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Dec 12
2009

Well, I’ve been out of touch with a lot of peo­ple for the last four days, and I thought I’d save some time and pro­vide a place I could link every­one to for a quick expla­na­tion. On Tues­day evening, in the mid­dle of what the weather ser­vice is call­ing our “worst storm in 20 years,” I started hav­ing stom­ach cramps. I won’t go into detail about what fol­lowed, but I’ll skip for­ward to the part where Aditi (my lov­ing and amaz­ingly ded­i­cated wife) packed me into her 4-wheel drive Pathfinder and headed out to Com­mu­nity Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal. After a brief sur­vey, I was admit­ted for observation.

It looks, at this point, like a bac­te­r­ial Col­i­tis, which essen­tially just means an inflam­ma­tion of the colon with bac­te­r­ial sources, as opposed to sources that might not be cur­able. That would be an ideal diag­no­sis at this point, but I have to sched­ule a colonoscopy next week which will hope­fully shed more defin­i­tive light on the sit­u­a­tion. I sin­cerely thank every­one who’s been sup­port­ing me and send­ing warm wishes through­out this, and apol­o­gize to those I prob­a­bly should have con­tacted by now but have been too over­whelmed to do so.

The photo (click to enlarge) is of me get­ting ready for my sec­ond shower; the bare patches on my chest are where the pre­vi­ous incar­na­tion of the teleme­try patches were located. The wrap­ping on my arm cov­ers the IV site, which effec­tively dis­ables that arm and leaves me to shower one-handed. Good times.

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