Subj : Disappearances
To   : All
From : Jim Hanoian
Date : Wed Jan 03 2001 07:45 am

Howdy everybody,

I'd like to apologize for my most recent disappearance.

I've been working two full-time jobs lately, trying to make
some extra cash (which never seems to work out, eh?)  The whole
month of December I worked every day, most of them 12 hours, some
14 hour days.

Anyway, my clock ran out on December 22nd.  My wife took me to 
the hospital with a 104.8 degree temperature.  She tells me I was 
fairly delirious and resisted her efforts.  Luckly, my son was home 
from college and helped out.
 
The doctors got the temp down and released me that night.  I slept
most of the day on the 23rd, and woke up with my leg all red and
swollen from my ankle to my knee, and the temp was back up.  I was 
admitted on December 24th with a diagnosis of cellulitis.  

They pumped me full of antibiotics and pain pills (not enough of 
either) and eventually released me on December 28th.  Since then,
I've watched my leg return to some semblance of its original size.
The redness is gradually receeding, but still shows from my ankle
to my calf.  Lately, I broke out in hives from a reaction to the 
antibiotics, so I had to stop taking the pills, wait for the reaction
subside (watching my leg get worse) before they would start a new
type of antibiotic.

This is the first that I've sat in front of my computer in quite
a while.

So.... here's wishing everybody a Happy New Year.  Hopefully it 
will be better than the last!


.... Jim Hanoian, Augusta, Maine, USA
.... Old age is when you're stiff all over except where it counts.
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