It's no fun being sick

In the past seven days, I have been out of the office 4 - 1/2 days. Last week was due to Kyle's hospital visit and recovery. Then yesterday, I left work after lunch when the fever, chills, aches and pains starting coming on. When I started having stomach pains this morning, I thought it was time to go to the clinic to find out what's going on. Since my symptoms weren't clearly consistent, I had blood and urine samples taken and chest x-rays. When I was having my second round of xrays, I started feeling quite light-headed and came "this close" to fainting. Luckily the tech came over to me in time. From then on, I was in a wheelchair. E-gads!

The diagnosis? Gastroenteritis...a.k.a "stomach flu", which made no sense to me since I was neither vomiting nor having things going the other way. Interestingly enough, my x-ray also revealed something else totally unrelated--apparently, I have a "calcified nodule" on (or in?) my lower right lung. It is in all likelihood benign, but my doctor is going to have the radiologist comment on it and get back to me in a couple of days.

Well, I got home and then things started moving. I'll spare you additional details. I hope to be back in the office tomorrow.

Now I need to rest again.