I should update about my health "crisis," such as it is.
Considering how bacteria-laden public schools can be, I really don't get sick all that often... but I woke up on Wednesday at around one in the morning with an intense, twisting pain in my stomach. It was
unbelievably bad and I didn't get any sleep that night, opting instead to curl up in a ball on the couch and watch reruns Roseanne through squinted eyes.
I didn't go into school on Wednesday. Instead I spent the day vacillating between throwing up, sleeping, and being miserable. My abdomen still hurt and I wasn't able to eat a thing all day. I decided to take another day off and schedule a doctor's appointment on Thursday.
After doing some armchair diagnosis via WebMD (that most venerable of medical scare-mongers) I was worried that I had appendicitis. I don't think I was being paranoid, since all my symptoms seemed to fit appendicitis
before I investigated, but as it turned out, the doctor thought the same thing. I spent most of Thursday in the hospital getting poked and prodded and catscanned to the ultimate conclusion of having a case of mesenteric lymphadenitis... or enflamed lymph nodes in the abdomen.
I would not wish the pain that I had on Wednesday and Thursday on my worst enemy, but by Friday the big problem was less the pain and more that I hadn't eaten in two and a half days! I made a try to go back to work on Friday only to find that I couldn't in any way, shape, or form make it through eight hours of school. I came home and slept all day.
Anyhow, I'm just about back to my normal self, and ready to get back to posting comics, starting tomorrow.
In the meantime, if you want to click over to my website and see the ONE chalkboard drawing I managed to find time for this week.