Category: General

Well, in response to my previous post, I’m so happy to know soooo many people would gladly help me figuratively kick the bucket. It’s great to know I can count on you, people.
The test results came in today, and confirmed the suspicions that I do indeed have both mono and tonsillitis (more commonly known as strep throat).
So antibiotics begin, and I hope they do something soon, otherwise I’m going to be extremely unhappy.
Everyone’s been so full of well-wishing and stuff, as well as adding their advice and personal experiences. Thanks, everyone. It may not physically ease my pain, but it’s good to know that a lot of you have been in pain before! Muhahaha!
was nice enough to drop by yesterday at my behest and bring me a sandwich that I was craving. It took me forever to eat the damn thing, as I had to chew so long that my jaw started to hurt, but it tasted great. Aroma’s fried halumi cheese on whole wheat bread. Mmmm. He was also nice enough to wash my dishes, even though the majority of them were ‘s, but thus continues the eternal roommate battle. Thanks, Joe.
Here’s to hoping that tomorrow will bring better feelings.

So my sleeping patterns are all screwed up, and I’m awake at the most odd hours of night, sitting around in pain, trying to keep my mind elsewhere.
It’s no fun and games for this miserable sack o’ bones. Imagine: every time you swallow, you wince so badly that your shoulders scrunch up and the pain is so bad you try to prevent the need to swallow.
Let’s not even talk about sneezing.
Added with the lethargy from mono, I want to sit here and die. Anyone volunteering to assist me on my journey?

So this morning I got up early to get a blood test to confirm the doc’s suspicions on the mono front.
I went to the same place that my doctor is in – a Terem Family Medicine Center. There are a few around the city, and they are quite effective, well placed and well staffed. Got the blood sampled, dropped in at the doc’s where she stared at my throat again, and then prescribed some basic painkillers, nothing heavy, much to my chagrin. I was hoping for something that would put out a horse, but no…
So I returned home, slept a bunch, woke up, then slept some more.
dropped by two minutes ago with some vanilla ice cream, which feels great going down, but doesn’t do any good for my waistline. 🙁

So I’ve been feeling under the weather lately.
After much urging by many parties, I finally went to the doctor today.
I don’t have a regular doctor, but I got recommended to approach a Terem Medical center, which I did.
From the initial examination, the doc is pretty sure that I have acute tonsillitis, which was something different than what I thought it was.
The kicker is that beyond that, the main problem I seem to have is that I have all the identifiers of mono! I mean, me! Mono! WTF!!
Now, reading up on this, it seems that it can be spread through coughing, and I’ve been doing a lot of that lately. I hope I didn’t start what will be know for years to come: “The Mono Epedemic of ’05”
I also kind of want to know where I got it from, just so that I can have someone to hunt down and kill when I feel up to it.

So this week will be spent lazing around and trying to keep from shooting myself. The debilitating fatigue is the worst.
Wish me luck!

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Tell all your friends, and hey, post a link to this on any society board’s forums as “another review of Icon”.

Apparently, I’ve caught what’s been going around – Con-Cold.
Stay away from me.

I haven’t been keeping a day-by-day update, because I’ve been a little busy doing other things, such as spending time with Silvia, shepherding two of Icon’s guests around in the eternal search for good beer.
This is pretty early to be awake, but I’ve got to get going to get an interview in this morning.
Joe and I will have MUCH to say about Icon when we record next.
I’ve also made some good connections, and we’ll see how they pan out over the next few weeks.

Have fun at Icon, that’s what it’s all about!

This is the last post before Icon.
Silvia and I will be heading out there in a couple of hours, and hope to have a blast.
If anyone feels like coming along, please do. We look forward to seeing everyone once again.

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Have you ever visited a fan-related convention in a foreign country, where you didn’t understand the local language as much as you’d like?
Have you ever wondered what everyone else is yelling around you, but couldn’t get past that first garbled word?
Have you ever sat at a table, drinking coffee, wondering how to start a conversation, but couldn’t because you don’t know the local words for, “Hey, what’s that poking out of your ear?”

Well then, regardless of your answers to the questions above, this event is for you!
Yours truly will be sitting (and hopefully speaking) on an English-speaking panel during Icon, alongside Ilan Eshkoli, Raz Greenberg (both of local fandom) and a couple of foreign guests – Roger Nygard and Robert Burnett, and of course, how could I forget, our wonderful panel moderator, !!

It should be one hell of a panel, so check out the details at the link here: http://2005.icon.org.il/event.php/226
and I’m counting on seeing you there!