The Invisible Enemy.

 It's here.  Despite being very cautious, following all the rules to the T and getting vaccinated as early as possible, my husband has COVID 19.  It feels very unfair.   He feels very, very bad.   We're trying to cope as best we can.  We are all vaccinated here in this house and my son and I have still been going to work.  Apparently, that's the new policy, if you've been vaccinated, the chances are supposedly less than 5% you'll get it, so where we work, you still need to go to work (as we are desperately short-staffed.   Normally I work at home, but I've spent 5 of the last 9 workdays in the office because someone was out with COVID and people were being pulled everywhere to cover.   It's been a wild week.  I've finally got a day off and I am going to spend it in my room, by myself.  My husband is warning people if he needs to come into a room so we can go out of it.   We're wearing masks at home.  I'm sleeping on various couches trying to find a comfortable spot.  And now my daughter is showing (thankfully milder) symptoms and is going to get tested today.   

Prayers please.  

Update:   My husband is feeling better.  Has been fever free for 3 days.   However, I think it's going to be a long time before he feels normal because he has been so weak.   

And also now our oldest is very near the path of the hurricane.  

More prayers please.  

Regrouping and trying again.

 I'm trying to get past the first part of this year and get back into life.   I'm pretty much done with recovery although I'm sure where I had my tooth pulled is going to feel weird for a while longer and my knees will also be artificial.  I'm not letting it stop me.  I've joined a weight loss / lifestyle change program that is available through my job and I'm trying to make some lifestyle changes.  I'm back to doing my yoga, which is the best thing ever.  Go look at Sara Beth Yoga on Youtube and do some of the beginner workouts.  I have to modify them, but they help so much with pain and stiffness.  This morning I got out and took a walk on the street.  It was very nice and peaceful.   Later today I have physical therapy so I'm getting in quite a bit of gentle exercise today and I want to be able to walk a 5K this fall (walking, not running).  

Things are going okay around here, with the current normal.   My husband and I are still working at home.  Youngest son is working at the hospital on second shift and has finally started scheduling some D&D games, which he had not done since the onset of the COVID.   Hopefully, the new issues won't end that and it will all be over soon.  Daughter is doing a dog-sitting gig this week.   We haven't gotten to talk to oldest son and daughter-in-law for a while.  They were going to call Sunday but we were at a friend's reunion all day.   We'll catch up later with them.

Editing here to add, that youngest son got a tetanus shot today for a small injury sustained at work.  This blog has been so helpful to our family to keep up with things like that, so next time it comes up, I will know the date to tell him.  Today.  :-)  

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