Wrote my post yesterday about going in for an upper G.I. endoscopy, hit “publish,” then watched as my entire blog disappeared.
“You ready to go?” asked the Manly Fireplug.
“Um…”
“Um what?
“My blog is gone.”
“You have surgery.”
“But my blog is gone.”
He talked me into the car, though I brought my laptop and attempted to find my blog again in the waiting room. Also in the surgery prep room. No luck. I woke up about an hour later with a two-page print-out:
You have mild inflammation in the stomach, the esophagus (where you swallow) looked very inflamed and there was a small ulcer at the bottom of the esophagus as well. You have a hiatal hernia, a benign condition that may predispose to reflux disease. A biopsy was taken. I will notify you of the result in 4-10 days.
I waited around for someone to wheel me down to the lobby to meet the Fireplug, but eventually I got bored and walked down on my own.
“Are you in pain?” the Fireplug asked in the car.
“No. But my blog is still gone.”
Back home I ate for the first time in 20 hours and attempted to find my blog. Chalk this up to another consequence of depression: hackers will infiltrate your site via old plugins and third-party software that you just don’t have the energy to update.
16 tedious, screen-squinting hours later, I got my blog back. Hi!
Also I was right about an upper G.I. endoscopy having nothing to do with Channing Tatum.