Turns out being sick isn’t fun
Photo wholly unrelated to this post. It’s ginger cat I saw on a walk a few weeks back and it made me smile so I’m including it.
Man I am INCREDIBLY sick and have been since last Friday.
This is upsetting for a myriad of reasons - most explicitly that I’ve tailored my life around prevention; my wife and youngest child are immunocompromised and since 2020 taught me no one else is going to give a shit, I’ve done everything possible to take measures against getting sick so as to not get them sick. I’m not ignorant - I know there’s no guarantees but as a result of the above, I’ve been “sick” maybe four times in the last four years - and not since the bizarre inner ear infection I got last year that gave me a crippling vertigo and left me unable to walk for ten days have I been this felled.
Felled!!
The past Friday I started feeling like absolute shit and took a day off work. The weekend wasn’t super healing and I tried to work Monday but that night my body just shut down.
Fever, congestion, cough, headache, whole body soreness, bloody noses - the fucking ringer. I haven’t been able to get out of bed for days. Waiting to see if I can get in to my doctor before next week. It’s a mess
And usually when I’m sick I watch Midnight Diner but I ran out of episodes. I guess I could rewatch but that feels disingenuous. What the fuck man.