To Good Health!
Well, it was bound to happen - after almost four years, Covid finally made it to our house.
John came down with it first on the Monday after Thanksgiving: that holiday's gathering with 30+ members of the Lussier clan is the suspected source, though no one else in the bunch has reported getting ill. For the next three days I served up a lot of hot tea and soup, proud of my stalwart immune system --- until it finally gave up on me by Thursday morning.
By that time, John (with the help of Paxlovid) was on the road to recovery and able to do a little grocery shopping, taking advantage of our supermarket's online-order-parking-lot-pickup service. Happily, we both had relatively mild cases and each tested negative by day 6 - John last Saturday and me just this morning as I write this on Tuesday. Now it's just a matter of masking up in public for another five days.
I admit that I was somewhat bummed out this past weekend to have missed out on some fun once-a-year events in our community - the downtown Christmas tree lighting, holiday bazaars at all the local churches, our own annual trek to get a Christmas tree, and out-to-dinner plans to celebrate our 43rd anniversary which falls today as you read this (December 6). It still remains to be seen as to whether or not I'll be able to sing in the Randolph Singers concert this coming Sunday. At the very least, I'll be in the audience to support the group I've been rehearsing with since September.
Still, we're happy to have this all over with well before Christmas, and thankful that our bouts were more like nasty but short-lived head-colds than anything more serious.
Thankful also for neighbors and friends that offered their help and left soup and cookies on the front porch for us.
Thankful as well for the four-leggers that made sure we were feeling better:
The view from my recliner as I was trying to rest and read:
Breaking the house rules - dogs allowed on the furniture while I recovered (and yes, I cropped the picture to hide my "bed head" and pale face!):
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Wishing all of you good health, a happy December, and very Merry Christmas!
Be careful out there!
