I almost died......really!

Hey- it appears that I am also a compulsive liar, too. Sorry for the lack of updates in.....a long time.

Internet user: "Shaddap! We wanna hear how you apparantly almost died."

Me: "alright.....sit down"

About a month ago, I snuck up on my eldest of two cats while he was sleeping on the back of the couch, and decided to spook him a bit....I just petted him a little hard, and went, "Waagh!", or something to that extent.
He didnt like to be awoken from such a deep slumber in such a manner (I mean, who WOULD?), and he bit me. HARD. Like, he broke the skin, drew blood.
I washed the area, but a few hours later, my hand was sore where he bit me.
That night, I could barely move my hand. The next morning, my hand was in full-on paralysis. I went to an after hours medical clinic, they gave me some antibiotics for the bite.....I couldnt even grasp thing in my hand without blinding pain, so I called in sick to work (Y'all remember what I do....it's in here, somewhere)..

So the wife, kids and I went to see a movie.

We get out of the movie around 6 PM, and my hand was red and even MORE swollen.
Huh.

"Well, maybe the pills havent kicked in yet", I thought.

I went to bed, slept a little better, awoke the next morning with not as much pain, but now the entire back of my left hand was red, swollen, and well....felt like a hamburger bun, it was so....spongey.

During work, I stopped into the local hospital emergency room just to get someone to look at my hand....the emergency attendant took one look at my red hand and proclaimed: "Holy Shit!"

SO I'm thinking to myself that that kinda reaction from an industry pro such as herelf is a bad thing.
Yep.

I got admitted to emergency (called in sick for the rest of the day....AGAIN), and waited to undergo an IV drip of some "really powerful" antibiotics.

How did I almost die?

The nurse took the time to show a thin red line traveling up my arm from my hand.
That was apparantly infected blood travelling to my heart.
Had I waited another day or two, I'd have been dead.
I had full on blood poisoning.

Great.

SO, the next day, the swelling went WAY down, and I felt a heck of a lot better.
The pain took a while to go away, but I went back to work and tried to do the best I could with a semi-crippled hand.

Great story.

I *had* taken a pic of my incredibly swollen hand (with red line of death), but I seemed to accidentally erase it, dammit).

So instead, I'll show you my latest (and incredibly cool eBay acquisition, this signed pic of the Ghostbusters!!!

Peace out, everyone. I shall be back....uh....when I'm back.