In Dour Country
Well, I got it, too.
On Friday, I developed chills and that head-swaying dizziness that I’ve experienced several times in the past with the flu. Cycles of fever started right after these symptoms. I took a home test Saturday morning and got the captain’s bars of a positive result. As people used to say a few years back, meh.
Mrs. Orr is feeling better, fever-free and cough almost completely gone. Her remaining complaint is the soreness of her eyeballs, which she often gets after running a fever. That and fatigue. We’re continuing our Ivermectin/antibiotic/vitamin supplementation and I do believe this regimen has been responsible for minimizing the effects of the Wu-bonic plague. We’re pretty confident that by this weekend, we’ll be returned to relative normality.
There’s a certain comfort in piling up on the couch with the dogs, wrapped in blankets, and waiting it out. This reminds me of childhood, when sickness was not a tragedy, not a freak-out emergency, but was simply one more thing to be endured, and one made the most of it, the best way one could. Endure. That’s what I think most of this life distills down into. That’s the job, that’s the task. My highfalutin ideas, my redneck metaphysic…those words elude me today. Today the bell that tolls the hours bongs in the key of endure.
I hear it may make it into the fifties today. And February has begun.
~S.K Orr
8 Comments
Carol
Just wondering how you and Mrs. Orr are doing?
Hoping/praying that you’re both at or near the point of fully recovered health.
admin
Carol, thank you so much for checking in on us. We’re both mostly recovered….just battling residual coughing/congestion, etc. The worst is over, and we’re grateful. Annoying stuff, that.
I hope you and yours are healthy and content. And defiant.
Lewis B
I am so glad to hear that Mrs. Orr is felling better! I pray that you will also begin to feel better very soon.
One of my friends recently had it and the symtoms were flu like and short-lived. He recovered quickly and entirely.
admin
Thanks so much for your kind wishes, Lewis. I’m sure I’ll be tip-top in a day or two.
James
Sounds like you are over the hump and on the downhill side.
Smooth sailing S. k.
admin
Many thanks, James.
Wm Jas
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Any chance that having had it already will make you exempt from the pecking order?
admin
Thank you, William….doing better already. I think the Ivermectin really is the key. I have no idea about the pecking order thing. I’ve learned not to expect people to act rationally nor logically, so it’s anyone’s guess.
I hope your time away from blogging is a GOOD break and that you return soon, and rejuvenated. Blessings to you, my friend.