re: I'm so fricking tired......just tired.

Bro, I was just reading a political blogger explain his recent absence from posting. Be grateful you don't have a golf ball of bacteria growing in your taint. Get out and enjoy the sunshine.

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On April 24 I had come back home from a medical check-up. The immediate issue had been a sudden strong tingle and lameness in my left forearm, a potential sign, my general practitioner (GP) had mused, of an imminent cardiac infarction or stroke. The results of the check-up were, luckily, negative. There was no sign of either being imminent. The tingle must have been a local issue. It has since gone away.

Meanwhile, unrelated, a rice corn sized inclusion under my skin, right between my legs and about two inches in front of my anus, had decided to end its years long hibernation. It suddenly got infected and went berserk. Within a day or two it had developed into a painful hazelnut sized abscess. Not really unusual - these things typical develop, acne like, a channel towards the skin's surface, empty their dirty content and die.

The GP told me to see a specialist to open it up. When I arrived at the clinic, at nine in the morning, I was feverish and the beast had grown to the size of a golf ball. Instead of working its way towards the outside it had decided to channel itself deeper into my body. Two hours after I had arrived the doctors had put me to sleep and had started to cut it out.

What had been planned as an ambulant procedure turned out to necessitate a five day stay.

It was a late save, the doctors later told me. A day longer and the golf ball sized thingy would have spilled its dirty content right into my blood stream. The released bacteria would have wreaked havoc at my heart valves and elsewhere.

After the removal of the abscess the relief from the raging infection was felt immediately. There followed a few boring days with high intravenous doses of several antibiotics. They have killed off (hopefully) the last remnants of the infecting bacteria.

I am back home again - still feeling utterly tired and drained.

There is a new hole between my legs which will take several weeks, and some care, to close itself.

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