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I usually post only fannish things or other happy things, and I usually don't post about IRL things like health concerns. This is going to be one of the rare exceptions, so if you're here for the fannish things or other happy things and if you don't want to read something about my IRL, then hit the back button now.

Thing one: I had gotten this far into the pandemic era without contracting COVID, but then one of my co-workers in my department came back from vacation with the unwanted souvenir of the highly transmissible COVID variant, and three-fifths of my department -- including me -- caught it. So now I'm isolating at home on mandatory sick-leave.

Thing two: in 2019 my spouse had a life-saving surgery that involved what was supposed to be a temporary ileostomy lasting only a few months and to be reversed in the Spring of 2020, but COVID happened and the surgery was postponed and postponed from 2020 up until it finally got scheduled for this August, for less than two weeks from now. So now I've got the worry about whether my spouse is going to have COVID because of me and then the surgery will be postponed again.

Add to that my long-term concerns about prolonged COVID symptoms -- especially the fatigue -- affecting me while I juggle my full-time job outside the home, the upcoming task of being my spouse's full-time caregiver during his after-surgery recovery at home, and the physical tasks of home maintenance which will be 100% on me...and I am thinking about that saying "when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on".