I thought it was weird though, that I would develop an infection while already on antibiotics. But then, I figured, maybe they weren't strong enough, or maybe the drainage from my ear moved to my throat or something. Whatever it was, I knew I had to bring it up at my follow up appointment.

As it turns out, my amateur medical opinion was wrong. The Doc, after several hours in a waiting room, took a look at my throat, and said it looks more like mono or strep throat, and he took a throat swab and some blood tests to confirm. He told me they would call me later that night if there was anything to be concerned with. I asked the hematologist how long the tests take. She told me a half hour to fourty-five minutes. So, when I left the hospital at 9:30pm, I figured, if I don't get a call by midnight(the time the doctor that had seen me was off), then I must be good to go.

No call came, so I figured, I guess the Keflex will take care of it as well.

Unfortunately, that was not the case. The next morning, the doctor called to inform me that I was positive for mono. He told me to expect to be sick for about two weeks, and to avoid contact sports for another 8, as the spleen is often enlarged, and at risk of rupturing for about that long.

My girlfriend is sort of avoiding me a bit, to try and not catch the mono. But I mean, I don't hardly know anyone here, and the only people I've shared smokes and drinks with as of late are her and her friends. So, I'm pretty sure she's got it too. I mean, I don't hope that she gets sick, but I miss making out with her already.

It's been a pretty busy and stressful week all-in-all. We had to scramble to get money for rent, I actually pawned my Wii for a day. That was scary. It was almost my guitar. We still ended up short, but we were able to borrow some money to cover us, until payday, which was the next day.

The girlfriend's parents also came down for a visit. That was kind of nice, as they were able to drive us around, and took us out to lunch, but it was quite stressful for her as well. Mayhap her emotions were a tad exaggerated, but that happens when you're stressed and broke and hungry.

So, what now? We're working lots to try and get all caught up, so that we don't have stressful weeks like this past one. At least, that's what I figure. It's not something we have discussed directly. But nobody likes to worry about money.

Well, I'm going to focus on the task at hand, which is work. May random find you well.
-Marc