It’s been a “lost week” in some ways, Jeremy has been sick – really since Friday and he’s been sick ever since. Powering through his mother’s birthday party with face mask (so far Katherine seems not sick – that would have been a terrible birthday present), he really was knocked out the rest of the week, each day hoping to feel 100% again, but not really – not even today, almost a full week later. He carefully checks his watch for metrics on his heart rate and temperature and sleep, we are clearly over the hump now, but he still feels crummy and needs the ibuprofen every 6 hours. He feels so poorly that he can’t really remember if he took a Motrin, so he’s resorted to taking photos of the pill bottle. We tested for flu and covid (albeit with expired tests) and those turned up negative which was confusing because Ginny is positive with covid this week and isn’t working in the afternoons this week either.
Luckily, both Edda and I (knock on wood) are feeling good – still working, still going to the day program. It’s been a few years now that Jeremy has gotten pretty ill (at least 3-4 times, once famously at Vince’s graduation) and Edda and I do OK without strict quarantine efforts. I actually woke up on Sunday feeling a little groggy with a runny nose and I thought for a moment – oh no, here it comes I need to cancel everything, but 45 minutes later, I felt fine and went a weightlifting session and felt fine. We wonder if, 1. Jeremy just has a suckier immune system or 2. if he never sees anyone and therefore, his immune system is out of practice. We brainstormed that he needed to volunteer at a daycare center (he did this when he was younger and got ringworm, lol), but we aren’t really sure if this will make his immune system stronger or if he will just be sick all the time. As I said – the only person he seemed to have seen last week was Ginny – but she has covid and Jeremy does not. But then I checked the calendar and remembered we took Edda to see the doctor on Thursday last week and I’m like — ohhh, you got your illness in the waiting room of the doctors office. whomp whomp.