I’ve decided to rejoin the world of the living

It wasn’t an easy decision to make. Turns out I didn’t have bronchitis at all, but pneumonia and a pleurisy. In a nutshell? When I coughed, it felt like I was being stabbed from my left elbow, up over my shoulder, and down my side to my waist. More than once I was left panting it hurt so bad. But if it hadn’t been for that, I probably wouldn’t have gone to the doctor at all, and could have died from the pneumonia. I should be thankful, but I’ve been pretty steadily doped up on Lortab to dull the pain of coughing.

I’ve been bed/house ridden for the past four days, and I’ve been going stir crazy. I haven’t been able to work out for two weeks, due to my Omaha trip and being sick, so I watched lots and lots of reruns of Sell This House. Why? Mainly just for her. Rawr. And she’s single! I did manage to get out to meet Mom, Dad, and Lena for lunch so that helped a little. I need to massively go grocery shopping, but I think I’m going to try that tomorrow morning while everyone’s in church for Easter.

Work on my websites sorta ground to a halt during my week o’ sickness- I couldn’t even manage to sit up for longer than an hour without a coughing fit, so I tended to sleep for most of it. I did manage to get my VMWare server up and running, including my 4 virtual machines (yah!). So far I have two Windows 2003 servers (AD/DNS controllers), a Windows XP test machine, and a Fedora Core 8 (linux) server for php/mysql learning experiences.

I got interviewed as an artist (hush, it’s not funny) for a friend’s college class, and it made me realize how much I missed sketching. I’m going to try and get back into it more, another one of those “non-computer related hobbies” I keep trying to find.

So I’m shooting for Monday to resume working out. Hopefully this stupid pneumonia and pleurisy are gone, because if not I can’t strain my left arm and I can’t do any heavy breathing. That would make me a sad panda.