A Sarcoidosis Christmas
Well, the past week made me think that maybe, maybe my symptoms from this flare-up were going to taper off without ever getting to the life-disrupting stage they got to last April. Inconvenient I can handle, have to work from home and sleep 18 hours a day, I cannot.
The respite was apparently a bluff, because this weekend, my symptoms came roaring in with a head of steam. My eyeballs are back to boiling, I have a persistent dry cough — the kittens in particular are upset by this, because they’re not sure what it means yet — and I’ve been having a lot of joint pain. I’m still not at the point where Jenn has to help me get up from a laying position and help me get my legs over the side of the bathtub to shower, but I’m now on that side of the bellcurve rather than the side of normalcy.
Ho, ho, ho.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like a sarcoidosis Christmas …
That really doesn’t have the same ring to it, man. Plus, it’s a bitch
rhyming anything with sarcoidosis.
Hang in there and get well soon.
Comment by Todd — December 19, 2005 @ 14:07
Hang in there, man. Let’s hope this episode doesn’t last too long.
Comment by Jonah Weiland — December 19, 2005 @ 19:24
Right, so maybe I’ll stop whining about the 24/7 Christmas music at work, now. Clearly you’re having a worse holiday season than I am.
Dammit, why do you always have to WIN?!
Seriously, though, I hope this turns around for you soon, man. Take care of you.
Comment by Stephen — December 20, 2005 @ 0:09
Take care, mate. Hope you pull through this sooner rather than later.
Comment by Tony McMahon — December 20, 2005 @ 1:11
Fun fact — Andy Baker’s dad had it for years apparently (although not related at all to the use of past tense).
Comment by Joel — December 20, 2005 @ 12:50
OK, so clearly, we know what to get you for Christmas… Drink some whiskey.
I hear that helps. Well, maybe not. But it will taste good.
Feel better, B.
J
Comment by John Bartol — December 20, 2005 @ 15:27
My brother from another mother. Long time no see. Somehow “Merry Christmas”
just doesn’t sound as good as it did before I read this one.
Hope the spout is short lived. Gimme a holla sometime.
Peace!
Houston, III
Comment by Houston — December 24, 2005 @ 14:54