So, Darling Ones, It’s clear to me now that many mistakes were made. The mistakes began on Sunday when I decided to throw open the windows despite dire warnings about air quality. It didn’t look…
Posts tagged sick
The COVID Diaries: Back from the Brink
Hi Darling Ones, I’m coming to you just back from the brink of death. Or at least that’s what it feels like. I somehow managed to poison myself with food last night. Of all the…
Day 165 of 200: Sickbed Confessional
I did not make warm, life-affirming soup for my family before their departure to Oregon. Instead, I told them I was sick and they should bring food, so they did. When I said hello to…
Day 163 of 200: The Consumption
At one point today I sat on the couch coughing and crying and feeling so miserable that I didn’t know what to do with myself. I can’t remember the last time I was this sick…
Day 111 of 200: The Germs Continue to Win
I’m only a little bit pissed that I didn’t start this whole 200-day project a day earlier so that my 111th post would have happened yesterday on 11/11. Damnit. Of course, to be fair, I…
Day 110 of 200: Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people when it comes to getting sick — those who want to be nursed back to health by someone else and those who want to die alone in peace. I’m…
Two Kinds of People or, I think I’m getting a cold
I like to joke that there are two kinds of people in those world: those who don’t mind being lumped into a group based on some arbitrary measurement and boring stick in the muds. Boring…
A host of woes & one golden ray of sunshine
I’ve been having some server issues. It started a week or so ago when I was editing an older post, correcting some typo (oh yes, I correct them when I spot them. However, I do…
Things that have caused me to throw my head back and whine like a 2 year old, a list
I have a cold. I’ve had it since Friday and it has reduced me to a snotty (literally) 2-year-old brat (figuratively). Things that have caused me to whine audibly in a manner unbecoming a 38-year-old…
The rabid chipmunk makes me more emotional than usual
Even on my best days I’m kind of a crybaby. For reasons I cannot explain, crying is my go-to form of expressing emotion — sad, happy, angry, afraid — you name it, I cry. I…