It’s almost inevitable that as I reach the tail-end of post-operation recovery, I come down with a cold.<\/p>\n
Immune system taking a bit of a kicking, and all that.<\/p>\n
The sneezing and coughing has been painfully stress testing\u00a0the recently glued-together bits of my abdomen.<\/p>\n
The attractive, near-constant flow of snot is just getting on my nerves now.<\/p>\n
I can’t even bloody lie down to sleep without the almost sentient snot monster streaming out of my head and threatening to drown me on my pillow.<\/p>\n
There was deliberately no punctuation in that sentence.<\/p>\n
My internal monologue has mostly been the repeated phrase ‘This cold can fuck off’.<\/p>\n
I think that’s becoming my new mantra.<\/p>\n
Thiscoldcanfuckoff. Thiscoldcanfuckoff. Thiscoldcanfuckoff.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure, as a mantra, it’s doing me any good, but it is an accurate portrayal of my thoughts.<\/p>\n
Ironically, I was starting to feel really good about my post-op recovery and now the cold has made me feel worse.<\/p>\n
And tireder. More tired.<\/p>\n
Yes, that.<\/p>\n
But even though I’m that tired, I’m unable to sleep, for fear that the snotmonster (etc).<\/p>\n
So I come downstairs in the early hours.<\/p>\n
I spend a couple of hours reading the Laws of Cricket, or do some datacentre geekage.<\/p>\n
And drink hot chocolate.<\/p>\n
And cough, quietly, and in what I hope will be the least disruptive way, as far as the application of medical glue goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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