Dragons Have Sucked the Blog out of Me

After finishing Extended School Year (aka summer school for babies) and finding that I had employment in September, I did what comes naturally to me, purchase a video game. Not just any video game, Dragon Age: Origins, a game I can only explain as the "Star Wars of video games."

• Epic Story - Check
• Fantastic characters - Check
• Ultimate villain - Check
• Dragons - Check
• Sword fights - Check

The remainder of my summer consisted of Dragon Age. After beating the game three times, I purchased three of the expansion packs for the game and played through the entire game a fourth time. Hours after beating the game, I headed to my local Gamestop to purchase Awakening, another expansion pack for the game. Of course, this meant that I had to beat the game a fifth time.

Fast forward eight months, and I haven't played it since. Everything changed when Dragon Age II was released. The sequel to my favorite game was not as thrilling to play, however the actions you take in the first effect the missions and outcome of the second game. After beating Dragon Age II twice, I decided to return Dragon Age: Origins, with two goals in mind, play the game completely differently from my original experiences and to finally complete the Blight Queller Achievement.

Rachel has been quite patient through my game addictions; forgoing the television just for me. In fact, she finds most of the games I play quite fascinating, though most of the time she misses most of the storyline to Dragon Age because I'm usually in the middle of running around aimlessly completing side quests that have nothing to do with the actual story.

Rest assured, I haven't disappeared from the blogging world. I took a temporary hiatus, mainly from writer's block and the resurrection of the dragon obsession. 

Battle Wounds

If you remember correctly, Gerald left a nice scar on my face after launching himself onto my face during a game of tag with Sasha. After having a very sore face for about a week, the wound finally healed up, but left a noticeable scar on my face. Earlier last week, Gerald was snuggling on my lap while I played Dragon Age: Origins. He was being extra cute and snuggly, burrowing his face into my elbow at one point. 

In the middle of his nap, Sasha and Zonks started to chase after each other, in a non-friendly way. Of course, this startled Gerald, who leaped off my lap with all of his claws out. In order to leap off of me, he used both of my legs and arms as leverage to boost himself off the futon and into the bedroom in the most quickest manner. Unintentionally, he left a few wounds on my limbs, but nothing I thought was too serious. Plus, I was in the middle of fighting a High Dragon and nothing was going to take me away from the taste of victory.

It wasn't until a few days later, that I noticed a puncture wound on my left thigh that wasn't looking too good. The wound was on the inside of my leg, and when I first noticed it, I assumed it was the lighting in the room that was giving it the weird color. I was of course very wrong.

In fact, the wound had become infected. It was a small puncture wound, but the skin around it had turned red and my wound was oozing (not to sound gross). Of course, I noticed my new oozing wound on Thursday morning after my shower, so there was nothing I could do about it until after school. When I got home, I showed Rachel my battle wound, and she immediately told me to call the doctor.

I made an appointment for later that night and a second appointment with Gerald's vet for the end of the month to have his front claws removed. He doesn't mean harm, most of my injuries have resulted in him being unaware of his claws even being out. When he returns home from his surgery, Rachel and I are going to spoil him with a home cooked, human food meal and treat him to his very own, fuzzy blanket.

The doctor gave me two prescriptions, Cipro, an antibiotic to deal with the infection and a heavy duty Neosporin cream. I dropped of the prescriptions on Friday after work, but when I returned for them I was told that I don't have any insurance as of September 1st. Great.

Apparently, my employers never reinstated my insurance after hiring me back and nobody informed me. In fact, when I asked if I needed to fill out any paperwork for anything, they all claimed that I didn't have to worry about anything. Well, apparently somebody missed a memo. I can't wait to find out what else I'm going to have to take care of.