Eric Tapley

Ah, the joys of having a suckass intestinal tract.

I’ve been back in and out of the hospital twice during the last four weeks. I have a stubborn intestinal infection that didn’t clear up with the first round of antibiotics and consequently sent me back to the hospital after I thought all was well.

This isn’t a big problem, in the grand scheme of things, as two three-day stays are a far cry from staying for weeks at a time back when I was battling Colitis. But it still reminds me of how hard it is to be sick, how much illness consumes your life and detracts from everything else, and how we never know what the next day really holds.

So this sucks. I’ll look at the bright side. I had a chance to visit with some of the wonderful nurses I’ve come to know at Boston Medical Center (Hi Chen, Aryn, Debbie, Jane, Sibohan, and the rest of 8 West!). It was a vacation, of sorts, at least away from the stresses of work (and legally drug induced, to boot). And, uh, free hospital TV?

I’m happy to be out and back on the trail to health. Now for that Nike+iPod system so I can kick this medication weight.