Quite sick

Patience above! It is nearing a week of having flu or whatever the damn thing is.* I have never been so sick. I called out of work the two days leading up to the Thanksgiving Day weekend, can you imagine? I am feeling better today enough to sit up without passing out, which allows me to write. Until this morning I was obliged to be horizontal.

Curious! I have no appetite whatsoever. Normally I am perpetually hungry but I haven’t desired anything for four days now. It must be just how thems on weight loss medications feel, at least that is what they tell me: they have no sense of hunger. I should weigh myself to see how much I’ve lost, although that would be water and muscle mass loss.

The worse part about it all is the breathing. My nose is clogged and the upper parts of my lungs produce enough phlegm to choke a horse, or at least me. My coughing it profound. Although I am tired I cannot sleep given the inability to breathe. Yet there is no fever; there was a mild one last night, which broke, giving me a modicum of hope the bug is beaten. Someone’s timeline is about two days ahead of mine; while he still is coughing he felt OK enough to go to work today Thanksgiving.**

It’s infuriating lying there not able to do things. I’ve been too tired to read or listen to books. Dishes and clothes are piled high as Fafner’s hoard. Amazing how the place falls apart when one is sick.

On the positive it is quiet, the quietest I have experienced in ages. Normally there is Harper to lie next to in bed and feel her warm furry breathing against me, but she isn’t here. Outside, people are traveling to their Thanksgiving destinations and gathering with friends and family. Last Sunday we bought food to make a meal for Friday but right now I haven’t the energy to do it. Oh well, that’s how the old mop flops. Can a frozen turkey that is thawed by refrozen I wonder?

I need to go lie down now. Staying upright long enough to write this has tuckered me. Please send positive healing vibes my way or at least a good bourbon for which to make hot toddies. They don’t do much for flu but it makes being sick less unpleasant.

*I didn’t test but I don’t think it is COVID given I have a sense of smell.

**Our versions differ that mine has lower GI symptoms, worse luck.