Physical Health or Lack Thereof: Well, crap, I relapsed

Much to my great dismay, I overdid it with a task that involved heavy lifting and dust, and relapsed so badly that I missed the last week of my Spanish class.  I have an appointment for a chest CT tomorrow, and an appointment with a pulmonologist on October 6th, so here's hoping that my even worse case of long covid won't become an ongoing situation.

Physical Health or Lack Thereof: Not dead yet!

One of the things I love most about online classes is the low threshold for attendance. I missed class last week due to my recent covid infection (the sequel nobody wanted!), as I was just too sick and brainless. If it were an IRL class, I would definitely be missing this week: partly because I would be concerned about spreading my infection, but mostly because getting bathed, dressed, and to a class would take all of my limited energy reserves, leaving none for participating in the class. 

Today after spinning up for a bit, I managed to get myself excited for returning to Spanish class by watching the just-released Geography Now! Uruguay episode. After that, I went through the chapter I missed, and managed to do most of the homework. By no means am I completely caught up, and I have definitely lost ground from not practicing conjugations and vocabulary while sick. Nevertheless, I stand a pretty good chance of attending class tomorrow, even if I show up unshowered and in pajamas.

Here’s hoping that I keep creeping back towards my previous suboptimal levels of functionality, so that I can get back to trying to rehabilitate my brain via language learning! 

Every Struggle Has Setbacks

Despite taking many precautions after he tested positive, I unfortunately caught COVID from my husband.  It seems to be a mild case so far, which is understandable as I've had at least two or three vaccines and already had it once.  However, it means I might not have the mental or physical energy to keep up with my Spanish as much as I want to, to say nothing of my blog.  I do have some draft entries that function as background information, so I might fish some of those out and post them.  Watch this space for updates!