It took me four days to find a computer with an internet connection in this hospital. What kind of a place is this anyways? They don't even have Wifi. It's like I'm living in a third-world country! I have my laptop with me, but it does me no good. It sits there and it mocks me, and I wonder about what is happening over here in SC land.
I know when I left here last there were a lot of turmoil and arguments going on. It seems like very little has changed since I've been here last. I can plainly see by the featured posts that things are still ugly, still crazy, still zany. Just try to remember that they're only words, and can only hurt you as much as you let them. On the other side of the same coin, also remember that the words will only delight you as much as you let them.
To give you a brief update, I went to my doctor on Saturday with a severe abdominal pain. Those of you who read my blog know that I've been having gastro-intestinal problems for some time now, and it finally got to the point where I went to go see a doctor. Actually, that's not entirely true. What had happened was, the last time I went out to dinner with my family, my mother was gravely concerned at the fact that I had lost so much weight in the last few weeks, so she asked me to go see a doctor. At first, I was like, "I'm fine, mom. There's nothing wrong with me. Quit pestering me." Then I realized that in order to put my mother's mind at ease, I could go see a hundred doctors. A doctor's visit's no big deal, compared to appeasing my mother, you see(yes, I do try to be a good son once in a while).
So I went to the doctor and she poked my stomach around with her hand while I recoiled in pain. Then, my doctor suggested that I go to the emergency room. When I got to the emergency room, they made me get a CT scan(you have to drink this nasty Barium solution before you go for the scan, too. yuck), and have decided to hold me for observations.
That was five days ago. I'm still at a holding pattern, and they think I might have some awful infection in the area where my small and my large intestines meet. I've had no solid food since Friday night(six days ago), and have been plugged into an IV for this whole time. As a matter of fact, I have a special IV that goes directly into a larger blood vessel in my upper arm, that leads to my chest. I've been on antibiotics and steroids for the last six days and have not been able to have any food what so ever. Not even a drink. I have pictures of roasted chicken drumsticks dancing in my head as I type.
It looks like they're going to keep me here until next Wednesday at least. I already have a full blown case of the cabin fever, so I have no idea how I'm going to last until then, but it's not like I have much of a choice in the matter. I have been really sick and was in a lot of pain, but now that the antibiotics and steroids and stuff has made me feel remarkably better, I have thoughts of escape and solid food in my head.
Please say a prayer for my quick recovery, and please pray that surgery is not necessary. I need all your good thoughts and wishes.
Many thanks to you,
And I miss you all.
I can't wait to come back and start posting regularly again.
Stupid illness....
Grape.
