Finally

I have finally recovered from being sick! It took more than a week for my esophagus to re-line itself....but I can finally eat and drink like a normal person!! Last night I enjoyed the long awaited Hungry Howies Pizza! Now I just have to work on rebuilding my body after spending a few weeks in bed and on a liquid diet.

Starved

I have had the worst week and a half of bad health in my life!! It all started just two days after I was bragging to my girlfriend about "never getting sick". I usually don't get sick! Once a year I'll get a cold and thats about it.
Well, last Sunday night I came down with a bad fever and was chilling and tired and just wanted to sleep. The next night (last Monday) I ate a bowl of beef vegetable soup...homemade....it was great.....but it was my last decent meal.
I spent about three days in bed....unable to eat.... and vomiting. I became so dehydrated I required multiple visits to the ER for fluids. By Thanksgiving night I felt better except for an intense heartburn feeling.....I mean intense even when drinking water!! I couldn't drink water...it hurt too bad...still couldn't eat...
I went to the ER again and was admitted to the hospital and spent three nights there. Apparently, all of the vomiting on an empty stomach had severely damaged my esophagus. My stomach acid ate away the lining!! So everything burns!!

I was released from the hospital and feel good except for the fact that I still can't eat....the doctors say it will take several days for my esophagus to completely heal.....At least I can now drink water painlessly....but I can't handle any thing else....I'm on a semi-liquid diet.....I'm living on grits, soup, oatmeal and puffed wheat cereal!!! I've lost 10 pounds!! (I'm skinny and don't need to lose weight!!)
I've been craving a Hungry Howie's Pizza!!!! And steaks....food, any type of real food!!!!!Each day that passes I can tell little improvements! Today, for the first time, I was able to eat Ice Cream!!!
Damnitt.....I should not be excited over eating ice cream....I can't wait to get back to normal...I want to eat everything I see!!!

Half-Nekkid in the Hospital

My sister Tish has been hassling me about my HNT debut for weeks now. I just spent several days in the hospital, and I realized that since I was already half-nekkid, it was the perfect opportunity to make it official!

Wanna know what the half-nekkid madness is all about? Read about it here.

Baseball

Baseball is the great American pastime. I love baseball, but I have a few problems. There should be no playoffs!!! The World Series should place the best National League team against the best American League team. And there definitely should not be a wildcard. The Houston Assholes are going to the World Series despite finishing the season 11 games behind the Cardinals. Yes, the Astros did beat the Cardinals in the NLCS.....but should a best of seven series be more important than a 162 game season?? NO!
We have playoffs and wildcards just to make more money. Which I'm sure is needed being that the players all making millions a year. But it takes away from the sport. Baseball is not a sport of quarters. Its a sport of nine (at least nine) long innings repeated 162 times a year. Its a sport of endurance. Whichever team can maintain the best record throughout the season should be the National League champs. In the American League the best team is going to the World Series. The White Sox should win it all this year.
I like the Astros, but I can't cheer for them because I don't think a wildcard team has any right being in the World Series, especially when they finished such a distant second place in their division.

Intention

It was my intention to make a post everyday. If not everyday, at least every other day. So it has been ten days since my last post. I have failed to make my routine posts. How can I ever become a blogging legend?

End of The World

Have you watched the news lately? If you need a daily dose of depression I'd recommend the nightly news. Last night the famous Tish came over. We ate a $5 Papa Johns Pizza and watched the news.
First story: 30,000 feared dead in Earthquake....dead kids being pulled from the debris...an entire generation wiped out...crying mothers.....as we zoom in with our cameras so that we may understand the pain. Or is it for our entertainment??
Second story: Mudslide in Central America may have killed hundreds in a Mayan Indian village....good to know Mayans are still around....or were...
Third story: Flooding in eastern U.S. ......I didn't listen much to this one, but I saw the flooded streets....cars submerged...major damage..
Fourth story: Hurricane Katrina.....now insurance companies are refusing to pay people even if they had "Hurricane Insurance"....because most of the damage came from flooding and the people didn't have flood insurance.....wasn't the flood part of the hurricane??
Fifth story: New Orleans police beating caught on tape....in the middle of one of the worst natural disasters in history....lets beat an old man...why not?...everyone's doing it. Not to mention there have been many stories of the police looting houses and businesses during the disaster instead of doing their job....which is, as they might have forgotten,..to serve and protect....corrupt bastards.

I turned off the news after that. This morning I heard more talk about a possible bird flu pandemic. So we have corruption, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, influenza, dead babies, dead soldiers, hmmm makes for a lovely day.
I drive down the street and see gas prices have finally come down to $2.77 a gallon. Just eight years ago, when I started driving, gas was only .94 a gallon. I don't mean to sound like an old man talking about 5 cent sodas, but this is crazy. I should not get excited because gas in only $2.77......oil company execs listen up....if you could, please...stop kissing your money just long enough to kiss my ass!!

So, this evening I didn't watch the news. Instead I played baseball on my playstation2. While playing I was reminded of a simpler time. When I was a kid and had no worries. I would play Nintendo and go to school and didn't have to worry about everyday life. I realized today the reason that so many people are addicted to games. I myself hadn't played video games in about three years, until this past weekend. But people play to escape from a troubled world....for a few moments...or more likely hours...you have nothing to worry about except for the screen in front of your face. And now, as I smoke my Swisher Sweet, I'm not really worrying about the end of the world. I'm wondering if I should trade David Eckstein or not....I mean, in real life he's a must have for the Cardinals...but he's just not performing on MVP 2005.

Blogging

I finally gave in to the intense pressure. I decided to join blogger. This is the first of many posts. Maybe someday I will be a blogging legend.