Nuts...
In Feb I caught the flu, which turned into bronchitis, which became strep, which turned into pneumonia. I dropped 30 lbs in a little over a month. Do you know how much weight a skeleton can afford to lose? None.
I wasn't getting any better, and I had a ton of school to catch up on and a new job. We kept doing tests to figure out what was up, but it was a slow and frustrating process. Did a blood test for mono, saw my liver enzymes were "abnormal." I stayed sick, always green in the face, exhausted. I kept forgetting really simple things - it honestly felt like I had Alzheimer's. For example, one day I completely forgot where my classes were. No joke. I was SO confused. I didn't figure it out until a classmate called me to check up. I was so overwhelmed with trying to catch up with school and work that I started to forget more important things. I missed a month and a half of work, so I needed money. I was working overtime while sick... it was ridiculous. I'd forget that we had a report due (it was like 30% of our grade); hell I forgot we even had a book to read. I'd forget tests, names, people. I thought I was going crazy. It may have been the medicine over-drugging me since I lost the weight. Maybe it was the liver stuff. Maybe it was a recurring sinus problem...
So I got a CT scan and an ultrasound. I had hundreds of gall stones (wth?). They said they've never seen a youngun' with such a bad gall bladder. My sinuses had also swollen shut and filled with pus and polyps. I finished the semester (I'd have been damned if I had to withdraw again), and had the surgeries in late May. I was out until the first weeks of June. One surgeon released me on the 2nd, the other released me on the 4th. My boss scheduled me for the 2nd... I tried to call him the week before, but he wouldn't answer or return the calls. He's a tiny Thai man that's filled with a lot of rage. I didn't get fired; he just wouldn't tell me if I was on the schedule.
"Sam, am I on the schedule this week?" *In honky asian accent* "IhavenoideaIverybusyG'bye!"
So I've been working as a DJ for LSU's radio station, and I just got another serving job. Trying like hell to save up for when I transfer to CSUN in August, but I'm still poor as hell, haha. I sound like an old man... Back surgery, gall surgery... At this rate, I won't have much left to take out.
Just been trying to make ends meet. Plus, I don't need the extra GAS. Still playing, though. Doing recordings with bass, been playing drums around town with a friend's solo act.
How've you guys been? I saw all kinds of new stuff from EHX...
