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Aches and pains…

I’ve been quiet lately. Indeed, the rush of the holidays and the preparations for Christmas Eve dinner and a little soirée for New Year’s Eve kept me rather busy.

A couple of days after Christmas, Martine and I went cross-country skiing in the park behind our house. It was a quick run — maybe six kilometres — but it was the first of the year and I am dreadfully out of shape. The result was a sore back (which felt more like a kidney stone than muscle soreness) for the next three days. Then, two nights before New Year’s Eve I developed an inflammation in my Eustachian tubes — something that usually indicates a flu is on the way — but fortunately it passed quickly (with the help of massive doses of vitamin C and those mysterious Chinese pills that Martine buys somewhere).

I felt like a million bucks on New Year’s Eve, but I woke up on January 1 (at about 1:30 PM) with a screaming sore throat and a hugely swollen uvula. That’s the little dangly thing in your throat — mine was as big as my pinky finger (to the second knuckle) that day. It was weird because it was hanging down my throat half-choking me, and when I would cough it would flip forward onto my tongue. It felt like I had a ball of dough stuck in my throat.

Two fatigued and lethargic days later it is still swollen (but not as much) and sore. It seems to be going away, and hopefully I’ll be recovered by Wednesday. In the meantime, life in 2005 begins and off I go to the office to bring home the bacon.

On a positive note, the blork blog is the number one Google hit for "Mulligitawny Soup." I wonder what the Soup Lady would think of that? (Of course, if I had spelled it correctly I would have missed out on this dubious honour…)

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  1. Beware the inflamed Eustachian tube thingy. It can lead to Bell’s palsy.
    But the first x-country skiing day always leads to pain. I got mine because the milliner beat the crap out of me for taking her up an hilly and icy Mount Royal the other day.

  3. I know what you mean with the hugely swollen uvula…

    One night I woke up in sweat, agonizing and choking, almost unable to breath, I thought I was swallowing my tongue. I was able to hold it, biting into it, on the side of my mouth (btw teeth and cheeks), trying to cut it off with my teeth, I ended up realizing it was the uluva that had swollen. I could swallow it.
    Waking up with that thing in your mouth is not a pleasant feeling…

    My brother called the paramedics. Everything went fine in the end. It was diagnosed as a medicinal reaction.

  4. Looks like we are brother in 2005 suckyness. I spent Jan 1st in a fever-induced daze and now appear to have thrown my back. :-(

  5. So many aches and pains! Raoul, do you know what it was a reaction to? Andre, did you at least have a good 31st?

    Why can’t I get regular ailments, like other people? Why can’t I just sprain my ankle or whatever? Why do I always get these obscure ailments?

  6. Hi Blork!

    I do not remember that well, except for in sweat waking up. I remember I tried to make a note or something, but 10 years later…
    I think I was taking 2 drugs at the time.
    I do not remember which ones and what for. It was summer time (but still, I get cold and running nose all year long), and I do not have any chronic diseases.

    The guy was not too sure either. I just stopped.
    I would tend toward respiratory stuff. not sure.

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