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In the Sick Zone

October 5, 2025

I’ve about had it with being in the sick zone. Five straight days in the house, the first two of which were terrible-horrible-miserable days with the whole panoply of covid symptoms — fever, chills, body aches, headache, cough, sore throat (have I already complained about this?) (no doubt I have).

The next three days have been a welcome relief from most of that, but still feeling weak-ish, still on Paxlovid, and am certainly contagious. So home confinement it is. Have been missing all the normal walks and friend meet ups, movie night and Sunday brunch with Jim, and just daylight. But I’ve also missed (or will be missing) a planned dinner with friends, a scheduled massage, Saturday’s Prop 50 canvassing, a fancy Prop 50 fundraiser, and today’s annual Neighbor’s Night Out.

Sad.

I’m a bit stir crazy, so how about this cool optical illusional image… (I do love these things):