OCTOBER: ROUND TWO

October 1st I was home. , October 2nd I flew to NYC for a PR trip. My nose still wasn't great, but I was reasonably active, to the point that I was pretty good on my feet in presentations and was able play golf (in a perfect world I could blame my inability to consistently whack a golf club far or straight on my sinus issues, but, the world isn't perfect and I can't lie, my golf game sucks). I flew home on the 9th and was okay for two days, and then, it hit, again, worse than the last time. A major infiltration of sinus infection that was insistent on staying with me, rent free, for the remainder of 2010.

We had major product launch meetings the week of the 18th, and I was completely useless. As usual, the team did a fantastic job.

By this time, my eyesight was noticeably deteriorating, and my teeth hurt all the time. I went back to the PCP doctor on October 28th, and I had lost my voice. He essentially said that it was the same thing that I had in September, and prescribed Augmenten as well as another pack of steroids. Halloween weekend was on it's way to being yet another holiday (if you call Halloween a holiday, which I really don't, but maybe that is because I don't have kids), spent doing nothing. The only thing for me worse than not doing something is doing nothing. I think that was a circular sentence.

On Sunday the 31st, our tradition of hanging out at the big table, entrenched in a hyper competitive game of SNLTrivial Pursuit, pausing only to answer the door for costumed little kids, was completely ruined by my stinking sinuses. The game tradition may have been ruined, but I took care of the trick or treaters, due to my need to keep our home "egg free". I was perched near the door from 5-8:30pm with generous volumes of delicious treats specifically designed to promote tooth decay, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Seven years running and still no eggs on the house or toilet paper on the trees. We probably are the only house in Temecula that gives out miniature Lindt bars and Toblerones. Well worth the investment, because last time I checked, egged paint can only be corrected with an entirely new exterior paint job. Sinus infection or no sinus infection, I was keeping our house safe.

And that was October.