Blech! So the lab results came back and it turns out that I had a staph infection in my knee. Although it was really painful (and gross when they cut it open to get the nasty stuff out), I guess I should be happy because I've heard some horror stories about staph infections (including death).
Plus, in an odd way, I feel like this makes me a real jiu jitsu player. I don't think I would consider someone a real boxer if they've never had their nose broken, and in a strange way I don't think you've spent enough time on the mats to consider yourself serious about jits until you've caught some kind of nasty skin deasease (or torn an ACL). It's been about 3 weeks now, so I think I will try to go back next week and start to ease my way back into it.
In other news, I think next year I will test out my heating system BEFORE the first really cold day. As one of my summer projects, I changed the regular thermostat for a programmable one and never bothered to test it. When it wouldn't turn on yesterday I assumed the problem lay there ("that's what she said!"), but it turned out to be something completely unrelated. After a trip to home depot to find a voltage tester and a few hours of opening up walls, switchboxes and outlets, I found the problem. The switch for the emergency shut off was bad. So I was able to fix it pretty easily by installing a new switch. It was good that I found it in time, because I was freezing my butt off and I was about an hour away from rigging up a ghetto contraption straight to the furnace using an extension cord and some pliers if I couldn't get it going. There's 4 hours of my life that I won't get back. Grrrrr....which is better than Brrrrrrr...
7 comments:
Bleh, ew. Glad you got it taken care of, though!
Wooo, a real jits player :) Exciting! Hope your return to the mats is delightful :)
Glad that you are okay from that supposedly dangerous infection :) And a nice attitude there to think of everything positively -- I guess you really are a jitsu person now!
Hah! Grrr *is* better than Brrr!
And that staph infection sounds scary; good it's done and dusted.
Are you feeling better? I hope you're okay!
We had a guy get impetigo, an acute contagious staphylococcal or streptococcal skin disease characterized by vesicles, pustules, and yellowish crusts. He got swine flu at the same time and thought it was from that. Needless to say he made a full recovery but I'd rather have would you have then impetigo on my face.
Dude. I recently had a staph infection on my elbow. No fun. I'm glad you got it checked out.
did you have to pack it? That is among the grossest things ever.
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