Another eerie connection between Mike Sawin and James Tiberius Kirk
I've been to the doctor's office five times in the last seven days. I've been prodded, poked, probed and examined to within an inch of my life.

They don't know what's wrong with me yet. I had an infection that has been taken care of, but there is still the matter of shooting pains that make me whimper like a dog that's been kicked.

I had some terrible fevers, the shakes, exhaustion and the feeling that my brain shrunk a little and was rolling around loose inside my skull. But all of that is gone. I'm still tired a lot, but that's normal when I reach the end of my seven-day work cycle. I'll catch up on sleep in a day or two, and hopefully that will be that.

Tomorrow I go in for a CAT scan. Hopefully, they'll find whatever it is that is causing the pain and I can get rid of it.

Or maybe just live with it. I don't know.

But I'll know more tomorrow, and at least my mind will be at ease a little.

----

Remember on the original Star Trek where Kirk would be fighting an alien or something and Bones would shoot him up with a Vitamin B12 shot to revive him and give him some energy?

Well, just like that, I'm getting those exact same shots. It turns out that like a lot of people who've had the bypass surgery, I'm going to need those shots -- as well as a iron supplement -- so I don't get anemic.

Apparently, this is part of the health problems I've been having lately. Low on iron, super low on B12.

Another eerie connection between me and Captain Kirk.