I guess if you’re gonna play in Texas… sooner or later you’re gonna get shot! That’s right…Shot! Stay here long enough and you’re gonna get shot! … it’s a fact of Texas life. It took me 4 months to feel the awful pain of that well known Texas tradition… and it finally happen today… I got shot in the but-tox… yet, right in the old keester. And I gotta say… please excuse the language, I tried to clean it up… “Damn, that hurt like hell !” So I left the doctors office with not only the worst sinus infection I’ve ever had, but also with a decided limp. I’ve been shot a lot of places… but never in Texas. The immediate effect was somewhat beneficial… my butt hurt so bad that I was at least for a few moments able to forget how bad my face, eyes, and ears hurt from the sinus infection. With new Rx scripts meds in hand, I limped to the pharmacy. After 7 days of 875mg of Augmentin yielded no positive results, it was now replaced with Azithromycin, hydrocodone, fluticasone, and a shot in the buttocks of steroids that should make me feel like Joe Montana in his prime. I say that because we were at the doctors office in what Shelly calls the “Joe Room”. Photos of Joe etc and a photo of our doctor and Joe. A great room for Shelly… but… ”butt”… not such great memories for… that’s where I got shot in the butt…. literally. Now several hours later and my lower back side has recovered, somewhat… and I’m hopeful that the new meds will clear up the infection real soon. I remember a few days ago when my face hurt so bad… I said … “if I’m gonna die…. just shoot me now”! 
Funny how those little thoughts and the little things we say kiddingly have a way of becoming reality. One thing I haven’t lost during this whole sinus thing is a sense of humor… somewhat dampened… somewhat tattered… but still there at least for some small percentage of the time. The original treatment must have worked a least a little… I’m going house crazy for being cooped up several days. So here’s to getting better real soon. Hope getting shot in the butt was worth it. No doubt from this time forward I’ll always think of my experience and that of Mr. Gump’s… since we both got shot in the But-tox! … and I didn’t even get any ice cream! Vanilla is both our favorite flavor! [hint…hint]. Later yall!
