Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, hold your breath while reading this blog because i am the lucky winner of one case of swine flu. Went to the doctors on friday, thats what he thought it was then ran a culture and confirmed its a type a influenza which is what swine flu is and that's his diagnosis. Las time i checked i am not going to die, but recently i have learned way too well that as fun as it sounds on paper spending days on end in bed is HORRIBLE, or at least by yourself when your hurt or I'll. I'm going on four days straight now, at least it is at home though, because earlier this month i spent 4 days straight in a hospital bed with a dead phone so i couldn't even contact anyone and only being allowed to stand up next to my bed and pee in a cup. I wasn't even allowed to walk 20 feet to the bathroom.

where they decided to stick a tube 8 inches into my chest in between my ribs and my lunge.

your truly with two black eyes, sutures recently removed from chin (semi hidden by stubble) tube removed from chest and a series of sutures in my knee. The picture was taken a day or two after release, but before i was allowed to start showering again. Didn't bother counting the number of sutures in my knee before cutting them out with a scalpel, but the cut half moons around most of my knee cap.
I should probably be happy that i am still alive though since in the process of getting these injuries i took a little two seater car through two parked motorcycles, a parked van and the front of a hotel. I was passed out so i have no recollection of this but they had "extract" me from the car, an by that i mean cut me out with jaws of life. The car got smashed so well the instrument cluster was broken, front right wheel was bent around to almost be facing backwards and the glove box (no passenger to hit it) was broken from a front impact.
hope the news flash was exciting!

-oren