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Personal update

It’s been a little while since I’ve written about my current personal health situation. Perhaps that’s because when you’re feeling pretty good – it’s an out-of-sight, out-of-mind matter.

My cough, while still not gone, is much improved. My breathing is also doing pretty well. I’m barely using my emergency inhaler. And, perhaps best of all, my joint pain is much improved. It’s still there sometimes, but it’s much less frequent and much less severe. I can go for a walk, or to the gym or whatever, and I’m not miserable.

My fatigue has also been better these past few weeks. I still don’t think I’m as peppy as a lot of other people my age, but I’m not coming home every night and crashing for several hours.

Between feeling better, and having an intern that’s taking some of the pressure off my day, I’ve actually been catching up on my personal life. You have no idea how many things go untaken care of when you’re working 70 plus hours a week and feeling sick all the time. It’s been months since I’ve been able to even think about doing some of the stuff I’m doing.

I could still really use a solid week to do nothing but clean and sort in my apartment. But, oh well.

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