With Apologies to Tim Krieder
Let this be a lesson to you all – take infections seriously. VERY seriously.
What I have is not what people generally think of when they say they’re “sick,” I admit. It’s not a cold or flu. It’s some kind of tissue and nerve infection in the left side of my head. At the moment I don’t know what it is, actually, or where it came from – I’m going to find out tomorrow when the lab results come back. And even then there might be some other thing underneath causing it, and that is the part that really freaks me out, even though they say that if there is some secondary thing they find it “probably” isn’t going to be anything malignant. But it definitely IS drug-resistant and extremely painful. Like, impossibly painful.
Like, the picture above. But always.
In the meantime I’m a little, let’s say, out of whack. This message is actually quite an effort, and finishing this week’s page was just not within my abilities. But I’ll be back just as soon as conditions permit, and I’ll be in touch, of course. Let’s hope it all clears up and I’m back next week! I’ll be calling that my best possible scenario in all of this!
All the best, folks.
Oh dear lord! Sorry to hear that dude! Take the time you need and here’s hoping it’s not the other “underlying thing”. O_o
Thanks, man. The new round of drugs I got late last week is taking hold, thankfully. Once they know what it actually is tomorrow, hopefully it’ll all just be a matter of fine-tuning from here on out.
I shouldn’t be laughing because of your pain, but I am.
Get better soon, and give us a color version of that drawing!
Well, you gotta laugh in the face of danger, so they say. 😉
Can’t they just drill a hole in the side of your head to let the evil spirits out? (I got that one from “Star Trek IV”!) 🙂
I wish it were that easy. And as I understand it, that was one of the options on the table for a minute there. But at the moment it seems unlikely so I’m calling it a win and taking my pills instead. 😉
Get well soon
Thanks. I already feel a LOT better since the weekend. Not “well” yet, but the crippling, mind-altering, see-through-time pain has subsided dramatically.
Hope you get well soon, hang in there!
Thanks. It’ll take more than a drug-resistant bacterium to take me down. Next time, it better bring Kryptonite!
He said overconfidently… 😉 Honestly I call this a near miss but hell, everything went off just in the nick of time so call it a win.
I hope this wont turn out to be malign.
Take care and come safe back to us!
No malignancy this time, thank God. At least, not that they can see any indication of at this point. If there were, the drugs they gave me wouldn’t be working so well. But there’s another follow-up next week, so we’ll see. Hopefully, as they tell me, my hearing will come back in a month or two.
I call that a pretty good outcome all things considered!
May your battle be glorious and death come swiftly to your enemies, mighty “regular” viking
I will crush my enemies, I will see them driven before me, and I will listen to the lamentations of their women! 😉
I had a sinus infection last January, so you have my sympathies for “nasty things making head hurt”. Your pain is probably worse than mine was though, since it only required mild painkillers to endure.
It’s amazing how something like that which seems so minor can really get out of hand fast! This was just an “earache,” until it wasn’t. Suddenly it was this major thing that was at risk of damaging my skull bone, for God’s sake. It’s not going to, because they caught it in time to keep me out of the hospital, but it goes to show you, you need to take things seriously.
“Jim Henson took a wait and see approach, and now we have wrong-sounding Muppets!”
Suffering from occasional PTSD-caused migraines I can relate.
Please don’t die, okay?
🙂 I can report that this is NOT the one that’s going to kill me. No malignancy, only (“only”) a resistant infection, which they’ve controlled with some stronger drugs. My hearing should return gradually over the next few months.
Thank you for the concern, man. I was a hair’s breadth from the hospital on this one, but I dodged the bullet. It’s going to take some recovery but I’m definitely on the upswing.
Good. I know about infections myself, but most of MINE are in the other direction. UTIs SUCK and once you have had one, more seem to come no matter HOW careful you might be.
When the docs start talking ‘dilation’ you get real observant with taking care of yourself, REAL fast or it gets REALLY painful for a long time.
Take care of yourself. Your fans will wait. Patiently. (Mostly. Sort of. Kind of.)
I’ll tell you, man. When they stuck a steel probe halfway into my head, I let the expletives fly.
All for a good cause, though!
How many probes are required for perfect knowledge of terrestrial beings? Clearly more than have ever been performed…
They’ve already reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach them. This time it was the ear!
Damn, sounds like a nasty bug! I hope your recovery is swift or at least full and complete in that you recover all previous function!
Yeesh!
Yeah, don’t worry, we can wait, take care in the mean time!
Thanks, man. I appreciate that a lot! More “professional” comic artists are able to front-load their artwork to create a “buffer” but I’ve just never been able to do that. I appreciate the patience everyone has for me!