Came back today to find two boxes in my room, I knew I was getting something from my Aramex box. The best part are that these items slowly trickle in and its fun opening them up even though it isn’t a complete surprise. This time it turns out one of these boxes was delivered to the wrong person even though my name was written clearly on it.

• Sigma EX 10-20mm Wide Angle Lens
• Grendaizer Statue
• Spiderman Symbiote Bust

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This throat thing has developed to be really annoying, I sleep at odd times due to the strength of the antibiotics. Went to the dentist for the third time this week to have this tooth work done, and there is a horrible after taste. For a whole 48 hours I couldn’t taste anything but that horrible taste, as if there is Clorox in my mouth, and that makes you nauseous.

In the first stages of this infection it was pretty bad but after Mubarak Hospital and the new antibiotics it was improving at about 15 – 20% rate, but now that has dropped down to 3-5% rate. At least the lump under my chin has shrunk, but sometimes in the morning it gets worse but thats the course that I’m faced with. The most annoying thing I think is this type of pain, its like a constant pain throughout the day, like a  constant beep just behind the eye which causes a headache and it originates from the jaw, its a strange description. Its like there is a bunch of marbles stuck on the left side of my jaw under my tongue. These meds are doing the job but the side affects can be felt, and nausea and keeping food down is an issue, but I’m hoping this will end soon since it has been sometime now.

 

I woke this morning with a throbbing pain in my head, I thought that I was done with the tooth abscess after the dental work, and for the most part it was the case.

Until in the morning I couldn’t open my mouth let alone talk. The gland grew to a huge degree, I took the meds and waited for an hour for it to take affect but there was no improvement. I called up my friend and we went to Embarak Hospital, with a few X-Rays it turns out the the procedure was good but the bacteria was working on my gland. At this point they said no surgery was needed so they put me on an IV with two types of antibiotics and one pain killer. Its really sad to see the state of things in Embarak Hospital and the lack of facilities they have. Some of the X-Ray machines were here since before the 1990. 

I’m just happy that the meds took affect and were helping the pain stop for a little while. The inflamation has decreased a little and I’m feeling a little dizzy, but at least I can talk now unlike in the morning. 

 

Well the situation turned out to be a little worse then I expected. The infection reached pretty far and I have been taking strong dosages of the antibiotics, under Doc’s supervision of course, and the infection has gone back to the main area but damn this thing is persistent.

Now its the turn of the dentist to take a suction hose to my jaw and take it all out. What drove me nuts was the air pressure on the plane on the ride back, even when taking the pain killers it helps but only for so long. I have to say this pain killer is strong but it also causes nausea. Now that I have been on a 5 day course of antibiotics I do hope they can do something about it right away, and I don’t care what they have to do but I want to clean out the problem.

The original problem was due to a botched up route canal that was done in Kuwait years ago and this is the result of out it.

To be exact, that picture shows EXACTLY how I looked when I woke up in the morning. I was worse off then when I went to sleep at night, I couldn’t swallow and it hurt like hell. My left side was all puffed up and my neck muscle was killing me so that wasn’t helping. I called the doc around 10 am and was going to pass by around 12pm, and he remembered when I showed him the lump the first time. This time it was huge lump and my neck was killing me, it was hard to get up because it took a lot of energy to move my big head, you never realize how heavy your head is until this happens. At this point in time I can’t swallow anything, it practically hurts to move, and the towel I had wrapped around my neck was pretty damp from my sweat. At least I don’t have a fever anymore and I was happy when he came along. 

He prescribed the following:  

• Augmentin (Antibiotics)
• Prednisolone (Anti-inflamation)
• Di-Antalvic (Pain Killer)

 

So we have pretty much been back and worth between the docs and the hotel. The weather is relatively nice, but somehow I managed to three things all at one time. I have a problem, I tend not to go to docs or dentists, until its too late. I have had a root canal problem from ages ago, I had four done in Kuwait and all four were screwed up, in the states I managed to fix three but I ignored the fourth one because it required a lot of work. As of two days ago my gland got inflamed because of that root canal problem so it looks like somebody punched me “lightly” under my chin, I got a neck sprain on the left side, the same side. Its painful as hell, I put some deep heat, and I can’t do anything about the infalmation, and I don’t want to see a doc in this hospital. And they took my temp for I go to sleep, I was shivering a bit but not from the cold and turn out my temp is a 38.8, told them I will take two tylenol, some deep heat and sleep it off. Its my neck that hurts like hell and I feel like a robot that can’t move  around correctly since my joints are all stiff, I keep thinking “Domo Arigato Mr Robato!!!”. Hoping it will get better after I got a good nights sleep. 

