My Humps

Actually, my hump. Singular. I woke up on Monday with my left elbow mysteriously swollen. By the time I had ruled out the possibility that it was just a bruise and went to the urgent care facility on Wednesday, my left elbow resembled a reddish, warm baseball.

The doctor surmised that it was an infection caused by some surface bacteria that may have snuck in through a crack in the skin around my elbow. (I suspect that said bacteria came from those damn yoga mats from the gym. "Unclean, unclean!") A prescription of antibiotics and a super-emollient cream has reduced the swelling, if not the reddishness, so that now I only appear to have a mild case of elbow herpes. I hope to be back to normal by Monday.

Object lesson: this is why the gays are always telling you to MOISTURIZE.