Pneumonia has spent the last week making me feel like someone is standing on my chest while I try to hack out a lung, but the amount of rest and sleep I’ve been forced into taking is starting to help. I feel marginally more human today.
As Renee keeps warning me, “Either you rest, or your body will rest for you” and thus, here we are. Today is the first day I’ve even contemplated writing (which is very odd, as most days I’m mentally or actually writing or editing something) since Friday, and that’s not saying much.
I have two big pieces in my head that I’ll finish in the next 24 or so as I recover, but in the mean time, I hope you’ll enjoy my interview with former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan.
Thanks for your patience, folks.
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Pneumonia, gods Rick, that's awful. I had bacterial pneumonia the winter before 9/11, and I got it from schlepping around New Brunswick on foot looking for an apartment. And I was a pack-a-day smoker at the time. Got a fever so high I was hallucinating. The ER (of course I had no health insurance) wrote me a scrip for Biaxin, turned out I was allergic to it and it made me puke; I had to go back for a scrip of Amoxicillin, so I was out $100 for pills I had to throw away.
Thank the gods Joe Biden is beginning to deal with that shizzle. And thank gods for the ACA.
I'll be back with a comment on your interview, just wanted to quickly toss out a note of empathy. You'll get through it; once the infection breaks you'll recover just fine. But man it's awful when you have it.
Hang in there! Know you're always with us in spirit.
Please take care of yourself, Rick. I am considerably older than you, and I have had to learn the hard way sometimes that if you don’t build in time for self-care, at some point your body will force you to do it. 💙