Diverticulitis

Fourteen letters and six syllables that spell out "no fun" for yours truly. I'm not going to gross you out with the symptoms; if you're interested, you can look it up for yourself. I've been suffering from it for a little over a week now, and have lost about 15 pounds because of it.

I went to the ER twice yesterday, first at 3:00 AM (discharged at 8:30 AM) and again at 9:00 PM (discharged at 9:00 AM), and was put on an IV drip both times. I had a CT scan of my colon at 4:00 AM this morning.

I missed Saturday of Collegium, and the court heraldry class I was going to teach, because I couldn't be away from facilities for more than 30 minutes at a time. The only reason I went on Sunday was to get Ariana's name and armory, which bounced last week's heraldry meeting, in for this week's (it passed, and is on its way to Laurel).

Finding out that the Collegium Regent for Heraldry criticized me at the Regent's lunch, and said he wanted to "find a way to hurt [me] for having the gall to miss Saturday but show up on Sunday," even after I explained why I wasn't there the previous day, only made the event worse. You don't treat anyone that way. Not in the SCA, not ever. This discourteous gentle has a long history of such boorish statements, and I'll not be teaching another course in heraldry, so long as he remains Regent. /side rant

So I'm about to head to the store to get some chicken soup and gatorade. Happy Halloween, everyone.