(Warning: Narrative including a racial epithet follows.) Have you ever encountered someone who holds some heinous prejudice and just assumes you do too? Rather troubling, isn’t it? The assumptive nature of it is the most depressing part. The implication is that these are people who have inhabited a world in which such is natural and … Read more
Well, it took 10% of my antibiotic schedule to arrest the carnage, and another 10% of it for the unambiguous healing to begin. By this afternoon, my primary mental anguish had shifted from “Will I sleep tonight?” to an uneasy inventory of all of the things I didn’t get done yesterday and today. Barring a … Read more
I stayed home again today. Lost my voice yesterday. Even with that, up until last night I’d thought this a pretty standard cold, if with a little more throat pain. Then it colonized an ear, and there was a pronounced explosion of pain every time I swallowed (that became fabulously visceral when I coughed). Over-the-counter … Read more