What comes in threes?

They say that bad luck, good luck, wheels on a tricycle, little piggies, blind mice, stooges and amigos all come in threes. Heck – I’ve even heard that only three floating cords are used to play every AC/DC song.

If I hadn’t of woken up on Wednesday morning I’m sure that I would have had a fabulous day. Instead, as I opened my eyes, stirred and started to fang for that first cup of freshly brewed coffee – I woke up to a shower of threes. And let me assure you that it wasn’t to the tune of “Thunderstruck“.

1. Malaria. Some how managed to make it into work but pulled the pin at around 9am after almost passing out a couple of times. Went home and was semi conscious – tossing and turning – sweating – delirious and feverish – for the next 24 hours. Eli went and got me some anti-malarials in the morning and as far as the big “M” – I’ve been improving ever since.
2. A swollen right inner thigh. This was a bugger because it’s been painful to walk since. When I visited the doctor on Friday – he told me that due to an existing cut on the outer part of my bottom right leg – that my lymph nodes had reacted to the Malaria parasite. Doc knows best and I was put on a course of antibiotics. Throughout the remainder of Friday and then Saturday the swelling increased plus a rather large blister started to form on the back of my leg. At its peak it was almost the size of a tennis ball. Coincidentally the critter burst whilst I was talking to Mum over Skype. As of Sunday night the bottom part of my right leg – remains swollen – bruised and crater left by the burst blister is literally an open wound. Needless to stay that I’ve been soaking it, cleaning it and dressing it since. White folks do not suffer infections too well around the tropics. I believe the antibiotics have kicked in with the condition of my leg stabilising.
3. Last but not least… my personal laptop (Toshiba Satellite) would not boot up. Further diagnosis suggests that a new motherboard is probably needed. Sunday evening and I’m up and running again after partitioning my work laptop with Ubuntu 10.10 (my favourite OS). On a positive note my personal backup strategy stood up to the disaster and in the end I only lost two days worth of emails. Solid as !!

To make matters slightly more physical I now have a dose of gout in my right toe.

Part of me has felt like curling up in a ball somewhere – sucking my thumb and singing out “I want my Mummy… I want my Mummy…”. Life does suck at times and there’s not much that can be done other then to cop it. Here’s a slightly more positive and perhaps unattached perspective on the events from the past few days:

• Some surrender has come back into my life.
• With less attachment to circumstances and a mind more open to alternatives.
• An opportunity to setup/fiddle with Ubuntu on another laptop!
• Have had more time with Eli.
• Managed to fit in some much needed rest (had two days off work).
• Realised the value for when good health is there.
• Evidence that my personal data backup strategy is solid!

Rub-a-dub-dub three men in a tub!