Has Anybody Missed Me?

Unlikely…

I been off sick for a couple of days, which seems like ages and there hasn't been any shouts. So, no one will have noticed I'm not there. In fact it's such a long gap between shouts that you often can't remember the last time you saw old so-and-so…

Hopefully I'll be back on the run early next week. I've done something to my intercostals - a muscle group that runs between your ribs. Hurts to breathe, move, lie down, anything. Put up with it for a couple of weeks but it got worse a couple of days ago so I paid a visit to our Aussie Nurse Practitioner. Hell of a journey but worth it!

She prescribed some meaty pain killers and anti-inflammatory tablets too. The painkillers work a treat.

Being of not quite sound mind and body I decided, inadvertently, to test the "can cause drowsiness, do not operate heavy machinery" warning. I got up this morning and, for some reason, took two of these painkillers on an empty stomach. Twenty minutes later and it was like the living dead. I could hardly keep my eyes open. I was literally falling asleep standing up! Things got so bad that I had to retreat to bed and have an hours kip. It wasn't till lunchtime that I felt normal (!?*) again.

Shan't be making that mistake again…

I think this is my first time off sick in around five years. My alerter had to be surgically removed from my hip. Feel naked without it. Sad git!