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We just got back from our windsurfing-centric vacation in Aruba. I have no idea what’s been going on anywhere in the world for the past week (it cant REALLY be that much I’m guessing) so I’ll be posting stuff later on.

Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately, but for the last week and a half I’ve been in sort of in health hell. I got a pretty gnarly lil bug called MRSA (pronounced MERSA – methacillin resistant staphylococcus aureus). The bacteria turned out to be quite a Motherf***er which is not so easy to get rid off, since it’s already pretty much resistant to a lot of common antibiotics.

In my short stay at the hospital, I came to realize that these fine institutions are a mix between The Hilton Hotel and Abu-Ghraib. Sleep deprivation and initial disorientation seem to be the M.O. to make you then succumb to their better-than-airplane food and Thursday afternoon milkshakes…

The short story of the whole thing goes like this.

I got a bump in my arm which I thought was nothing and turned out to be a pretty serious infection. After a few visits to the E.R. I was then admitted to the hospital from Wednesday to Sunday.

Read the full account of my odyssey after the jump and view some images way at the end

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I got back out of the hospital today (I’ll post later on the entire odyssey) so now I’ll be back online, probably intermittently, but back nonetheless. Thanks to all of you guys who called me / emailed me. Good to know there’s such cool people around.

I saw this beauty parked by our studio on 27th and 6th.

Protected against evil-eye on the front by a voodoo doll, together with a zebra-like animal to bring abundance in food (?) and the Taj-Mahal on the side, to remind you of the place you’d rather be in.

I wonder if I can get mine customized like this.

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