This past weekend....

(Note: Please feel free to laugh or make funny remarks. If I didn't see the humor in it, I wouldn't have posted about it. :)

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Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday. :)

All is well now but I can honestly say this past weekend was one of the most miserable I've spent in a long, long time!

Worse than a toothache.

Worse than a twisted ankle.

Worse than any injury I've ever had!

I didn't want to go into much detail about the location of the boils so I will just say that girls and boys are different ~ and let you figure it out from there.

It definitely affected my mobility.

I couldn't sit down.. and if I tried, it hurt like bloody Jesus to get back up! I had to put my entire weight on my arms and lift my lower body until I could manage a standing-up position.

Then I couldn't walk!

Well, unless I walked like I'd been on a horse for the past two weeks!

I tried everything! Short of calling the Village Shaman, there's not a stone unturned in my various trials to get the darned things to go away!

Finally, I used hot compresses and I'm sure if you visualize, you can imagine what that was like! Twice a day for fifteen minutes! I'd have to manage to get the pack into the microwave, stand for four minutes while it heated up, carry it back to the bedroom where I shut the door for privacy and apply it.

As it would happen, this was a weekend with a full house, including my housemate's girlfriend. (She is the only one with whom I shared the precise details and she fell against the wall laughing. Who can blame her?)

She would forget and want me to come talk to her.

Couldn't do it!

Saturday night, I got not one wink of sleep. If I turned over, shooting pain went through my body, up through the top of my head. I finally bolstered my back with a couple of pillows and spread-eagled across the bed and read a book.

What else could I do?

So.. that was my lovely weekend at Chez Chani.

If any of you wanted to make a wild guess, how many lifetimes of karma do you think I might have worked off?

:)

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Locusts, frogs, pestilence and .....

...boils, those nasty little gifts from Satan himself! (Yeah, I know. That's not part of my religious persuasion but at this point, any port in a storm!)

Anyway, I have a boil the size of a small planet in an unfortunate location. Let's just say that I can't sit down comfortably. I'm in pain. It hurts. I'm tired. Actually, I have some comedic comments to make about the whole thing but can't muster up the energy to type them. I will though. The only saving grace in all of this is that I keep laughing about it.

I won't be posting for a few days until this blasted thing goes away!

Please! Send the rivers of blood somewhere else!

:)

Getting old ain't for sissies!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

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