Holy shit it’s been a while. Sorry everyone for not updating as frequently. I’ve been in the midst of limping around, packing for a move, job hunting, dealing with much pain, and wafting unconsciously toward packs of hipster boys puffing away on their American Spirits and their ennui. So enticing. So terrible.
Personally I’ve been in a world of hurtin’, and am only just starting to get over it. What I had mistaken for a pulled muscle turned out to actually be costochrondritis, an inflammation of the tissue/cartilage/muscle between my ribs. The cause? Smoking. Yeah. Fuck. My. Life. It SUCKS. Essentially, I’ve been dealing with a deep, sharp, radiating, ice pick to the chest every time I’d taken a deep breath, coughed, sneezed, laughed, or moved in a certain way. It’s pretty fucking awful. I’m thinking it was the smoking induced 3 month long bout of bronchitis that did it. Bad, deep, chest rattling cough where you’re spitting up play doh, and your eyes are all watery, and strangers cross the street to avoid you. Of course I smoked right through that sucker. Silly me. “Hell if it can kill me, it’ll kill whatever’s in my lungs right?” <--- I starting to realize what an amoeba brain I was while I was. Walking around the city, outside the in cold, the snow. Hack. Puff. Puff. Hack. Hack. Spittle. Hack. Puff.
Of course, after I got better, and then quit, I started coughing again. This time I suppose my lungs were doing a sweep through, kinda like wringing out a mop after doing its deed in a subway bathroom. (So that’s where I put my feta …)
The result was that it completely aggravated something inside, and hence the costochrondritis, or as I like to think of it as Stabby! Stabby! STAB stab! STAB! Stabby! Stab Snarly Mae Over And Over And Over AND Make Her MISERABLE (StabSTABStab) Syndrome (Stab Stab!).
On the bright side, it’s starting to get better. I figured the best route out of this one was expired prescription medication, and lots of alcohol. Hell if I can’t smoke like a rock star anymore…
I jest. Kiiiiinda.
I’m planning on hitting the gym and testing the waters tomorrow because I finally think I might have a chance of making it through a session without collapsing in a shuddering, grimacing heap.
Wish me luck. I hope that all of you have been doing well too guys! Know that I’ve been thinking of everyone here!!! <Waves sad flag from the depths of Snuggie.>
Will update more tomorrow.
My cat says, Hi everyone. Meow. Meow. Mrrow. Feed Me. Mrrowoww. Mrrrrroooo. No Smoking! Mrrowww. Meow. MRRoooo.
