Those of you who don’t like me… well, this is your happy day.
As previously mentioned, I was pretty sick there for a while. And while the illness is largely gone, it seems to have left a little present behind. One of the main symptoms of the illness was a substantial cough… frequent and powerful. It appears that all that coughing somehow or other caused me to damage my left shoulder, sprain, strain, torn ligament, something. *Holy**crap* does it hurt. It’s painful to the point of distraction and torpedoing productivity; it’s hard to type, to scan, to carve, to CAD, to *concentrate.* It hurts just hanging there. It *screams* when I cough. In retrospect I should’ve seen a doctor for it Thursday or Friday, but both days I woke up feeling fine, with the pain creeping up as the day went on.
A few years ago I had something similar that was finally fixed up by the simple expedient of the doctor jamming a needle the size of a railroad spike directly into the shoulder socket and pumping it full of steroids. I suspect that will have to be done again. Joy unbounded.
So if you’ve been waiting for me to do something or other… well, ooops.
At least the air quality has been spectacular. Nothing better for dealing with an illness than air with more hydrocarbons than a gas tank.
A truncated document scanning session ended early not only because my arm wasn’t working right (kinda important for feeding documents into a scanner), but because Banshee had other plans.