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…in Belfast this weekend.<\/p>\n

For those of who who might not have been following Peter’s LJ <\/a>lately, over the previous weekend a horsefly bit him. He normally doesn’t react well to such things (physically, I mean: forget the verbal response, it gets rather old after about five minutes…), but this time he swelled up far more spectacularly than usual. A visit to the doctor after a few days (as his arm continued to increase in size as if he’d sublet it from the Incredible Hulk<\/a>) revealed that not only was he having an aggravated version of his traditional reaction to this kind of bug bite, but the bite was also infected and the infection was spreading.<\/p>\n

The doctor stuck him full of antibiotics and cortisone and sent him home. Unfortunately the arm just kept on swelling, and when the swelling started happening elsewhere as well, we headed straight back to the doctor and discovered that he was probably having a reaction to the cortisone too, and the infection wasn’t responding. What joy…!<\/p>\n

So now he’s home on painkillers and different antibiotics and whatnot, and the doctor has told him to just stay right where he is — in bed — and not act like a crazy person and try to go anywhere. Which is what P. would have done: he wanted to go up north and “show off his arm.” (eyeroll)<\/p>\n

My apologies to those of you who were hoping to see us in Belfast. But it’s as they say: sometimes Stuff Happens.<\/p>\n

Oh, well, there’s always next year…<\/p>\n

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