EPTWell, how is it going Team Liquiders? First off, i will start off where my last blog left off. It was about a month and a half ago, so i hardly expect anyone to remember it, or even to have read it.
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=226217
If you did read it, or just got done with it, you are probably wondering why the heck i am still here on TL posting, or how i have almost doubled my post count in this month and a half, and both of these questions can be answered with on of the stupidest words in the English Language. Pneumonia. Now this word is not just stupid becuase it has a silent P, or becuase it takes me like 10 tries before i can even spell it close enough for spell check to do the rest, it is truely stupid becuase of what it did to me over the course of the last bit of my life.
So, if you still have not read or even skimmed through my blog post from last time, i will give you a run down right now:
The date was May 25th, and was probably the 24th in Arizona, where I am currently living, and have lived almost all of my life. I actually spent the previous year in Utah going to school and was born in North Carolina, but that is besides the point. So, at this time in my life i was getting ready to leave on a mission for my church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or LDS, or Mormon church) and I was so stoked to go. I was called to go to Japan for 2 years, so i even changed my location on TL to Japan, haha. So this is why i made that post, I was planning on leaving June 1st to go up to Utah, where i would learn to become a good missionary, and start to study Japanese before i Left to Japan. While on a mission, you are allowed to get on the computer 1 time a week to send and receive emails from family and friends, and usually have about 1 hour to do it, and that is all the communication I will have, besides a phone call on mothers day and Christmas. So when i wrote my blog, it was probably going to be the last time i got on TL for a long time, let alone got any SC2 update or anything like that.
So, I have to back up a little bit now, and talk about earlier in May, when the stupid illness came upon me. So i got done with my first year of College at the End of April, and i came back home for my last month before i left. the first week of may went perfectly. I was feeling great and everything was awesome. The next week i got a cold, but it was no big deal. I usually never get sick at all, but a cold was really no issue. That Saturday, i think around the 14th, i started to feel better, but then i was getting some kind of headache. Still not a big deal at all, becuase the next day, Sunday, i was heading up to Hawaii, the land of Amazing, to relax. So Sunday i take the incredible 6 hour flight to Hawaii, it was not horrible, but i was feeling a little sick on the plane, but still nothing to worry about at all. We got there at like 5:00 Hawaii time, but i was so worn out, and starving because i had like no food the entire day.
Ok, i am realizing how long this story might take so I am apologizing for it now, i will add some stuff at the end of this to try to make it more awsome, and not just a wall of text.
So continuing with the story, i had some diner, and then went back up to the hotel, which was freaking sweet/pretty. I went to sleep, and had the worst/strangest night probably of my entire life. I can not even describe how horrible i felt, but it was just terrible. Turns out i had a very high fever that night, and i keep having these delusional scarey fever dreams, that made it so i only had about 2 hours of sleep the entire night. The next day just sucked. I was constantly very hot, then very chilly, with these uncontrollable shivers. Not the kind of day i wanted to have on my last vacation, especially in Hawaii. I never left the hotel room that day, and was feeling horrible. That night is when it all went downhill. I was having this pretty sore ache in my side the entire day, but i thought it was just from the horrible sleep i had, and the non-stop coughing that had been going on for the past 20 hours. So as i was trying to get some sleep, i took Ny-quill, which is a night-time cold drug that helps you sleep when you are sick. As i was about to go to bed, i went to the bathroom one last time, and on the way in, i was feeling crazy dizzy, next thing i know i am lying on the bathroom floor, with my dad and mom around me freaking out. I passed in the bathroom, but luckly before i was undressed, and somehow my dad saw me falling.
My dad is a radiologist, so he is very smart when it comes to medicine and health, and i know without him i would have not been as lucky as i was. It took over an hour for me to be able to sit up without passing back out, but i was finally able to do so. I spent the rest of the night throwing up and just feeling even worse. The pain in my side kept hurting more and more, and by morning, time, i was taken to the ER. I had some X-Rays done, which my dad was able to read, and it tuns out a majority of my left lung was covered in Pneumonia. I was admitted and stayed in the hospital until Thursday night, and i still was not much better. I had to be in a wheelchair to prevent passing out the rest of the trip. When i got back home Sunday night, i still was feeling pretty bad, but I had a lot of improvement from Tuesday when i went in the hospital. It was a pretty Crappy trip, but the worst was still to come.
