So, how’s my health?
The prostate infection remains gone. No pain on peeing and my urine remains a healthy honey yellow color.
It’s gone from looking like cranberry juice to looking like weak lemonade.
It’s still pee, though. Trust me. I checked.
The whole thing has gone quite smoothly, Way moreso than the 1st time.
The fact that I have been through it all before made all the difference. The first time, I was understandably freaking out because in my books, urinating blood is a pretty serious symptom and I was imagining all kinds of horrible things that might be wrong.
This time, I knew the score. Knew it was probably just the same ol’ thing. And it was.
So mostly it just cost me some very painful peeing and a boring four+ hours at RGH.
At least I managed to not set foot in the place for two entire months!
In other good news, when I was doing Wound Care last Tuesday, the nurse discovered that the wound on my butt has closed and thus no longer needs a dressing.
So I am back to having only the dressings on each foot to worry about.
Sadly, this does not mean my butt has gone back to normal. The wound is still there and still hurts. I can feel its presence as I sit here and type.
But progress is being made.
I must confess, part of me will miss having strangers touch my butt.
Especially the male ones. Sigh.
I’m so lonely.
More after the break.
On ordering in
Man, it can be a pain.
Wanted the Pot Roast Dinner from Denny’s. Nope, they’re closed.
Fair enough. It’s after 9 pm. They probably close a 9:30 pm and stop taking orders at 9.
OK, I want a Whopper with Cheese meal from Burger King. Nope, THEY are closed.
Since when do fast food places close this early?!?
Luckily, Subway had my back. Got a Turkey sub wending its way to me as I type.
Tonight, I eat freshLY.
The Tik Tok Man feel
I am increasingly addicted to TikTok.
When I am scrolling through my For You feed, I feel a strange sense of being connected to something greater than myself.
And I sure as heck never got that from Facebook.
TikTok seems to know how to perform a social media miracle by serving me random videos that I almost always like.
And there’s such variety! From silly people goofing around to adorable pet videos to earnest news reports about all the crazy shit happening in the world (sigh) to pithy science tidbits to funny little skits and so much more.
And there is something magical about a never end basket of wonder and delights like TikTok. All the serendipity has a cumulative effect of making me feel more connected to my fellow human beings and that gives me a warm, glowing feeling.
And while I have only dipped my toe into recording myself, I am quite an active commenter and that scratches an itch too.
Right now, various aspects of my personality are tussling over which of them I will choose to express in TikTok clip form.
Will I be the wacky funny guy? The snarky sharp-witted verbal sharpshooter? The warm, peaceful, all-loving junior messiah? Or the ranting pundit screaming at people that they need to rise up and kick ass?
Right now, that last one is winning. Every horrible news story about the coming environmental apocalypse pushes me further in that direction.
Eventually I will have to make my feelings known.
And they are increasingly harsh.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.