Spiking

Spiking

Temperature started to rise today, a sign that I have an infection.
No other symptoms happily, but this is what they call Spiking, when an internal infection takes advantage of the lack of a police force to run riot and the temperature spikes.  I've got my own little North African scenario going on inside me here.  Perhaps we can see the new Stem Cells as the New Democrats, and the infection as the Desperate Dictators clinging to power.

Anyway, the staff here have been waiting patiently (geddit?) for this moment, so within an hour of my temperature reaching 38.2 (not exactly outrageously high, but they like to catch any infection early, given the lack of internal controls), I had been examined by a (rather gorgeous) young blonde doctor (it was hell, but at least she found no symptoms - and I managed not to dribble in front of her), had a chest x-ray, donated blood and other less savoury samples, and been injected with enough antibiotics to clear Tripoli in a single sweep.


An Opportunistic
Infection



Hence by 7 pm, when you were generously sending Loving Vibes in this direction, I was plugged in to the drips and complementing your treatment with a dose of the Marsden's finest.

Good timing or what?!

We'll see tomorrow morning whether the Dictator is going to hang on "to the last drop of blood" or whether he'll scarper to Saudi Arabia after all.  Or will the New Democrats string him up?  Such suspense.....