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(Originally posted on the website Continuum…)<\/p>\n
Zero, zip, zilch…<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how much I\u2019m writing tonight. I\u2019m tired. I have pneumonia. I don\u2019t feel like writing. I think I\u2019ll watch a movie instead. Maybe I\u2019ll watch “Pulp Fiction” since I\u2019m in a Tarantino mood after watching “Kill Bill 1” with my friend Suzy today.<\/p>\n
Actually, what I\u2019m doing is cheating. (Not something a zaddik should do, I know. Not even one wearing a zucchetto. Though one would question the appropriateness of a zaddik wearing a zucchetto.) In my zeal to get started with the AlphaBytes project for June, I am writing an article and posting it today! Ha! It\u2019s still only May! The goal of the project is to write a journal entry for each of the letters of the alphabet. Being as zany as I am, I thought I\u2019d start with the last letter instead of the first. So, you can thank the letter Z, affectionately known as “zed” to some of you outside of America, for this entry.<\/p>\n
Not wanting to stay up too later, let me just write a few words since I\u2019m here. I promise not to use the words zucchini, zebra or zygote. I will, however, listen to Frank Zappa while writing this. As a cultural note, I must say that zuppa inglese sounds absolutely delicious, especially the rum part.<\/p>\n
Change of plans… Let\u2019s listen to Warren Zevon<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n Like I said above, I have pneumonia. WHAT? How did that happen?? Exzactly my thoughts! (Slipped that one in there. Heh.) You might remember that I mentioned having bronchitis back in December. The doctor that treated me then, the one who looked like Groucho Marx (not Zeppo), said that I was also experiencing bronchospasms. I had a lot of wheezing.<\/p>\n The breathing difficulties never went away. I was always out of breath, sometimes receiving both the concern and ridicule of those around me as I huffed and puffed up the stairs. So I went to the doctors again in March. Groucho\u2019s partner thought that I might be developing asthma. So he gave me some asthma medicine and told me to get a chest x-ray, even though he didn\u2019t expect anything to show up on the x-ray. Since he didn\u2019t seem too concerned, and I\u2019m a big procrastinator, I didn\u2019t go for the x-ray until mid-April.<\/p>\n When I called for more asthma medicine a week ago, the nurse informed me that my x-ray showed that I had pneumonia in my left lung. Say what??? “Didn\u2019t anyone call you, Mr. Snyder? The doctor wanted you on antibiotics a month ago!” No, no one called me! I heard zero, zip, zilch!<\/p>\n Well, I picked up the antibiotics, Zithromax, as a matter of fact. Today was the tenth day after starting the medication. Guess what. I\u2019m still a wheezing, hacking, huffing, puffing one-lunged tired sucker! I called the doctor on Friday to see what I should do next. He was on vacation and his receptionist told me not to worry about it and just call next week sometime. I don\u2019t think so. This sucker\u2019s going to a different doctor.<\/p>\n You know, a half-year of not being able to breathe properly is enough. The fatigue is driving me crazy. I am not the kind of person who can simply shut down and rest. I don\u2019t want to miss anything. There are too many things to do in the world. I always say that I wish I could just go without sleep completely. Who needs it? I\u2019ll sleep when I\u2019m dead. Well, under the circumstances, if I don\u2019t rest now, I might be dead sooner than I want to be.<\/p>\n But what did I do this weekend? On Saturday, I drove the kids around to work and such, something I do nearly every day now. Then I took a drive to Merril Creek Reservoir, intending to walk around for a few hours and take a few photos. That turned out to be a zoological wonder! The place was swarming with cicadas. It was unbelievable! But that\u2019s a story for the letter C. After a few hours of walking among the billions of bugs, I went home and fell asleep for a few hours. That is completely out of character for me!<\/p>\n On Sunday, I took Suzy to Merril Creek to witness the cicadas. We ended up hiking the five-mile trail around the perimeter of the reservoir. Believe it or not, I made it all the way on just half a functioning lung. Later, I fell asleep again. Exhausted.<\/p>\n Today, Memorial Day, I drove kids to jobs, picked one up an hour later after Burger King lost electrical power. I did manage to take it easy for most of the day though. Our little town had a Memorial Day parade. I haven\u2019t decided to write about that under the letter M for Memorial Day, P for parade, or F for the whole 15 minutes that the parade lasted. Maybe I should use B for boring. Other than that, I did some laundry and watched “Kill Bill.”<\/p>\n Speaking of movies… I gotta go. Warren is almost done singing.<\/p>\n My apologies to ZZ Top<\/a> for not mentioning them in this article.<\/p>\n (Just out of curiosity… Do you consider yourself to be zoophagous?)<\/p>\n I guess “Zero, Zip, Zilch” wasn\u2019t exactly fitting for this article. I should have called it zomething else. <\/p>\n (Originally posted on the website Continuum…) Zero, zip, zilch… That\u2019s how much I\u2019m writing tonight. I\u2019m tired. I have pneumonia. I don\u2019t feel like writing. I think I\u2019ll watch a movie instead. Maybe I\u2019ll watch “Pulp Fiction” since I\u2019m in a Tarantino mood after watching “Kill Bill 1” with my friend Suzy today. 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<\/a> An AlphaBytes<\/a> Project – The Letter Z<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"