this week took some heroics

Jack Stirs The Earl Grey., originally uploaded by jimbodownie.

Here are some highlights in objective bullet point form:

• Get a little ill from over eating eggs with cheese and tea with milk.

• Continue to have stomach problems.

• Decide half-way through second show of 2-show day that if I continue I may vomit onstage.

• Get home and expel the entire contents of my GI track from both ends.

• Have early morning doctor's appointment; give blood, urine and the promise of stool.

• Take 3 specimen cups, Pepto-Bismol and Imodium over to a commercial callback not having consumed food for 18 hours.

• Sleep for 12 hours.

• Fill cups and place in freezer and fridge.

• Miss performance for the first time in my professional career.

• Sleep for 12 more hours.

• Perform first show of 2-show day for roughly 300 patrons.

• Wait to see if second show gets canceled.

• Perform un-canceled second show of 2-show day for 139 patrons.

• Applaud audience at curtain call.

• Stay the night at a hotel courtesy of the theater.

• Dig car out of snow.