On the meds... so I 'do' already... and 'don't' as well. But it's Flu type 'A' so it's at least the easy one to kick. And a straight out run of the mill secondary bacteriological ear/sinus infection on top of it. Yay... z-pack. My digestion runneth over with joy.
If it all goes as well as sicknesses normally do for me, I'll be fine by Monday. On the plus side, the absolutely funk enforced bedrest has finally healed up the blown out knee I suffered over thanksgiving. So... a positive? Worst attempt to save money I ever had.*
* The friday afternoon after Thanksgiving the water main for the house ruptured, swamped out the front yard. Took me over a half an hour of digging and chopping tree roots by hand to get to the valve by the street (the tree had collapsed the enclosure, which since I never open the enclosure I never noticed till now). By this time my right knee (which is badish) and my left knee (which is worse) hurt. So I says to myself, "Self, we're already in pain. We can save a whole heap of Holiday Weekend Labor fee and parts markups and just fix this ourself. It's just plumbing, ain't like we ain't done this a hundred times before, and it'll only cost maybe $30 and a few hours work."
Well... I was right, it only cost $20 and that was with me buying a box of nails and a couple of new buckets (which had nothing to do with this repair), however I was forgetting two salient facts.
Fact #1: I don't actually own a real shovel. None of my neighbors own real shovels. The last time I had to do real shoveling (a few months back fixing broken fence posts) I had to borrow a real shovel. So I had to do all that digging... which increased as I went (decided I had to check the entire length for splits), on my knees, with a 2 foot garden spade. And I forgot to buy a real shovel while in the Home Despot.
Fact #2: I am no longer immortal and invulnerable. I am in fact over 45. You would think the searing pain in the left knee would have clue-by-foured its way through the stubborn machismo and said "Hey, whoa, slow down man. It's just money and few days of no showers, it's better than a blown out knee." But no... stubbornness 'won'.
Again.
But hey, 2 days of not really moving too much, just lazin about in bed like a desperately sick guy has finally put my knee almost back to 80% (which is as good as it gets these days).
And it's costing me $650. ($300 in medical, $350 in lost paycheck). Sigh. There goes that Kickstarter I was going to help fund (no seriously, I'm doing okay moneywise. Six hundred clams ain't nothing to sneeze at, but I've got it covered. It was set aside for few KSers, which I've withdrawn from).
Maybe next year I'll get the flu shot. They never seem to help... but then again aside from the flu-like symptoms I suffer from fro a week after it, I also never seem to get the cold those years (not that I get a flu much ever anyway, am a 'cold' guy...).
