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Interrupt drug induced comedy act (I feel for you, I really do. Need assistance?) for a little update on Georgian situation: Russian Fat Lady still ain't singing -Kat
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Overheard in a doctor's office yesterday: "What is there in Mr Donovan's records that indicated to you that he was a clinical masochist and you were going to let him *enjoy* his agonizing pain?"
Heh. The drugs they started me on yesterday (colchicine and prednisone) came with interesting instructions. "Take the colchicine two tabs at a time, until the explosive diarrhea or vomiting starts, then back off to one tab every four hours." No. Really.
"You should know the colchicine is a poison, btw, and is being considered for use in cancer chemotherapy because it kills your cells." The doc asked if Beth and I were trying to create a little Armorer or Armorerette - "Well, because it's going to kill off your sperm for a month or so..." Heh again.
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Here's another picture of that cute little driver's training Wiesel I put up yesterday. Behind it is the equivalent vehicle for the Leopard tank. Heartless Libertarian suggested yesterday this might be near Baumholder. 
I've got a pic somewhere of a US-style (we usually don't go for mods like this) training tank. -the Armorer
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Some of you send the nicest sympathy cards...
Complete with a pic of the new addition to the family!
Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. So here's some gun pr0n. My first purchase from the CMP, a rack grade M1 Carbine made by IBM in 1943. I tried for a service grade but they ran out.
There are more of these including the paratrooper carbine as well as sniper Garands that were received from the Greeks that will be available
next year.
Cheers!
-Brad
Woot! -the Armorer
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How I joined the Russian Cyber War - Kat (Dunno if this is what Kat was intending to link to - but this link works. -the Armorer)
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Er...as I noted to someone yesterday, the last time someone made a mutual defense pact with Poland, we had a world war- Russia: Poland risks attack because of US missiles - Kat
I have a garden gnome smashing my foot with a hammer 24/7 and I can't walk unaided. If it turns to chronic gout, my kidneys go south. I have a list of symptoms, that if they show up - to immediately call the doc.
I believe I know the risks, and the drug doesn't affect every one in the same way. Truth is - I'm willing to take the risks because my current reality is unsupportable.
And if that doesn't work, you can always go look at the picture I put up on my blog today of Thomas's latest injury. He fought a rock.. and the rock won.
*shudder*
My mother needs an occasional dose of prednisone, the alternative being complete inability to walk. Sometimes, ya gotta go with the lesser evil.
...And it sounds like the colchicine is an even worse necessary evil. Ugh.
My sympathies, and I hope the stuff does work for you.
Oh, probably because I can't walk...
My sister suffers from auto-immune diseases which, interestingly, are also thrown into the seemingly-random collection of conditions treated by rheumatologists and for which, sometimes, prednisone is the only answer to a flare up.
Based on what you've mentioned, a ten-day cycle sounds perfectly reasonable in your situation. My sister's had to take it for several months at a time more than once which is, of course, a different story in terms of the long-term health risks.
I predict you'll be feeling better soon :-)
Sana, sana, culito de rana, si no sana hoy, sanará mañana.
Sana, sana, culito de gato, si no sana ya, sanará en un rato.
Heal, heal (with a) little froggie's butt, if it doesn't heal today, it shall heal tomorrow.
Heal, heal (with a) little cat's butt, if it doesn't heal right now, it shall heal in a litttle while.
I don't know whether there are many frogs to be found at Catle Argghhh's Manse, but one thing I know: Cats, there are a plenty. Surely Barnacle wouldn't mind rubbing his little behind on Massa John's foot, as balm to his ailements.
What made me really think Baumholder was the MLRS in the background of yesterday's pic. One of those buggers nearly ran some of my troops over back in '99, tear assin' through our training area.
This looks like a cousin to the Wiesel in John's photo, and with a tag number of Y-820-857, compared to the one in John's photo, Y-820-880, they may be stationed at the same place:
http://www.panzer-modell.de/referenz/in_detail/fahrschul_wiesel/fs_wiesel.htm