I weighed myself when i got back home, and from what happened, i had lost over 15 pounds. This may not sound like a lot to some of you, but man this really made me mad. This was a big deal to me for a few reasons. First off, I guess i will describe myself to you guys. I am 6'4 and currently weigh only about 160 pounds(becuase of all the weight loss). Before college last year, i was only about 155, and so you can tell i was pretty skinny. Over the course of a year, i went to the gym about every day and i gained basically 20 pounds of muscle, so I was at 175 about. Because of this illness, I was not able to go to the gym since this happened, and i have lost almost all of this weight, and that just sucks. I know i will get it all back, but it took a ton of work to get to where i was before it all happened.
Ok, so on with the story. The "P" word was still hurting me, but i thought i was getting a little better. I did not have a fever or cold any more, and the only issues i had were this really really horrible pain in my side (left lung) when ever i were to lay down, move weird, take a deep or quick breath, or really did anything. I was told this was normal, but i did not know for sure. I thought i was getting better, so i even wrote that blog that i mentioned earlier. I was getting ready to go on my mission! I was glad it was all over with. So before i left, i think May 26? i got a final x-ray to see what was going on with my Chest. This is where things went bad fast. The image showed that almost my entire left lung had filled with Fluid and was completely collapsed. It was not good. I had to go into the hospital and get what was called a thorizentesis done. I am sure i slept that wrong. What that means is, i had to get a tube get stuck through my back, in between my ribs, and into my lungs and drain as much fluid as possible. I was awake for this, and man it hurt like, well, something that hurts really bad. I have to admit though, it helped me feel a little better, and the pain did not last for too long. The only issue was that I would have to have my mission delayed.
This was the hardest part of this entire episode. It is really hard mentally to be able to leave your family for 2 years, with only email contact once a week. And being told i had to wait 6 weeks until i felt better was tough. I am glad that I was able to have this time to be able to recover, but it was pretty tough. So That is the reason i am still here. I will be leaving on my mission This Wednesday, and I will be gone for 2 years.
I keep thinking about how different everything will be when i get back. My family will have changed so much (lil bro and sis will be in high school, my older bro might get married, and so much more), just imagine how TL will change in that time. HOTS will have come out, and with that so much will have gone on. TL will probably get all different, so many new posters. I wonder if BW will still be able to keep going. What pros will be the TOP, if Korea is still the hot-spot for the best in the world, will my Lovely IdrA still be Zerg? SO much will have happened. I know the first thing i will do when i get back is bump this thread, so i guess i will apologize to the Mods for that now! I wonder if Torte de Lini will get Perm-banned or if he will still be spamming posts like normal? + Show Spoiler +
I love you man, haha
So, that was my story, I hope you were able to read my rambling thoughts, and hear my story. I am glad for all of the friendships I was able to make in this past year i was able to be here on TL, and i hope you all do not forget about me while i am gone. Also, TL better still be here when i get back or so help me....
Alright, my story is over and now i will add some random stuff that I would normally blog about:
MUSIC!!!!
Alright, so for anyone who knows me, knows that music is a huge part of who I am. I love finding new bands and i almost always have music playing with what ever i am doing. I will list here some of my all time favorite bands/songs that if you have not heard, you really should.
Dirty Heads. This band is pretty old, but is simply amazing. I like to think of them as a mix of Sublime+Rap(ish)+Beach. That is a weird math equation, but just listen to some of their songs.
Here is there only single, and the one you might have heard if you know them:
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Here is my favorite song from them:
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And another great:
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Next band is actually a youtube channel that i found out about 1 month ago. The channel uploads a bunch of Dubstep mixes, one everyday, and i really have grown to love them. I know some people love Dub, so i would check these guys out if it is something you like
This is one of the mixes they did. I love the Cataracs and Flux Pavilion, so this song just makes me happy (i do wish it did not include Drake at the end though, i do not like him)
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If you like this, or anything like this, check them out. They are still pretty underground for all of you "hipsters".
The last music i will post is still pretty well known music, but it is my Top 3 favorite Artists, so i have to post her!
TAYLOR SWIFT FOR LIFE BABY!!!!!
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I have taken a lot of crap for liking her in my life, but i can't help it. My favorite songs from her are Tim McGraw (it is actually a song), Sparks Fly, Haunted, and many others.
Ok, so I really have so much more i wanted to talk about, but i think this will have to do it. If anyone actually read this entire thing, thank you very much, and i hope you enjoyed my tail. I would be surprised if any of it was actually coherent, but i tried my best!
Edit: Thought i might as well take some pix(screen shots) of tl and stuff to see how it changes by the time i get back:
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Here is one of the loading screen, a lot of cheese that game, haha
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TL as you can see it today!
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SC2 main menu.
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