Your Author update:
Thanks to the Mund und Kiefer-Klinik at the Saarbrücken hospital, I have some powerful narcotics in hand now, and woke after several long naps feeling better enough to believe that the antibiotics may have reduced the pressure. If I feel like this after my next nap I think I may survive and carry on to the next chapter.
I'll be back in a few hours after my next installment of last night's sleep. Thank you for all of your good wishes and reassurances, and I'll be looking for new fanart too, to cheer me up... say one of those reach around crotch grabbing shots... that remains my favorite of all of yours, Lucise!