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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

the age-ed do not bounce

I guess I'm starting to show my age. I haven't bounced back from this little episode of illness like I used to. Today I plan to throw caution to the wind and actually eat the noodles and chicken in the Campbell's soup I'll have. Brave huh?

It's making me nuts! I can't ride, I can't read and prepare Thursday's lecture, I can't sit at the wheel and throw pots, I can't do anything but lay here and be lethargic. It totally sucks.

I get a little better every day, but whatever this was it sure has made me appreciate how healthy I normally am.

It was inevitable though. I was just thinking a few weeks ago how lucky I'd been all winter, that through that horrible months-long ordeal that I hadn't even had the sniffles.

Then, of course, I went right out and overdid. I jumped on a horse, and started riding my bike, and spending time doing things to the car etc. Not thinking for a second that maybe I should pace myself. That this all might take a break-in period since I wasn't nearly this active for the last six months.

I also didn't consider that I am in constant contact with those germy urchins at the college who potentially bring to me, in three hours, the amount of exposure to germs that I normally have in a month. So, like I said...inevitable.

I find that I can concentrate a little more today. I have been able to get things pretty much caught up at work, so that alone made me feel a little better.

It's just pathetic that I am reduced to this...this...pile of rubble by a little virus.

Pathetic!

So much for aging gracefully.

1 comment:

Rich said...

get better soon, Shaun!