I don’t know why, but this winter has been kicking my butt as I am currently going through my third or fourth cold in the last three months!
I hate being sick, but who doesn’t? It is especially hard when you add on all of the things that have been going on recently, and so to be sick yet again is trying to say the least. Annie is also sick and that’s even worse because we both feel very run down, which doesn’t make for great moving preparation, working effort, or caretaking of Pixel.
We are doing the best we can, but all I want to do is sleep. We worry about Pixel getting sick. We stress over the lack of momentum on getting ready to move out of Annie’s sister’s place, and we try to be productive in our jobs.
Normally, I would take a sick day, but having just returned from Parental leave and taking a couple days off soon for the move, it seems like a bad choice when there are so many moving pieces dependent on me.
I also find myself getting a bit paranoid. Is it the air quality? Is it my diet? Is it something else within my control? Could I have avoided this cold somehow?
Right now, Annie and I are trying to take a bunch of vitamin C and zinc, drink lots of fluids and rest when we can in hopes of beating this thing quickly, but trying to balance recovery and current life expectations is super hard.
It would be really nice if this one was short lived as we are planning to move this weekend to our new house, despite how much snow and wind we are getting here.
Ideally both the weather and our health would cooperate for the move…
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