I'm back...

It has been almost 3 months since I wrote anything here and professionally, personally, and tumorly a lot of stuff has been going on in the land of Kevin and Achmed.

First off, I have a new job. About a month ago I did something that I always said I would never do… I became a civil servant. I have to tell you, I loved my old job and even though I had no intentions of staying there for the rest of my life, I didn’t really have any intentions of leaving it anytime soon either. Anyway, to make a long story short, a great gig came up with the Provincial Government and I decided to seize the opportunity and start my government career. My recent health crisis has me looking at things in a different way!

That made for a very hectic six week period, starting off with my vacation in Vegas that had me snowed in for an extra three days. I don’t know if you have ever been to Vegas, but I can tell you that by the time it is time to leave you are ready to go. Regardless of how much fun you have had. The snow storm in New York that had the entire airport system shut down on the Eastern seaboard had me stranded for 3 extra days in Disneyland for adults. I actually had the opportunity to get stranded in Cleveland instead. I have never been to Cleveland, and no offense to any Clevelanders reading this, I opted to keep that trend going and lose more money playing extra Blackjack instead.

When I finally got home, I had to clue up things from my old job, then get started on my new one, take a trip to Halifax, then take a trip to Labrador and still get everything finished and started. It seems for the first time in a while I have a relaxing evening ahead of me.

Three of the four guys have finally started a new band and though we don’t have a name, for the first time that I can remember, I look forward to Mondays! Monday night is our regular rehearsal time… at the pace in which we are learning new songs, it might be fair to say we are practicing as a retirement sideline for when we hit our 60s!

So, now to Achmed… things are going pretty well, more or less. The numbness in my hand is gone; the numbness in my face is gone; the roaring in my head has stabilized; my hearing seems to have stopped getting worse; and my balance sucks. These are all good signs. The fact that my balance is so bad is actually a possible sign that Achmed is shrinking or at least relieving some of the nerve pressure and my body is readjusting to the way it used to be, pre-Achmed.

Now, just because all this is good doesn’t mean that all things are cherry in my head. For the past few weeks I have been falling out of my chair, walking into walls, nailing door-frames with my shoulder whenever I pass through one and pretty much every time I turn around, I almost fall over. In fact, I think that Achmed is indirectly, at least partially, responsible for the tendinitis I have in my right elbow. I can’t remember doing anything to actually injure my arm, but based on the tenderness of my joint and the amount of times I have hit a door-frame with it in the past few weeks, I think my recovering balance has inflicted a case of tennis elbow on me. I realize that sounds kind of funny, but I can assure you with the utmost of confidence, I am not even partially laughing.

This week, Wednesday to be specific, I am going into the MRI lab again to get an internal head-shot. They won’t really be able to tell me if the surgery was successful, but they should be able to tell me if something went terribly wrong. I guess that means that no news will be good news!

Maybe I will see if they can take a shot of my elbow while I am there.

From Achmed and Me… Live Life!