Hey everyone, I'm back! That ... was a thing. I had only been home a few days before I developed a NASTY upper respiratory infection. I had to limp back to the doctor to get that taken care of. He had to put me on a hydrocodone cough medicine because I was coughing up infected grossness violently enough that there was concern I could blow out my newly repaired hernia. The fever only broke last Friday.

Needless to say, the hernia operation wasn't so bad by itself. Doubled up with the really bad upper respiratory infection though made it quite a horrible week last week.