[Sca-cooks] What has happened to Adamanteus?

[Olwen the Odd]

.......sounds like he needs a wee violin..............

Ol....um..'Lainie

>Hello, I'm alive. Sort of...
>
>Could we have a little tear-jerking music here, Professor? The tale I am 
>about to tell is not pretty... The not-so-short and not-so-sweet version is 
>that over the summer I became aware (yeah, this sounds really dumb) of some 
>problems with my legs -- basically tendinitis in both Achilles tendons. I 
>attempted to correct this, or at least keep it from getting worse, by 
>vigorously exercising, hiking locally, and such.
>
>Eventually, when this did not improve, my doctor sent me to a physical 
>therapist, who determined that there was some pretty serious, 
>broad-spectrum joint damage to ankles, knees, and hips. Nothing 
>irreversible, but requiring a lot of work to more or less redesign my 
>entire stride. I have about six exercises to do in between the three or 
>four sessions of PT per week. Not only does this take up a lot of time, but 
>it is also very tiring.
>
>A couple of weeks ago, I also came down with some kind of flu-like 
>symptoms, your basic 48-hour bug, with heavy concentration on chills, 
>fever, and, of course, aches and pains in the joints. (This is something I 
>have experienced so infrequently in my life that I honestly didn't 
>recognize the symptoms for what they were.) While in the middle of all 
>this, I managed to throw my back out pretty spectacularly (still not sure 
>how this occurred, but I was probably low-level delirious at the time, so 
>whatever it was I did must have seemed like a terrific idea at the time). 
>Naturally, being me, I attributed the pain of this injury to the flu, and 
>ignored it, apart from the occasional ibuprofen (acetaminophen being The 
>Devil's Placebo Analgesic).
>
>It also turns out that I am no longer able to injure my back, see my 
>chiropractor once, and be 100% healed the next day, which was, once upon a 
>time, my standard experience. I must be old or something ;-). I'd better 
>learn how to do that before it kills me.
>
>Anyway, I have a messed-up back, am dealing with the chiropractor three 
>times a week instead of the physical therapy (temporarily suspended), am 
>looking forward to the comparative luxury of painful PT four times a week, 
>and am not able to sit at the computer for very long stretches.
>
>Add to this the fact that my lady wife has volunteered for a job in the PTA 
>of my son's school, and it turns out this involves a lot of computer time. 
>Naturally, this machine is the only one of three available computers we 
>have that'll do the job, at the moment. So some of the time I could 
>actually be at this machine, being a good and more active list-member, I 
>actually can't get at this machine, it being occupied with all sorts of 
>Book Fairs, Bake Sales,  auctions, etc. At least she no longer complains 
>about my changing the OS about every six months... Oh, and I forgot to 
>mention I have also been transcoding a lot of video footage, which can be 
>very processor-intensive, sometimes occupying nearly every bit of power 
>this machine possesses, for anywhere from 20 minutes to two days at a time, 
>depending on exactly what I'm doing, and how.
>
>I feel like a cross between some kind of Warner Brothers cartoon villain, 
>caught out in a rain of anvils and old-fashioned cannonball-shaped bombs, 
>and Kenny from "South Park".
>
>I owe profound apologies to several people on this list for being 
>incommunicado for so long, but the past couple of months have been 
>difficult. I've been trying to at least read most of the posts from this 
>list, if not respond to them. I also expect things to improve, gradually. I 
>stress the word "gradually", because if all this becomes a major topic of 
>conversation, I probably won't be able to take part in it, not for a while.
>
>Ah, well, back to Bernard Cornwell... many thanks for thinking of me...
>
>  Kenn... I mean, Adamantius
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