God did smite me with great smoteness
Filed Under (The human condition) by Monkee on 05-03-2008
What else could go wrong?
Auto-immune disorder that causes me to get painful boils every now and then, been there.
Losing everything that I owned in the last year , child’s play.
Losing my hair and then getting ringworm on my bald head?
That’s a new one. Wow, thats pretty messed up. I didn’t see that one coming. Is he testing me? Why ringworm on a bald scalp? I picture there is a box of ailments and another of body parts to apply them to and he pulls a card from each and yells “uno”. I know that none of this is true but it paints a weird picture and I need something to take my mind of the fact that I have RINGWORM ON MY SCALP!
I tell my twin sister (yes I have a twin sister.So what of it? Why are making a big fuss about it? Wanna fight?) and she says it could have come from anywhere. At least thats what I think she said, I was busy rocking back and forth crying. She also told me my dry skin might be a factor and the my dog probably picked it up at the groomers (thats right, the dog groomers. You calling me gay or something? Wanna fight?) and then gave it to me.
She gave me some bath salts (don’t start with the gay thing again) to use and told me that it is a product that her and her friends sell. Its a mixture of tea tree oil, dead sea salt and a few other things. I asked her if she was calling me gay and if she wanted to fight. She said no and this is the same stuff that people pay hundreds for at health spas but her and her friends just want an economical way to get this. She handed me a frilly jar of this and said to use a few ounces in the tub.
I used it and my skin feels great. The ring worm is almost gone. Besides the Will and Grace looking jar it comes in, I love this stuff!
My point is this, I’m a fortunate man! I have fantastic siblings. They married wonderful spouses and they gave me a plethora of nieces and nephews that are funny and silly and are true gifts. I have it good, in fact we all do. We all spend way too much time bitching and lamenting the shallow and vain unimportant things that we think will make our lives better.
Take a moment, look back. Remind yourself how far you have come.
Monkee out
I laughed out loud at the repetetive, do you want to fights. Thank you for bestowing your wit upon me this evening. You brightened it.
Tyler
You are most welcome!
Wow, with all that, did you know that you have a six inch scar on the back of your head?…with a circle around it?……first time I saw that head, I knew you wuz gonna have trouble with it……………..
Good one
Bath salts?!
BATH SALTS?!?!
That’s so gay.
Now lacy red underthings… that’s blissful.
WOW! What drugs are you on ? Please email me
and tell me what sort of drug you use, as i want
some. Thought you would keep it all to your self?
“What about your friends manâ€!
I laughed, ok, monkee? No big deal. What? Whay are you saying that to me? “Wanna fight?”
One of your classic ones.
NOW do I get to kiss the Monkee?!
Im not sure what you mean but yes
You’re a freak. I mean that in the best of ways
Monkey: Very good piece of writing. I consider losing my hair to be the great tragedy of my life though my daughters consider this malady to be an unending source of amusement. I feel your pain brother.
I might do the shaved head thing but I have loads of scars and other anomalies. I think my shaved head will look like a pic of the Martian surface.
I had a horrible patch of boils on my back, that burned and itched constantly where I could not reach to scratch them. This went on for YEARS.
Finally, I had brain surgery and they gave me vancomycin (the last-resort antibiotic). Got meningitis anyway, but at least it wasn’t the bacterial type.
Boils subsided a bit, but didn’t go away.
Then I had an abscess that nearly killed me before I could get surgery to treat it. I pleaded for some antibiotics to slow it down a little, so they gave me a good slug of vancomycin. Then they performed the surgery.
Boils finally went away, and, God willing, they won’t be back.
So sometimes the bad things in your life counteract each other. Go figure.
It’s important to stop and smell the roses, now and again, even if they’re malodorous by nature!
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