I'm totally sick. It started at about 2pm on Thursday. Actually, I think it started at 4:30 on Tuesday when I did hot yoga for the first time ever. It was beautiful. 1 full hour and a half of sweating my brains out. I drew everything out ... emotions, stress and apparently a few bugs that had been soaking in the hot tub of my Chi.
On Thursday afternoon I started feeling really cold and goose-pimply. Then the sore throat I had woken up with became more and more inflamed. Next thing you know I'm wrapped up on the couch in sweats, 2 sweatshirts, a huge blanket and the heat cranked up to 75 degrees F-- and I was STILL freezing. Luckily I have fantastic friends like Sokolicky who not only put a spare on the flat tire (I'm TELLING you, she's a Rockstar) that I'd noticed on my car in the morning (actually Lisa D. noticed it after I drove it about 3 miles to her house without a clue) but then made me some kick-that-cold's-ass 4-clove garlic soup with fresh rye croutons. Yummy. I was crashed out in bed by 9:30.
While I sweated for 15 hours, I missed a GREAT party put on by Hitgirl and Diesel for the opening of the Diesel Clothing store downtown. It included FREE drinks, hundreds of hottie straight and queer urban hipsters, beat boys and the Tour DJ for Scissor Sisters, Sammy Jo. Damn that Hot Yoga!!! I’d rather swim in my own vermin than miss a party like that. At least ALL of my friends got go out and play. And here’s a few pics that Christine took. Damn she’s good. More to come!
I was feeling better on Friday. However, when I woke up in the morning drenched in sweat I noticed a fungal growth on the corner of my lip. A few months ago I had found a similar unappealing growth under my armpit near my right breasteses. I went to the doctor who told me it was shingles, a rash caused by the chickenpox virus.
~ snippit from the internet so it must be true ~
You can only get shingles (Herpes Zoster) if you have previously had chickenpox. After having chickenpox the virus lies dormant in the nerves, and shingles occurs when it is revitalised in one particular nerve to the skin, thus explaining the way it affects a clearly demarcated band of skin only.
Usually the cause is a decrease in your body's natural resistance, which may come through other infections, stress, being generally run down, or occasionally, when the body's immune defences are affected by certain drugs or other immune deficiencies.
~ end snippit ~
I’ve ruled out the ‘are affected by certain drugs or other immune deficiencies’ because that’s impossible. So I blame stress.
I’ve missed two things going on this weekend (The Diesel party and Whitney’s Bday party .. including a Whitney bday kiss!!) but I still have two DJ gigs to keep me busy, Michelle’s Sobriety party tonight and Baltic Room tomorrow night. However, I have a very unsightly patch of FUNGUS on my FACE that will be a lovely addition to the cute little outfit I was going to wear on Thursday but will save for Sunday instead (hey, at least I don’t have to do laundry).
So two things to do today … go to get my tire changed and then go to Fred Meyer to buy makeup, which is something I haven’t bought since I gave up penises in 1998.
Which reminds me. Does anyone else find Loreal’s marketing slogan ironic? I saw the commercial when I was watching the Golden Globe awards where the slogan states ‘You’re worth it’. And yet the company makes millions of dollars a year off the fact that billions of women throughout the western world believe that without their product, they aren’t.
