I took to my bed on Monday night after an evening of shivering. All my joints ached and I could hardly move. The slow climb to bed confirmed the wisdom of our decision to move to a bungalow. I stayed there most of Tuesday, only rising in mid afternoon, and a lot of Wednesday, rising at noon. Gradually I began to feel better, and mobile. By Wednesday Julia was able to pronounce my colour to be “better”.. By this she means “less corpse-like” as I have a habit of turning grey when I am ill, and my natural disinclination toward rapid movement becomes more pronounced. At best I appear to be a grumpy zombie, and at worst I have found myself prodded violently awake “just in case”.
I’m not sure what it was, or what caused it, but I think cold, lack of sleep and hours sitting immobile in the car all contributed. OK, and old age. And my immunosuppressants. I always blame them these days.
I managed a few taps on the keyboard yesterday, but didn’t do much. Today I feel a bit more enthused, but still not overly motivated. I have also lost my appetite and reduced my calorie intake despite Julia’s efforts to a feed me back to health.
That’s about all there is to report, apart from feeling like Rip van Winkle. I went to bed in a world where politics seemed dull and ugly, and woke in one where politics appears to have run down a rabbit hole and returned with an unsubtle double act where a megalomaniac billionaire is bankrolling Mr Teflon, the man to whom nothing can stick. At the moment I am puzzled rather than worried, but I imagine that will change in the next few months.
I am glad that you are on the way to recovery. It was a rude awakening though. We will just have to wait and see what happens.
Wait and see and become amazed . . .
Rest up and take good care of yourself, Simon. Yes, the world is a surreal place right now.
The feeling of unreality grows with every news report. At the moment it feels like I am trapped in a world where Austin Powers meeets George Orwell. .
Human nature has not changed much since the dawn of mankind. The stakes are a lot higher now.
They are indeed.
You may or may not have heard about this taking place recently.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/07/g-s1-33340/racist-text-messages-african-americans-splc-fbi
It’s quite chilling that it seems so easy to target a group of people. That’s before you consider the mindset of a group willing to do that sort of thing.
Please take care of yourself!
I will do my best – this has been a bit of an educational few days. 🙂
I’m sorry you have been so rough, my friend. That is one way to get us to click on a link
🙂 I always feel I should issue a warning before exposing my sense of humour to public view. 🙂
I can find nothing to like about Trump , however it is good that you are feeling a bit better. I wonder if we all tried to send our negative thoughts to him he would come down with something bad. I mean something else.
I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t work. I think the USA tried it against Castro already. However, Janey Godley (who sadly died a few weeks ago – and was three years younger than me) did try a similar approach. (Caution – photo contains a rude word!)
https://tinyurl.com/ys4azp3p
A rude word??? You should always tell the truth.
🙂 Yes, it’s important to be nice, but it is also important to be truthful. That is the problem with some people – it is hard to be both.