As readers and listeners know, I’ve been very much looking forward to heading over to Stockhom, Sweden, for VON Europe 2007 and the co-located Podcamp Europe. Unfortunately, when my flight leaves this afternoon, I will not be on it.  I’m now not going.

Since about the middle of this past week, I’ve been experiencing some pains that made it extremely uncomfortable to sit or stand for long periods of time.  Oddly, walking is fine, but sitting or standing still starts to really hurt.  After spending literally the entire day Saturday in a medical center and then hospital, they think it might just come down to something like a severely pulled muscle… but they don’t know and suggest watching it for the next couple of days.  It’s strange because I can’t recall doing anything that would cause a muscle tear.

The net of it, though, is that: a) spending 10-ish hours in airplanes getting over there is going to be very painful; and b) if anything gets worse, I don’t really want to be going into a hospital in Sweden… (and then fighting with US health insurance about coverage!)

So very unfortunately, it looks like I’m going to have to miss out on this one… which is a severe disappointment!  I know that folks there will have fun… and I’m looking forward to hearing/reading about all the went on (including the Blue Box dinner tomorrow night).