Ah, the Aches of it all
Tired, coughing, slight intermittent fever, and exhaustion. Yep, day 2 of my personal covid adventure. Just as I suspected.
Last night wasn’t too bad. Of course, how would I really know? All I did was sleep thanks to half a dose of Nyquil, which is all I’m allowed to take. Too much of a risk for me according to my doctors. So I for once follow their advice – a hard thing for me to do, especially when I feel like shit.
But I’m still thankful. As I tell everyone, “I’m pumped up, motivated, psyched up, never had a bad day in my life.” And the days with covid are no different. Nor were the days with pneumonia. Or the two years I spent in massive daily pain from a blood tumor on my liver. Or charging through a land mine field. Or listening to too many politicians promise too many things that everyone knows they will never honor. Or any of life’s other inconveniences. Of course, if you are like me, the last one is probably the hardest. But here I am – on the right side of the dirt.
Of course, today I feel like I am a little more beaten down toward that dirt. But when you are as old as the dirt itself, you develop a very close relationship.
But again, “I’m pumped up, motivated, psyched up, never had a bad day in my life.” And for all you skeptics on this matter, the logic is simple. The first second of any day that you wake up is absolutely perfect. The other twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes, and fifty-nine seconds may become the worst time period in your life, but that first second is still perfect. And when you fall asleep and wake up, whatever happened in those other twenty-three hours, fifty-nine minutes, and fifty-nine seconds will be interrupted. It will be interrupted by the next perfect second when you wake up once again.
So yeah, I feel like shit and will probably feel like shit most of this day. But I am blessed to be in a nice house with a beautiful caring wife and I have a great chance of making it to the next perfect second tomorrow. So I think I will take this time just to be thankful and say a prayer for the over 13,000 who didn’t get to see that perfect second over the last week. I will also pray that as the Chinese people forge their way out of the zero-covid policy that the deaths there will not match the potential that is feared. I also pray that just one more extra person gets their vaccination today. We in the United States have very good access to the ability to see that next perfect second. Yet we don’t take advantage of it. Hopefully, that resistance will not kill us or our family members.
But again, I remain thankful and look forward to as many perfect seconds as God and this old body will allow.
Choose joy.
Note: Also posted at Covid With Lime.