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The bad place

I haven't written in a while. I've been feeling pretty terrible. A few things happened at about the same time that left me mostly confined to my bed. My hemorrhoid came back, and then it clotted. It was excruciating, and I started taking Percocet. I stopped getting out of bed except to use the bathroom because it was too painful to walk. Maybe that's why I didn't notice that I had a new infection in my blood. Some sort of resistant klebsiella bacteria. The infectious disease team seemed kind of excited that they had to order in the antibiotics from somewhere else because it had only been approved this year and they hadn't had a chance to use it yet. I would tell you the name but it's really long and I can't pronounce or even spell it. Then they got really excited when they said that if this bacteria mutates again, they'll have to use an antibiotic that was only approved two weeks ago and hasn't yet been used in the state of Colorado, or probably at