Ow.

I just thought I’d post a public notice here — I apologize if I’ve been slow to respond to any email or support ticket you’ve posted (the ones that are sitting in my queue, that is.) In January, I got a “stye” in my eye — basically a bacterial infection of an eyelash that caused a lot of swelling and pain. Unfortunately, the bacteria doesn’t seem to have gone away, and now I have a boil in my nose. This is basically an extremely painful infection of a nose hair follicle. I’ve been drugged up on Advil for about 3 days. The boil has also caused a lot of swelling around my nose and upper lip, so I look kind of weird. 🙁

Today things got a lot worse, with dizziness, nausea, severe toothache in the teeth near the boil, and what seemed like a fever (my body was having trouble regulating temperature, at least.) I’ve also felt sick, weak, and tired the entire day. Since the boil is inside my nose, and it’s started to cause serious problems, I made a doctor appointment. The appointment is at 8:30AM tomorrow (so now you know I’m feeling really bad; I’m getting up before 9AM on a Saturday to go to the doctor!)

Hopefully the doctor can lance (drain) the infection tomorrow and give me some antibiotics so this type of infection stops happening. The antibiotics should clear the bacteria up and prevent further infections–at least for a while.

Anyway, I’ve been feeling terrible all day, and I apologize for not responding to the giant pile of emails and support tickets I have. It’s hard to type, fight off nausea, and ignore a toothache all at the same time. So… I apologize.

I’m going back to sleep now.