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Day 2,351: Last Day

Today was my last day of taking antibiotics. Im so happy about that. Almost happier than my flu-like symptoms disappearing

Day 2,350: Back Baby

Im back baby!

Kindastill easily tired. Not firing on all cylinders. Didnt get to write today till just nowbut I did write. For the first time since I got sick.

Reading my book, you guysits good. I dont mean that to toot my horn in any objective way; quite the opposite. I mean *I* like it. Genuinely like it. Its giving me a little more perspective, a little more confidence in my own current writing, trusting that I have turned a corner. I can do this.

Liz shared some really fun music with me...

Day 2,349: The Killing Joke

I watched The Killing Joke tonight. It was on HBO and it was short for a feature (average length for an animated movie though). Iwas not impressed.

It looked beautiful. And Mark Hamill is genuinely brilliant whenever he voices the Jokerbut man. The Barbara Gordon stuff is shockingly tone deaf, and worseunnecessary to the point that its actually just boring. Blech. I mean, the film had other problems, many, many of them. But that was the biggest reason I wasnt really feeling it.

I havent seen...

Day 2,348: Getting There

The recovery proceeds apace.

I was tired today. I took like a two and a half hour nap. Im definitely still in the process of getting back on my feet, no doubt, and today being a day off was very much needed. Gonna do the same thing tomorrow.

Iam looking forward to being back to normal. Big time. Im looking forward to writing. Working. I read an article today about how the US has an unhealthy obsession with work. I definitely fall into that category, but I really, truly love what I do. I love...

Day 2,347: omg

Omg you guys

I

Feel

BETTER.

Likeactually better. I felt normal today, with the singular exception that I feel more tired than normal in that post-trial exhaustion way. So, not back to 100%, but I didnt feel SICK today once. Not once.

And its definitely the antibiotics that make my mouth taste like ass. The taste comes and goes depending on when I take a dose, so its got to be that for sure. Blech. Four more days of that stuff. Then Im done.

And if my symptoms stay away for the next two days,...

Day 2,346: Sick of it

Starting to get sick of being sick

Its been a week. Two weeks, really, of feeling wiped out all the time.

Im better. Today, I really felt better. But Im not done with it yet. Ill still go through several hours a day of feeling achy, tired, brain-zapped, headache, etc. SICK. Blech. Im over it.

I feel totally disconnected from my normal routine. Not-rested. Ill sleep for 9 hours and even take a nap during the day, but wake up exhausted.

Just feeling kind of down tonight, I guess.

I watched Live...

Day 2,345: …better

Im feelingbetter

?

Its hard to tell, because it comes and goes. But, I think I am getting better. Finally. Its so weird, even my nasal congestion comes and goes. Like, right now, Im totally clear. An hour from now, I might wake up because I have to start breathing through my nose. Same goes for the aches and otherwise feeling sick.

Work is good though. Cruising along.

Watched a little bit of Live and Let Die tonight, the first Roger Moore Bond film. Its not quite as bad as I expected. Its...

Day 2,344: It’s Rough

Its rough not being able to spend time with Liz. Close time together, anyway. We eat dinner together on the floor, me leaning up against the bedroom wall that looks out through the door into the living room, and her on the floor of the living room facing opposite me. So, we do have that.

Its hard, though. No way around it.

Im assuming I have viral conjunctivitis (pink eye) in both my eyes, just from how red they are and the way they feel, which is not itchy or dry, the symptoms I get when Im...

Day 2,343: Gentleness

I was just petting the Coops before getting into bed tonight, and just observing how much he liked it when I was very, very gentle. And it made me think about how animals will be gentle like that with each other all the time. Its something they value, just like we do.

We dont often think of animals like that. And for good reason, given how cutthroat it truly is out there in the wild. But, with any animals that group together in social structures, youll see moments of gentleness when they feel...

Day 2,342: Up and Down

It was an up and down day of the sickness for me today. I woke up feeling pretty much normal; symptoms really lowered, energy levels backand then I felt back to being sick for the rest of the dayuntil this evening, when I felt even better.

SoIm on the mend, I think. I hearif this even is COVID, which it very well might not bethat symptoms can kind of wax and wane for an extended period of time with this thing, so we. Shall. See.

Watched On Her Majestys Secret Service tonight just because I...