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I'm going to keep this short because it really hurts to type. Saturday afternoon I scared Lola inadvertently and she clawed up my right hand pretty badly. It hurt like hell but I got it cleaned and bandaged and went ahead with the performance anyway (I'll post about that later). As the night wore on the hand started hurting considerably more. By Sunday morning it was red and swollen from my knuckles to my wrist and the pain was worse. So today I called in and went to the doctor. Seems I have cat scratch disease which is basically just a bacterial infection that tends to aim for the nearest lymph nodes and then takes you out. We're hoping that between the antibiotics and warm compresses it won't spread any farther than the tendons of my hand that it's already infecting. I'm not supposed to be doing anything with it but that's just not reasonable when you live alone with 4 cats so I'm doing the absolute minimum (though it's killing me, the house is such a mess!).

So aside from picking Aelf up at the airport tomorrow night, assume that if I have plans with you over the next few days they're canceled I'm afraid. I intend to do as little as possible over the next few days and hope the redness, swelling and pain recede a bit.