Seasons Greetings, Moles!
If the Oklahoma news cycle agrees with it, we're going to take things a bit slow for the rest of the year and pump out our standard mix of year-end content.
That starts today with our annual year-end countdown, where we take a month-by-month look at the top TLO articles of 2021. Today we'll get started with a look back at January.
For me, personally, this month was pretty bad, but also kind of good.
The Bad: On January 6th, while most of America was at home watching the Capitol Riots on TV, I was stuck in bed with a fever, chills, and terrible stomach pains that felt like an alien was trying to punch its way out of my belly. By that night, I was in the ER, being poked and prodded and getting X-rays.
Eventually, I was diagnosed – and as I learned later in the year, possibly misdiagnosed – with Diverticulitis, a stomach condition where little pockets in your colon get inflamed and infected and make you sick as hell. The ER doc gave me strong antibiotics that made me feel even sicker, told me to stick to a liquid diet for a few days, and a low-fiber diet for the next month, and sent me home. For the next month, I involuntarily abstained from all booze, fast food and desserts, and basically lived on a bland, low-fiber, low-fat diet consisting of soups, rice and baked potatoes. Good times.