{"id":3951,"date":"2014-10-01T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2014-10-01T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:29:41","slug":"a-most-hokey-update-or-all-i-hear-is-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2014\/10\/01\/a-most-hokey-update-or-all-i-hear-is-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Hokey Update, or: “All I hear is Burn…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blghowdydoughnuts\"Well, Howdy Doughnuts everyone!<\/p>\n

It’s been about two and a half weeks since I last surfaced, but don’t think for a moment that I’ve forgotten about you. Almost the opposite, actually. While it’s true that my four-part Disneyland recap kind of blew any remaining writing instincts clear out of the studio, there’s been a metric bushel of ideas bouncing around my head that I wanted to bring to the blog.<\/p>\n

And then… it happened.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t completely forthcoming about Disneyland. On my last night in California, after a lovely fried chicken dinner at the Plaza Inn right off Main Street, I started noticing that I wasn’t feeling… right. Kind of cold, light-headed, almost a little weak-ish. I noticed I was feeling slightly feverish as the night wore on, so we turned in early and got ready to leave the next morning.<\/p>\n

By the time I was on the flight home, the fever was full-borne awful. I always run a little bit cold, but I was shivering like a human icicle while burning up like a raging firestorm. The weird thing was… there were no other symptoms. No runny nose, congestion, joint or muscle aches, sore throats, nausea, stomach issues… nothing. Just a fever and its ensuing fatigue. We made it home, I unpacked, changed, took some Tylenol and hopped into bed.<\/p>\n

The next morning the fever had mostly broken, but Phase 2 had begun: a full-on ulcerative colitis flare-up of the worst kind. We’re talking cold sweats, achy joints, cramps, wild rushes to the bathroom, bleeding… the works.<\/p>\n

I’ll make a ponderously long story short and simply say that it got worse before I got better, then got slightly worse again, got better, got a little worse again, and finally brings me to today, where I’m mostly doing just fine. It certainly made my September marathon training problematic, to say the absolute least, but I managed to continue (mostly) successfully with it (albeit modified from the original schedule). I doubled up on my meds and changed our training routes to ensure an available restroom at least every 3 miles.<\/p>\n

Except that one time during a 17-miler when the available restroom at Mile 5 was far, far from being open. Grr.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in the midst of all this — plus a HUGE impending Go-Live at work starting on October 6th and continuing until who knows when — I decided to take a little break from updating the blog. But still, I’m back, and committed to keeping my goofy block of the intertubez as active as I can. And there’s a LOT of stuff coming down the pike, and I hope you’ll stick around for them.<\/p>\n

\"baabib\"For instance… I just received my bib for the 2014 Boston Half Marathon in the mail yesterday, which means my dream of running a BAA event– even just for a half marathon — is really gonna happen, and just 11 days away from this writing. Boston is still my favorite city in the country, and while I’ve returned to Beantown a few times since graduating college there in 1992, I’ve yet to come back in the autumn. And I certainly have never raced there, which makes this event even more exciting for me. I’m sure I’ll be blabbing all about the experience in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n

There’s also some more album reviews to come, as well as my return to the Miami Beach Halloween Half<\/a> and my take on the Flanigans 10K (Free beer? Free RIBS? Bring it!). And November is going to be absolutely insane. Did I mention I was able to score not one but TWO last-minute bibs for the Avengers 5K? Well I just did. Huzzah!<\/p>\n

Anyway, thanks for your patience and please stick around. So much good stuff to come, so cool that it burns me. In a good <\/em>way, not a UC way. This disease may be incurable and both a literal and metaphorical pain in the ass, but like hell I’ll ever let it slow me down. Here’s the video:<\/p>\n