yep. thought it was blood clot, but it looks to be some nasty infection thatt blew my leg up. sheesh...

Get better soon, dude. And day...um!

Good luck, Rich. Hope things improve quickly.

Feel better, Rich.

Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.

What frail things we are. How little it takes to strike us down and lay us low.


" There was a sky that was always gray.

There was a place that was always far away.

There was a being who was always sad.

Sitting on his dark-cushioned, modest throne in his low, rambling castle in the heart of the Shadowland, Death shook his pale head and pommeled a little his opalescent temples and slightly pursed his lips, which were the color of violet grapes with the silvery bloom still on, above his slender figure armored in chain mail and his black belt, studded with silver skulls tarnished almost as black, from which hung his naked, irresistible sword.

He was a relatively minor death, only the Death of the World of Nehwon, but he had his problems. Tenscore flickering or flaring human lives to have their wicks pinched in the next twenty heartbeats. And although the heartbeats of Death resound like a leaden bell far underground and each has a little of eternity in it, yet they do finally pass. Only nineteen left now. And the Lords of Necessity, who outrank Death, still to be satisfied.

Let's see, thought Death with a vast coolness that yet had a tiny seething in it, one hundred sixty peasants and savages, twenty nomads, ten warriors, two beggars, a whore, a merchant, a priest, an aristocrat, a craftsman, a king, and two heroes. That would keep his books straight.

Within three heartbeats he had chosen one hundred and ninety-six of the tenscore and unleased their banes upon them: chiefly invisible, poisonous creatures within their flesh which suddenly began to multiply into resistless hordes, here a dark and bulky bloodclot set loose with feather touch to glide through a vein and block a vital portal, there a long-eroded artery wall tunneled through at last; sometimes slippery slime oozing purposefully onto the next footrest of a climber, sometimes an adder told where to wriggle and when to strike, or a spider where to lurk." -- Fritz Leiber, "The Sadness of the Executioner"

http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/ERBA ... 92___1.htm

last dude wad awesome on hede we liked all the same discovery shows. New dude caughs woth eithw a loud "ahhh!" every two mins or so,or "ah no!" either way, sheesh!

id love a decongestant but my bp is too high...grrrrrr! so sitfing here tring to claef my head an just cant...

Dang, d00d, you don't sound healthful right now even in your typing. <summoning demons on all infectious organisms>

Decongestant? Do you have a cold too? Sometimes hot drinks or hot soup help me with a stuffy nose. It's the steam, I think.

Discovery Channel's good, yeah. For some reason I usually wind up watching Animal Planet in the hospital. I'm told Animal Planet is a big favorite in the pen too. Something about the whole idea of running free, I guess.

http://drunkard.com/issues/04_05/0405_i_busted_out.htm

Seriously, get well soon. This is starting to worry me a little.

thanks all. my typing blows as i am using my phone...

ok the missus brought my laptop (yay!) so I can surf the web.

Anyway, moved to a new floor where I can be better monitored because my BP is effing mental. So her I am in my new digs, waiting for dinner, which I bet they screw up being I am on a new floor!

tHE INFECTION IS RESPONDING TO ANTIBIOTICS, BUT i MISS BEING HOME AND MY DOG. tHE WIFE AND KID HAVE BOTH BEEN HERE.

whoops.. Sorry, newish laptop, unfortunatley sized and placed CAPS key

Wanna follow my fun journey? @oldmanconroy on twitter.
Now that I can, I'l check in a little more

Thanks for the well wishes!

Best to you, Rich. Speedy recovery vibes!

I'm glad to hear of the visits and the laptop.

It's good that they're keeping an eye on the blood pressure. That's nothing to screw around with there. I guess you're in the right place.

My blood pressure is ludicrously high, which is kind of strange, as I'm not really overweight so's you'd notice. Must be the beer, I guess.

Anyway, I take two of these little stupid pink pills for it every day. They seem to work, and they're dirt-cheap, cheaper than name brand aspirin. I can only get them by prescription, though. If I couldn't get them, I guess I'd treat myself with hawthorne berry extract pills from the vitamin aisle and a potassium-rich diet (lots of bananas and low-sodium V-8, etc).

You're in my prayers for healing, comfort and encouragement. May you be back to feeling 100% at the soonest!

Thanks everyone! your well wishes and a viewing of "And Now For Something Completely Different" on Crackle.com last night have all helped!

I missed this completely among all the goddamned spam threads...


Wow, Rich. That really blows. Did they tell you what kind of infection it is, and do you have any idea how you might have acquired it?