For the last couple of weeks I've been busily battling some sort of virus. I've had everything from sore joints to a chest infection to headaches. It's been barrels of fun, as you can imagine.

Normally when I get sick I'm down for a couple of days at most, then I get back up, shake myself off and keep going. But whatever I have now was bad enough for me to head to the dreaded doctor last Tuesday to get checked out - a rare treat in itself. While I was there I thought: "What the hell, I'll get them to run a full gamut of tests on my precious bodily fluids and see what comes up."

Point of Interest: They no longer give out lollypops when piercing your skin with syringe needles. I feel that this is something that should be looked at in the near future.

It took two days to get my results back (that brings us to today, if you're keeping track). The doctor ran me through the results, pointing out that all the numbers looked good. They looked good to me too. By good I mean indecipherable. Three columns of data. Column A: obscure acronyms, column B: obscure line of numbers and column C: what I imagined was the theoretical maximum. While perusing the list one item caught my eye:

GGT 50 >51

I questioned the doctor on this and he assured me that my GGT was fine even though it was boarding on what I saw was the deadly limit of whatever GGT was. He was very reassuring, but wouldn't elaborate on what GGT meant, only mentioning that it was a concern when the patient (i.e. me) drinks excessivly.

Now I like to think I can and do drink a lot. It's not something I'm especially proud of - I don't holds parades to inform the general public nor do I have it printed on a t-shirt - it's just  something I do. Seeing that GGT number (and the others for that matter) hovering in nominal range made me happy in a way that no medication can. It only reinforced my ideal that I'm mildly indestructible.

Of course there is still the question of this mystery virus. The doctor final suggestion was that I let the virus run it's course and that testing to determine what it is would just be a waste of time. I can only assume there's been a rush on agar jelly coming in to Xmas or something.

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