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Every now and again, usually during a Mercury retrograde, I have a complete electronic meltdown.   This clearly describes my last few weeks....from the moment that the nursing assistant at the hospital spilled water directly on my iPhone (and no, sorry, the hospital will not cover this) to the moment that my limping computer came to a complete stop due to virus infection.   Infections, infections everywhere I look: my phone (ok well maybe just a good old fashioned drowning), my computer, my leg, my armpit, my buttocks in a multiple places in a major way.

My doctor showed up again after what seemed like a two week hiatus where he was "unreachable".    To me, this revolving doctor thing is not only unpleasant but potentially life-threatening.   After all, you can't just swap out your wife for wife 1,2,3,4,5 or 6.   I mean, you might like wife 3 or 4, but there could just as easily be the murder of wife 1.  We all have our preferences.  So why is it different with doctors?

Long story short: according to Dr. Synder, the three shots of Neutrapren which yielded no results, was not a long enough trial period.   According to Doctor 3, who was on call at the hospital when I was there and Dr. Synder was probably laying around on some beach with his cell phone locked away in his hotel safe,  three shots was enough.

And so, this past Monday,  Dr. Synder and I agreed that I'd try the two week version of the same drug.   A timed-release drug.   Now I am absolutely no fan of allopathic medicine (unless it would work already, darn it) but you gotta admit that this is pretty impressive.   Somehow or another, a little bit of the drug is released into my system every day for two weeks?   I mean I should probably stop writing and visit Wikipedia and tell you how it really works, but quite frankly, I'm not sure I really care for the details (after all, I could have just injected myself with some kind of plastic that slowly lets out the drug, or, well GOD knows really and those of us with overactive imaginations might as well simply NOT THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS BECAUSE IM SUPPOSED TO BE FOCUSED ON HEALING.   

I took the shot.  It would appear that some of these sores all over my body got a bit better after the shot.   Tomorrow I will have a complete blood count (CBC) and we'll find out if the numbers reflect improvement.     In the meantime, let me just correct the record by saying that my fantasy stationary bicycle idea was more of a whimsical pondering induced by hope, boredom and most likely the stuffiness of my afternoon bedroom.  I can't sit down AT ALL or IN ANY WAY due the buttock issues and as one friend kindly pointed out I was perhaps not quite ready for a bicycle seat.   Oh yeah.  I guess there's a point worth noting.