While my main source of revenue is working in healthcare, the irony is that we don’t get sick leave. So if we are forced to stay home or call in sick, there is no monetary compensation. Just over a week almost two weeks we started getting cases of covid. I have a relatively good immune system naturally and also from working in healthcare, but eventually got sick. Now I have never gotten the shot or taken anything related to it. When all the fearmongering was going around concerning it, I thought it was fishy that they were both rushing it without proper protocols and then threatening peoples livelihoods. Also the medication they advertised to help with covid, Paxlovid was tried by my step-father, who also works in the medical industry, and it made him feel worse.
What do I do when I’m sick? I always do by most necessary chores. Feed the animals, milk the goats, collect the eggs. Last night I even moved the babies shelter to cover their hay as a severe storm rolled in. The irony is as i was tying down the top tarp on the back so that it wouldn’t flip up with extra twine from the hay bales, the wind started picking up, it started sprinkling, then my phone in my pocket started screeching to warn me of a tornado and to get into a shelter, then the rain just dumped on me. I rushed to get inside and also find my dog Mars. Thankfully there was no tornado, just the beginning of circulation. But I was really, really wet. And I still had to waterbath my cherry tomatoes.
Other things I did prior to this was move my billy goats that have been working all summer to clear up that back part of my mom and David’s property. It is very wooded and drops down into a dry creek, that in the past when the snow has melted has looked like one of those rivers with rapids. I had my mom help out a little because by the time I am done moving the boys I am too tired to chase them. So she bribes them with her chicken crack and they go along happily. I use electric fencing to keep them in. The only problem is they like to knock down smaller trees onto the fence, but thankfully don’t know they could walk over the fence.
I also made my tv bookshelf functional again, although it is not finished yet. I had stained it. Applied wipe-on poly, which I still don’t know if I like because it kept getting air bubbles and when I would sand it smooth it would look bad. It also kept on getting rough after application. So I will probably go for a thicker polyurethane to finish it.
Ultimately, I just try to use my time wisely to catch up on things that need to be done while resting. I binged watched The Lord of the Rings and some of the spin-offs. It was nice watching even the newer show not having a bunch of explicit scenes. I finally refinished my mittens I started last winter. These mittens are so nice because you cannot feel the cold through them, even when you touch a cold object.
Now I just need to make something for my step-mother turning 60 and finish cleaning my house while I watch the new episodes from The Rings of Power. Is this something you do when you’re sick? What do you usually do when you are stuck home?
The Black Cherry Azalea 