Hey, guys, I decided to reappear after a long time underground. I wasn't real active on here anyway, so I'm sure I wasn't missed.
You can probably guess that the reason why is not a happy one. Plus, given where I'm posting, you can probably also guess it's a bit of a scary one, too. The plus side of it is that I didn't find out I'm HIV positive or anything like that. I probably would have never showed up again if that happened.
The negative, on the other hand, is that I got a nasty surprise in late May. After getting home from my protracted vacation-slash-horror-film-experience, I discovered that I had an infestation of pubic lice, and a full-on one at that. The whole time I was trapped in Tokyo, I'd been suffering from an itch, and I'd noticed suspicious patches (I figured out later that I'd also been pulling off nits, but I didn't know what they were at the time). I just didn't put two and two together until after I got home and had a big freak-out. See, I live with my parents, and (out of courtesy for their safety) I had to come clean to my mum about it, which was mortifying. I rushed out and treated myself with an off-the-shelf treatment, of course. For nearly a month and a half, I thought it had worked, but it turned out that I was mistaken!
Right now, it's been three months from the last time I treated (when I couldn't find anything despite combing front-to-back, back-to-front, and every which way and in every crevice). I haven't seen anything, but I'll admit that I get twitchy at every single little itch I have now. I've been compulsively checking my pubes to make sure I don't spot another one of the bastards for a while. Frankly, I'm still scared shitless that I may look down one day and the bastards will be right back. It's probably psychosomatic at this point, but I feel like you can't be too careful.
Anyway, the point is that I felt really ashamed and scared, so I vanished from here. So why did I come back? Because a guilty conscience spurred me into coming back to warn you guys. Somehow I doubt that any of you have been with the same girls that I was in that time, but you'd probably know now if you had. I don't know if I passed any bugs around, and I sincerely hope that I didn't because that would make me a terrible person. It's been too long for me to have decent recall of all that happened, so I won't be making any trip reports; please check my intro thread for a general list of who I saw if you have any doubts. (Actually, I'll come clean and say that I left a single disastrous visit to a Korean MP (top floor of that building near the station) in Okachimachi off out of embarrassment. Some part of me wonders if that isn't where I picked them up.)
I'm really sorry I didn't come back and say something, but I was and still am scared.