Every person has a pair of sunglasses that they can’t do without. I have had my Oakley’s for about three years now, I bought it from the Oakley store in Covent Garden in 2005, it was just when I was roaming about. I don’t like looking for a new pair of glasses since they usually break easily, and these Oakleys have lasted a long time. I lost them for over 10 days now, and then suddenly I found them in a plastic bag next to my computer. I was very happy to find it since I really don’t like looking for a new pair of sun glasses and when its sunny outside it was annoying to drive without a pair of sun glasses. 

Usually during Ramadaan everyone wants to sleep in so they won’t be too hungry during the day. My plan was to sleep in on Friday morning but I woke up right at 8:00 and things went from there. It was an interesting fun weekend but we were thirsty half way through the day.

Friday:

• 8:00 am on computer
• 8:45 am call from K and M
• M meets me up at 10:30 and we are heading to Shuweikh
• 10:45 B calls his car broke down so we drive to the Gulf Road & 3rd Ring Road
• Wait about an hour for the two truck to get there
• We were thirsty as hell and sweating like crazy
• 11:45 am went to M’s house with the tow truck to drop off the car there
• 12:15 went to M’s house which is being built and checked out the network and electrical setup, needs some work. Beautiful house, and nice garage
• 1 pm went to Shuwaikh
• 2 pm back to Mishref but headed to K’s place to find him and S working on their car
• 3 pm got home thirsty and hungry, and I jumped in the shower
• And the events that took place normally after futoor, but the time until futoor I was too hungry and thirsty to sleep.
• 6:05 pm futoor
• 6:05 pm to 7:45pm with the family
• 7:45 pm heading towards Dewaneya to beat the ridiculous traffic around 8:30 pm, instead of a 15 minute drive it becomes a 45 minute drive.
• 8:10 pm to 10:45 pm in family dewaneya where people were visiting and lots of extended family to see
• 11:00 pm got to K’s place and tried watching Zoohan while eating some meat shawarma
• 1:00 am fell asleep

Saturday:

• 7:30 am, I’m wide awake again for some reason. So I started working on my computer
• 8:15 am, I get a call from K and he is awake as well, so we decided to meet up
• 9:00 am I’m at the BMW Dealership and its relatively empty and I took the car in as well as complained about a few things such as the Navi DVD being missing
• 9:30 am, K picked me up
• 9:40 am, we are at Platform looking for metal shelving and a torque wrench
• 10:00 am, we are at Abyatt looking for the same, didn’t find it here either
• 10:20 am, we went to our friend’s work since he works in Shuweikh and on Saturday and made a mess of his place
• 10:40 am, we get a call from M and his car now broke down but pretty close to his but still he sweated like crazy
• 11:00 am, we went to Autociti and took a look at their cars, there is an Aston Martin Race Car in the basement as well as a McLaren SLR 722 which haven’t sold yet. Then I touched pretty much every car their just because I couldn’t resist the urge with sign saying don’t touch. Who ever is making the business decisions there is a nut job
• 11:25 am, we are Alghanim Electronics looking at stuff and K picked up a few things which were to be delivered
• 12:15 pm, we went to S’s place to finalize a few details that we are planning and then left
• 12:45 pm, tow truck came to M’s place and we help load up his car which was taken to the dealership
• 1:15 pm, we went to M’s house which is being built to talk to the Electrical Guy and find out the blundering that took place with the networking and house to fix it
• 2:30 pm, we headed home and I was hungry as hell and thirsty as hell like the day before
• 2:45 pm, lounging on the computer for the period watching episode after episode of BattleStar Galactica
• 6:05 pm, futoor at last
• 8:05 pm, fell asleep
• 10:30 pm, I woke up
• 10:45 pm, Got me some Strawberry Cheese Cake from Baskin Robins and chilled at home
• 1:45 am, Fell asleep

I think its a pretty active couple of days for people fasting, and I think if other places were open we would would have gone there as well. I could pile up some statistics over our activities over the past couple of days.

I was sitting at my desk watching some tv shows and I kept hearing some strange sounds. A crackling sound every few seconds, I kept looking forward to it but I couldn’t find it. As I was walking around I found a spark and it was the laptop charger head piece that was sparking up. Luckily I got to it before anything else happened or a fire lit, it would have been a disastor.

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I have been watching this show nonstop for the past couple of days. There is a term they use instead of F$#& which is FRAK, they keep saying it over and over. As I was driving today to meet up with family, as usual our streets are filled with traffic so as I am trying my temper is always shorter on the road and as I was getting annoyed by people moving into the left lane driving at half the speed limit, I shout out “You Fraking Bastard”, and who said a little road rage doesn’t feel good.