One good thing about coming back to Australia, at least this time, is that once again bananas are nearly as affordable as they are in New Zealand.
What with Christmas, annual leave and the whole pneumonia/pleurisy thing (about which I will write some more this week) it has been six weeks since I did any productive work in the lab. I did set foot in there a month ago, and showed the boss one of my x-rays, but then I went round to the Royal Prince Albert and next thing I knew I was flat on my back with a whizzy thing whizzing around me, some bugger sticking a tube in my chest and on enough antibiotics to sterilize the whole damn' hospital. If only it was that quick, actually — again, more on that later.
So tomorrow, it's back to work. And I have to remember what the hell it was I was doing all that time ago, and decide whether I should go to Lorne this year as planned or spend the extra week working. I certainly won't have time to do the experiments that were to form the basis of my poster.
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Well, Happy New Year and I'm glad to hear your lungs are (completely?) functional again.
I was beginning to worry...
Posted by: Whiffling into 2007 | January 15, 2007 09:25 AM
Indeed, Happy New Year! I wasn't so worried - I knew you were back in circulation. But at least you can be pretty sure that even if everything is on an even keel, it will be better than being in the hospital with fluid in the lungs! Thanks for dropping by.
Posted by: Alethea | January 15, 2007 10:43 PM
Welcome home! Good luck with starting things in the lab again and that your lungs have recovered well!
I have missed reading things here, although I have to admit I have been a little envious of that long vacation (not the sick leave though). :)
Posted by: challenge | January 16, 2007 11:03 AM