{"id":248,"date":"2021-07-16T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:39:21","slug":"10-lonely-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"10 Lonely Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Well, here I am &#8212; in quarantine with COVID. We\u2019re not sure exactly how I got it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>It\u2019s possible that I got it on July 4, when we spent the day in Healdsburg, and on the Russion River &#8212; including hanging at the downtown Healdsburg square along with hundreds of other people. But I\u2019m the only one from our group who got it, as far as we know.<\/li>\r\n<li>That weekend, we dined in SF with Kathleen and Calvin, who then spent a day at our house. They didn&#8217;t get it.<\/li>\r\n<li>We also had dinner with Tom and Myrita Henry. Don\u2019t think they have it, yet. (They didn&#8217;t get it.)<\/li>\r\n<li>I went to a store or two, maskless per current mandates.<\/li>\r\n<li>My other outings were our new health club &#8212; where I went every day.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Regardless, it\u2019s been 7 days since first symptoms, and I\u2019m supposed to quarantine for 10 days from first symptoms &#8212; so 3 more days to go.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>How am I doing? I feel like I have a head cold. Bit of a headache, little snotty, tired &#8212; but I\u2019m taking over-the-counter medicine to counter those cold-like symptoms. So all that\u2019s left is tired. I\u2019m guessing I got the delta variant. Either way, good thing I\u2019m vaccinated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I\u2019m still working, but largely lounging about &#8212; with frequent pauses. Getting better each day. I\u2019m thinking that, by the end of my quarantine, I\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Biggest pain is keeping away from Ann, who\u2019s tested negative so far. I\u2019m holed up in the master bedroom, and have moved my work desk in here &#8212; so I\u2019m great, except for food (which Ann brings me). A bit lonely, and bored\u2026<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>One interesting side benefit &#8212; my knee. I hurt my knee about 1.5 months ago now. It\u2019s been getting better, but slowly. This forced confinement is (I think) giving it time to fully heal. Yay!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Three. More. Days&#8230;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am &#8212; in quarantine with COVID. We\u2019re not sure exactly how I got it. It\u2019s possible that I got it on July 4, when we spent the day in Healdsburg, and on the Russion River &#8212; including hanging at the downtown Healdsburg square along with hundreds of other people. But I\u2019m the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 Lonely Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}