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You might be happy to hear that my recent colonoscopy results were very good -- my specialist described my insides as looking like a normal person's, and that I "should keep doing whatever I'm doing." Heartening news, from a health and colitis perspective. Diet and exercise? Or just keeping on my medication (150 mg of azathioprine a day)? I avoided heavy drinking last year, so perhaps that helped too. I guess I'm also allowing myself to believe that my colitis isn't going to bother me for some time; that would be sweet. But yeah, I'd forgotten what an ordeal the preparation for the procedure was -- drinking that vile, sickly sweet liquid every 10 minutes. Ugh, I get queasy just thinking about it. Sure, there's a certain satisfaction in cleaning out one's insides but that's tempered with light-headedness, weakness and hunger. And the flavor of that wretched stuff! "Vanilla pineapple." Good news, and yet I remain dim and uninspired, dow...

Ok, I'm going to see if I can't keep my comments and such to under 40 minutes. Urk, that's seems rather long.. let's try for 25 minutes. The bouts were 3 minutes, with bare feet (!) on a school soccer field. It was rather hard ground, with lots of tough brush, not the soft grass you might think. A slight breeze, no direct sunlight -- pretty good conditions. [ Fight 1: Reg vs Brian (1/3) ][ 2/3 ] [ 3/3 ] Brian has lots of pep and energy, with a pretty good, fast sidekick. I also like his footwork, and how he squares up before attacks. It's too bad I missed the takedown -- I had to switch to a lower resolution in order to get more time per clip (memory card related issue, I think). The ground fighting seemed somewhat ineffective with the gloves on. [ Fight 2: Hwan vs Brian (1/2) ] [ 2/2 ] Ok, I left my bandana at Reg's place, is why I'm using that ridiculous elastic for my long hair. At the 11s mark you can see Brian catch me with a reverse sidekick, and I was...

So I went and done a dumb thing and got my ribs smashed in. Er, sorry, just a little kick, you know, nothing serious -- nothing broken. I did have a terrible time sleeping, which depended a lot on me staying very still, a skill I developed in university when I used to lay out my study notes on my bed and leave a sliver of mattress for me to sleep on. Anyway, I went to the nearby hospital (St. Joseph's Health Center), which has some really nice modern facilities. Unfortunately, it also has really long wait times -- it took me over five hours in total from walking in, leaving my name, registering, waiting to see a nurse, waiting to see a doctor, waiting to give a blood and urine sample, waiting for several x-rays, and then waiting again to see a doctor about the results. Like I said, nothing broken, though it looks like my liver may have been damaged. In any case, I'm going back tomorrow/Tuesday for an ultrasound. The famous kick happened during a little sparring thing we had goi...