Vacation Time

Been a minute, I apologize. Wait, no I don’t. I’m on vacation you heathens. Just kidding. I know you’re not all heathens. Last I checked in I was dealing with a fresh batch of pre-vacation Covid. Thankfully that is well on its way out. No fever since last Wednesday. Still dealing with some head congestion […]

Sick Again

Today is the official start of my vacation. Off today and tomorrow, then all of next week. Our biggest plan on this vacation was heading down to Indianapolis tomorrow to hit a museum, visit our oldest, and then get some dinner at a Detroit-style pizza joint. My wife’s birthday is Monday, so you know cake […]

New Year, New Covid

The year has gotten off to a great start. It’s begun with good old Covid. We’d had plans to have my best friend come over on New Year’s Eve. You know, some tacos, some movies, maybe spin some records, and maybe some classic video games to scratch that early 80s arcade itch. But I was […]

Is This Long Covid?(Or Am I Just Sad?)

I’ve been in a bit of a rut, lately. Ever since that bout of Covid a little over a month ago I just haven’t felt, well, normal. There are days when I feel okay. I started to go to the Y a week afterwards and got in two days before I tapped out. Just wasn’t […]

Intermittently Awful…Marginally Terrible

The signs were there earlier in the week. I had a low-grade fever of 99.3 last Sunday and felt pretty run down, but the fever went away by late afternoon. Then on Wednesday I started having body aches, chills, and my head felt like it was on fire. I took some pain reliever, laid on […]

Under The Weather…Getting Over The Hump

The concept of sick seems to have changed dramatically in the last two and a half years. Before Covid you could say you felt like shit and nobody would blink an eye at you. Coughing, sore throat, sniffles, maybe even a slight wheeze in your chest and it was “Oh, well I’ll stop at CVS […]