It only took 2 and a half years.
Being sick sucks.
It started with me feeling dizzy. Then I was exhausted and achy. Then my throat felt like I’d been swallowing glass shards. It only went downhill from there.
We sequestered me in the main bedroom to try and keep our daughter from getting sick. She is unvaccinated due to her age and the reason we locked ourselves down so hard for the last 2 years. As of Day 7 of having symptoms and she and my husband were still healthy. As of Day 9 of testing positive, they are both doing fine. We may have dodged the bullet.
We know they are very likely to catch this eventually. We are playing a timing game. I am still on the hunt for a pediatrician who will give our daughter the vaccine prior to her going to preschool. But we anticipate her getting sick in September so hopefully, I won’t get it even if she and he do.
My husband and I had a sad laugh – this is 100% not the way I would have spent a week with no responsibilities. I barely managed to do anything while stuck in bed. However, I did manage to watch the first 4 seasons of Degrassi: The Next Generation. Perhaps sleep/watch is the better way to say that… And he had to take a week of vacation from work and handle all responsibilities regarding our daughter, housework, and taking care of me. Le suck.
I did reignite my love for Stardew Valley on the Switch. While I did not play very much, I did manage to round up Summer of Year 3 and move into Fall. I finally finished up the Community Center (so much fishing), received the Statue of Perfection from Grandpa’s Shrine, and hatched my first dinosaur.
There were three books I read while sick.
- Soulfully Yours – I did not finish. The writing was awful. The heroine was such a drag.
- The Prophecies – I only finished because I genuinely wanted to know how it ended and I had nothing better to do. They really needed an editor because that story could easily have lost 30% without it impacting the story. I liked the main premise a lot but it had a few tropes that personally am not a fan of.
- Divination for Skeptics – I did not expect to like this one after the other two but it was so laugh-out-loud funny that I would willingly read it again.
Thankfully, I am doing better. Still physically tired and a little sniffly but able to help out again. I do have a lot of work to catch up on – both for my jobs and the housework – but I am most excited to finally spend time with my family again. Missing my daughter sucks. Missing my husband sucks. Almost as much as being sick sucked.
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