The reason I was so scarce was due to an unexpected hospitalization in December.  I had an abcess and staph infection in my leg that put me in the hospital for 10 days.  Nothing quite like laying on your back and oozing because you can’t do anything else.

I was very lucky on two counts.  First of all, I didn’t lose my leg due to the remarkable medical care I got.  Second of all, I had recently taken a job where I got health insurance. So while I’m jammed up financially, it’s nowhere near what it would have been.  (Universal Health Care NOW, dammit.)

However, even upon discharge I had a huge honking hole in my leg.  A friend described it very colorfully as  a size “ I could put both fists in and have room to move around”.   I took her word for it.

So I’ve been on light blogging duty because my schedule was suddenly full of home health visits and weekly doctor appts and elevating my swollen and still draining leg and counting my lucky stars that the staph infection responded to the antibiotics so well.

However, it does appear the wound has turned a corner, and we have a primary coming up.  There are presidential and Senatorial candidates to work for and a whole host of legislatives to clean house of.  So vacay’s over.

Let’s get to werk.

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