Sick this

I came down with a cold on December 17th.  It was after a speaking engagement in North East Georgia. I was teaching early on the morning of the 14th.  I arrived the night before so I wouldn't have to deal with any potential traffic or get up before newspaper boys on bicycles.  I arrived, checked-in, met the host committee and prepared for to go out to dinner when a member of the HC waddled up to me, looked down to me and said in a fairly thick southern accent; "You the fancy Atlanta boy who's goin' to teach us how to use the Internet?"

I thought for a second, swallowed, looked up and quietly said; "I work in Atlanta. I'm going to show you how the Fox uses the Internet.  And as far as fancy goes sir, I like whiskey and the Georgia Bulldogs."

He grabbed my shoulder and shook me like a rag doll howling with laughter.  After dinner I was invited out (read: forced into a car) for drinks with him and another gentleman just like him at a local watering hole.  This is where I unlocked a new level of intoxication I didn't know existed.  It will be referred to as; "politician-drunk".

But back to this cold.  A week after fighting what was just a cold I scooted on down to the doc in the box. I was dismissed after being told it was just a cold and to ride it out.  2 weeks after that I walked into my general practitioner's office and said, "I've had a cold for 3 weeks, fix me."  My doctor quickly give me an antibiotic so strong I haven't been allowed to go the gym for the last week.  Here we are a week later.  The cold is gone but I'm still sloshing fluid around in my lungs. I've coughed so much in the past 4 weeks I've given myself a bulging disc (I checked the spelling of "disc" 4 times.)  Tomorrow I'm headed back to the GP for a chest x-ray. Like most things, I'm blaming the politicians.