I feel the same way about Covid. I just returned from a work retreat where it was "strongly recommended" to mask on the plane, and I was incensed about it. I understand it's better to be cautious before your entire company convenes in person for four days, but I am so over masks and so over Covid. Except that, you know, Covid is not so over us. In any case, I hope you recover soon, both from Covid and your nasty-sounding fall! At least you made me laugh :)
I can relate to so much of this, from the very first line! Also, your stairs incident is giving me a flashback to a stairs incident from maybe seven years ago. I think I was also foolishly wearing socks and going quickly down some carpeted stairs in a house we were renting for a short while. I was only five or six steps from the (stone tiled) landing below when one of my feet slipped off the edge of a step and while I was suspended in the air, I was able to think clearly, "I cannot believe this irreversible, stupid thing is actually happening to me right now." I landed so hard on my tailbone I was worried I'd done real damage, but in the end it was (only) the longest-to-heal, most awful-looking, and most painful bruise I've ever had. So glad you also escaped serious injury!
Oh, man. Stairs. Indiana Jones had it all wrong - not snakes, but stairs. I had covid in November, 20 days of being exhausted. 3 days of feeling pretty good, but still testing positive, followed by 5 days of Krakatoa level volcanic diarrhea. Glad you're a) not nursing a split skull and b) not suffering the slings and arrows of relentless post-covid syndromes.
Glad you are okay and covid is weird.
Thank you!
Oh no feel better! And that Valentine’s piece definitely seems like nonfiction to me.
Thanks, it is impossible to tell on that one!
Glad you are okay! I've taken a spill or two here and can relate--those steps do come at you fast.
I'm so glad you're enjoying "Mercury." I rsvp'd to see Amy Jo Burns at a local bookstore and now I'm even more excited about it!
Ooh, that’s exciting (the event, not necessarily the falls)! Hope you have a great time!
Ha! Thank you! It's in April. I'll definitely keep you posted!
I feel the same way about Covid. I just returned from a work retreat where it was "strongly recommended" to mask on the plane, and I was incensed about it. I understand it's better to be cautious before your entire company convenes in person for four days, but I am so over masks and so over Covid. Except that, you know, Covid is not so over us. In any case, I hope you recover soon, both from Covid and your nasty-sounding fall! At least you made me laugh :)
I can relate to so much of this, from the very first line! Also, your stairs incident is giving me a flashback to a stairs incident from maybe seven years ago. I think I was also foolishly wearing socks and going quickly down some carpeted stairs in a house we were renting for a short while. I was only five or six steps from the (stone tiled) landing below when one of my feet slipped off the edge of a step and while I was suspended in the air, I was able to think clearly, "I cannot believe this irreversible, stupid thing is actually happening to me right now." I landed so hard on my tailbone I was worried I'd done real damage, but in the end it was (only) the longest-to-heal, most awful-looking, and most painful bruise I've ever had. So glad you also escaped serious injury!
Oof, glad you escaped more serious injury as well. My wife broke her tailbone years ago from a similar staircase fall.
Oh, man. Stairs. Indiana Jones had it all wrong - not snakes, but stairs. I had covid in November, 20 days of being exhausted. 3 days of feeling pretty good, but still testing positive, followed by 5 days of Krakatoa level volcanic diarrhea. Glad you're a) not nursing a split skull and b) not suffering the slings and arrows of relentless post-covid syndromes.
Thanks, David! Yeah, I'm hopeful I've gotten off relatively easy this time (with the fall and the disease).