Less Than Less Than Zero

So I started reading Less Than Zero over the weekend and it's really good (I've said before that I like stories about assholes). I'm about halfway through. I probably would have finished it but I got some kind of bug.

I wish I could read while I was sick. I've been watching movies and tv shows almost non-stop. What season is Doctor Who supposed to get good?

I've been sicker the last few days than I have been in a few years. I haven't been able to eat the last two days. I feel like my body is allergic to fluids. I ate a few bites of turkey and mashed potatoes today and one bite of enchiladas last night. I just ate a banana. My poop is the color and consistency of yellow gatorade.

Idk when I was last this sick. I had a head cold this fall. I had rough cough in Portland last fall. And before that? I really don't know. I have a really strong immune system. I thank the bout with MRSA I had during my last semester of undergrad for that.

the line marks the infection

the growth of the infection

after surgery/catheter removed

I was in the hospital for seven days, three days surgery/recovery, and the rest of it observation. I had to work on my undergrad research paper and a poetics paper while I had a catheter in my elbow that drained fluids out of the infected area and an antibiotic and morphine drip in my other arm. I often forget how close I was to losing my arm.

Before that I was kind of sickly. I had walking pneumonia the spring before that. I had severe infection in my throat that some cray doctor said could be cancer and needed to be checked out by a specialist. I developed arthritis in my knees one summer.

The arthritis still flares up occasionally. I take an Aleve for that. Other than a regular sex-part checkup, I haven't been to the doctor since I was in the hospital for the MRSA five years ago. I feel pretty good about that.