Day 5

DH and I still test positive. The gift that keeps on giving. Like two slugs, we've sat in one room or the other, sighing boredom and tiredness. Our symptoms are still stuffiness and a lethargy unlike anything I've ever had. Tissues are a necessity but we've nothing like those first victims of the scourge!

Yet, things still need attending. Routine housework can be set aside because who's visiting anyway? I'm the queen of pre-cooked treasures in my freezer so we haven't starved. Likewise the dishwasher functions so things don't look bleak in the kitchen. OK, maybe I vacuumed one day. Drove for grocery pickup another. Plants need watered. Then there's my pool.

Just like the OJ of the past, I don't stop. This morning I was standing next the pool, more like resting my head on the edge, while one hand held a draining gizmo and the other a net on a pole, trying to get the water and gross schmutz off the cover. I realized this morning that the cover had sprung several small leaks and the pool water is trickling up onto the cover-top. It's gotta come off in the next day or two or I'll have a lot of work ahead of me. This year there was not enough cold to kill the algae and I've got a super bloom. 

Just what I want to do. Not.

Happy Mother's Day all.


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  1. MorticiaAddamsMay 13, 2023 at 6:50 AM

    Sounds like you are doing fairly well with what I deem to be the worst communicable disease I ever had. I had it really early on and had Long Haulers. Only 3 days or so of the acute stuff but back then nobody really knew much about it and an inhaler helped that. Then the weird stuff set in. I know people who have had it every time a variation comes up or every time their wimpy immune system with let it in. I lost a couple months of my life. So glad you were prepared ahead for this. I apparently didn't stop either though I don't really remember much of what I did. Not a good time for the pool to decide it wants to be a pain in the rump. I've had a pool so I know the routine. Remove cover and as much debris with it as possible. Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum. Shock, shock, shock. Run the pump 24/7. Back-wash, back-wash, back-wash, world without end. Should be back to normal in a few.

    I hope you both are as well. No way to spend Mother's Day. No one here will probably even know it is Mother's Day or my birthday next week either.

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  2. OneKidsMomMay 13, 2023 at 3:02 PM

    Oh, Janet, it's just one thing on top of another! Sounds like you're weathering the plague despite the algae bloom, though. Pacing yourself (that's wise). Triggering my hypochondria... I've been napping a lot this week. I still count it as catching up from Carl insomnia, but that's been over a week since he went home. He's now cone-free and stitches removed and looks like a much happier pooch in the videos posted yesterday.

    Hang in there! The kids are dragging me along with her parents to a place up the road for Mother's Day Sunday afternoon. A stationery shop and a cider shop in a small town near where we go to the melodramas! Not being with your kids on mother's day? Bummer!

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    1. OverworkedjanetMay 13, 2023 at 4:34 PM

      Oooh, a cider shop. Sounds cozy. I think I can make the day into something I want and no great expectations!

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  3. ValMay 22, 2023 at 3:30 PM

    The Number One Hint that keeps coming up in my reading/research is R*E*S*T, and lots of it! Makes me feel like an absolute slug, but it can't be helped - if I overexert myself I'm gasping for breath like a fish out of water. I have high hopes for a slow metered return to exercise...

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