The weekend that would not die

[pjthompson]

Continuing with the themes of weekend last, yesterday was my semi-annual thyroid checkup out at UCLA. It's completely routine--talk to the doc about symptoms or lack thereof (and there has been a lack thereof for quite some time, thanks very much) and give blood for a blood panel. But the thing is, you never know with UCLA how much things are going to get backed up, either in the medical specialists office or the lab. Sometimes a visit there can take an hour (that happened once, a miracle), sometimes it can take four hours (that's happened enough that it's a real possibility). Generally, it's at least two hours. Then there's the time it takes going to and fro, so for some time now I've taken vacation days when these comes up, my appointments in the afternoon so I can at least sleep in.

Yesterday wasn't bad: only an hour and a half. But I felt like cr*p the whole day, and by evening the full flower of some respiratory thing had blossomed. So I'm at home today basking in the glory of cold remedies. I wish I could take that Cold-Eze stuff because it really, really works--but alas, the zinc kills my stomach. So given a choice of miseries, cold symptoms or bad stomach pain, I'll take the cold.

Besides, I've got to hurry up and get sick so I can get well again by Saturday. That's our Dearly Departed Tour day and I want to be properly energetic to enjoy visiting the sites of famous murders. Being a ghoul takes stamina.

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