Return, Pollen, and Wrists
We got back from the SANS conference yesterday. I was pretty wiped out, mostly
because I didn't sleep very well Wednesday..
I received a call from Nicole Wednesday evening before we arrived in Athens.
She had been trying to get ahold of Geoff, but his phone was dead. She finally
got through on mine, because I finally got cell signal again. Kathy, Geoff's
girlfriend, suffered the loss of her brother on Wednesday morning, and Nicole
tried to convince us to get back to Gainesville that evening.
Geoff spoke with Kathy, and they decided with the craptacular weather (hail,
lightning, wind gusts up to 80mph) we were having, it'd be better to just
get a good nights sleep at my Moms and continue home on Thursday.
So, I slept on the couch again. Crappy sleep, dreamt of IP packet decoding
and whatnot.
We got in yesterday afternoon. The Santa Fe River was really flooded due
to the rains, and the pine trees said "Spring is in the air" and have turned
Gainesville yellow. The tires on Gowan's stationwagon were yellow by the time
we got to my place from all of the pollen.
This morning when I got up I headed over to our local Doc in a Box to get my
wrist looked at. I've had this ganglion cyst on it for about two months, and
during the trip to VA it was causing me some minor discomfort.
Dr. Eckell gave me a local and tried to drain it, but the thing wouldn't
budge. He told me I could always try smashing it with a book, but I'm not
really keen on that idea. They're setting up an appointment with a hand
surgeon for me. Although there are contradictary stories, there is enough
medical history that suggests hitting it with a book can help, and one
place even says
that for many years doctors kept Grays Anatomy for just this purpose.
Ouch.
Posted at: 15:59 on 07/03/2003
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