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I am staying home at least this morning to go get checked out at the hospital. This morning marks four or five days with nausea, stomach pain, and lack of appetite, as well as a full seven days of some kind of sickness, starting with the fever and nasty chills on Thursday of last week that turned into the 102 degree fever on Saturday. The fever is gone, but my appetite has not yet come back. I ate a sum total of about four hundred calories yesterday and still don't feel like eating anything. That's pretty average for the last few days, and I'm down a couple pounds. Last night was another night spent almost entirely in bed.

I'm beginning to think I may have an ulcer, based on other symptoms.

I'm going to take a nice shower, then call the clinic when they open in half an hour or so and head over there.

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My doctor is leaning toward a virus being the cause of my ailments. He had a blood test, urine test, and abdominal x-ray done to rule out other things, and told me to stay home for the next two days, get lots of rest, stick to a bland diet (rice, bread, apple-sauce) and drink lots of fluid. He recommended Gatorade, so, though I usually don't go for the stuff, I bought two bottles of flavors that sounded at least somewhat appealing ('lime', and 'blue') and, to my surprise, downed them in short order. I may actually go out to Big!Lots and buy some more, along with an electric razor if I can find one. I'm not very good at using the manual ones. And to think that, when I was a little boy, I'd decided that, if I wanted to shave (which I'd also decided I probably wouldn't bother with), it would be with a straight razor. Not because anyone I knew did it; I just thought it was retro and cool.

In any case, I left a voice mail for my manager telling him the news and that I'd be out for the rest of the week. For now, I'm going to post a laptop on Ebay (anyone interested in in a 3.4ghz HP nx9600 with a full keyboard with numberpad and the balance of an onsite next day service agreement through some time in '08? This thing is really big; 17" widescreen display with a power supply you can use as a boat-anchor. It's got an onboard Firewire port, believe it or not.) and take that quick trip out I mentioned.

I also have someone coming by tonight, in theory, to possibly buy that Proliant ML570. I couldn't be happier than to have that thing out of my house and to have a few hundred dollars in its stead.

Ouch. My stomach has started hurting again as I write this. Maybe the Gatorade wasn't a great idea? Maybe a little of the french bread downstairs will help.