(health, reading notes, garden)

[elainegrey]

So i've had a miserable cold, with a sore throat as i was leaving California progressing through the common cold sequence and i am now left with the chest congestion: it's been on an upward trend since Thursday. Christine caught it from me, i'm pretty sure, and it hit her harder, but she's recovering faster. She did rest. I worked through the week, and the work was intense with several late evenings.

My lunchtime breaks where i would pick food from the garden were my daily highlights.

Yesterday afternoon i read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth, the "The Final Architecture" series. I was feeling guilty about loosing what was left of a pretty day to distraction until just moments ago when i realized I really should have rested more to let my body recover. I feel like i saw a recommendation for it, but i can't find it. I appreciated the universe building and history. Two of the main characters are veterans of a devastating war with super powerful and enigmatic planet destroyers. The war was two generations ago but, for different reasons, they both appear as they did then. I have a little itch about the character who slept for much of the fifty years and her ease of moving through the worlds: perhaps it's because the last fifty years have brought such technological and cultural change that it's hard to believe that the fictional fifty years did not bring similar discombobulation? But other than that, i did enjoy the read.

Gardening wise, I did get a dose of nematodes, Steinernema carpocapsae, out in the plot to fight wireworm. No nematodes for book worms, please!

Comments

[altamira16]

Did you test this to check for COVID? I only ask because the symptoms seem very much like the COVID that is kicking my butt, but I am not sure of the order of your symptoms. My progression was sore throat, congestion, the worst head congestion ever (a little loss of balance, very faint loss of taste), chest congestion, better, and then worse again. I think Christine is an asthmatic too, so I hope she does not go through the "recovery, oh nevermind, not recovery" phase.

[elainegrey]

I tested once. I probably should have tested more. Christine's not asthmatic so that's a relief. I've my fingers crossed that i will shake the cough once my chest clears.

I was looking at https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/covid-19-cold-flu-and-allergies-differences/art-20503981 and i didn't have particular headache or body ache symptoms, fine sense of smell, and no fever, so i quit worrying.

I do hope you are feeling like you aren't as out of breath as you were a few days ago and that mending is happening.

[amaebi]

I'm so sorry to her you're ill!

[altamira16]

Thank you for your kind thoughts.

[amaebi]

How are you feeling?

[altamira16]

I am hoping that I will start feeling better tomorrow when I start the medicine to get my asthma under control. They said not to take it late today in case there are side effects like not sleeping.

[amaebi]

My thumbs are held for you.

[tamena]

I hope both of you are feeling better sooner rather than later
everybody I know is getting their asses kicked with the creeping crud right now - they thought my Mom had pneumonia and Kira is currently complaining that's she dying of the plague.
Only a bit of sniffles here thank dog

[elainegrey]

I hope you can find a joyful plant and pet things to do and that your sniffles go away soon. We're definitely on the mend. Apparently The Common Cold has been uncommonly unpleasant this year.

[amaebi]

Oh, poor babies!

All the best to the partner-nematodes.