Eat lots of fibre and drink lots of water, and make friends with senna! Morphine will stop your pipes up nicely if you're not careful.

Clod I hope you mend soon. You should make a video for us of your thoughts and observations just after your hit of morphine kicks in. I remember the inch was hilarious when he got some M for his broken leg.

And as for what V said, yeah, you don't have to sue the clinic. That's why god invented lawyers. Ask around for a great PI lawyer. They do all the work and you get 2/3 of the judgement. Mini-van? Hell, how about no more mortgage or a couple of solid college funds? Take this shit seriously and create a paper trail.

Wow, Clod, that's scary. I'm glad it was finally diagnosed properly. I hope you get better soon.

They're 99% sure that it's viral now, maybe even West Nile, but caution dictates that I stay on my antibiotic regimen and watch the culture at least until tomorrow to be certain. Beyond that, I'm not infectious unless I'm swapping blood, and I can go home as soon as the pain can be controlled with something less than IV drugs. The infectious disease doctor said she would expect Thursday at the earliest, but you never know, I might pull it off by Wednesday.

But Thursday would mean another day of rest for your body and soul. ;)

is that the overachiever in you talking, or the overdeveloped immune system turning the corner on this assault with the help from the IV cavalry?

it's no matter, what I really want to say is stay in the hospital as long as it takes for you to be well, even if it's boring/irritating/keeping you from your life of leisure on the outside. Please.

Rest for my body, yes; soul, not so much. My kids basically haven't seen me in four days, and they can't come visit here because the little one is already upset enough knowing that I'm ill, seeing me in a hospital and then having to leave me here would make it much worse for her. Meanwhile Mr. Clod is doing his best caring for four kids by himself while also working from home because he already took all of last week off, but it's not what he's used to and he's already given them the wrong meds a couple of times. Obviously if I can't do it, I can't do it. But if I can do it, I need to be doing it as soon as possible.

Um. Holy Crap!

the wrong meds?

I have no beef with Mr Clodfobble, but wtf? You

(nevermind. just nevermind.)

Please get well.

It's not his fault. The kids take around a dozen meds each, with only two overlapping between them. I have all that information in my head. Which kind of fish oil belongs to which kid? Why does this kid get 5000 IU of vitamin D per day, but the other one only gets 2000? One med is given to Child A only on Friday mornings, while another is given to Child B only on days 15-21 of each month. Another med used to be taken by both of them for years, but recent lab results allowed us to take one kid off... I actually keep a spreadsheet on my laptop that I try to keep updated, you know, in case I get hit by a bus or something, but it was about a month out of date. He knows all the important prescriptions, no major mistakes have ever been made.

This is what was in my head after the word "you" in my post.

I have dealt with complicated medicine schedules, I know it can be hard to follow, a moving target. And of all the parents whose (mis)behavior I judge out loud, you and he are not on that list, not members of that universe.

I stand by my first plea, get well soon.

Aye, will do. The nurse let me try stepping down to the oral pain meds, and so far they're holding up quite well. A little pressure behind my eyes still, but on the other hand I'm neither itchy nor dizzy like I am on the morphine. I think tomorrow morning's looking good.

Get better soon, Clod. Best wishes.

Itchy means they gave you too much or too often, you want to be just on this side of itchy.

Oh my. Please take care of YOU Clod. You cannot care for anyone else without...