I was planning to fix the delicious Christmas dinner for my roommate and me and as luck would have it, my roommate fell ill with a cold the day before Christmas Eve day.
When you have a respiratory infection it is very uncomfortable to eat almost as uncomfortable as if you have a digestive infection or a stomach flu. Believe me I know. I was sick four times last winter including having covid over Christmas last year. Thankfully I'm not sick but I'm recovering from some recent dental work... That extraction on the left of a wisdom tooth and the root canal in the right. I don't know if that root canal is failing or not I'm having some pain. It's manageable by reiki and pain medication. I'll have to call them tomorrow and possibly have it checked out because I have an appointment to have a crown delivered this Friday and I'm not sure if that's appropriate or not because of a possible root canal failure. I checked in with my roommate this morning and he sounded like his voice was half gone and I know from experience when you're feeling that way you do not feel like swallowing solid food! So I'm going to postpone dinner. Well I just heard him sneeze twice. He's been sneezing and sneezing. I don't know what they've been engineering with these viruses. I'm a little scared somebody put sneeze powder in the latest cold. He sounds miserable he sounds like he's really sick. I wish I could give him some Benadryl but he reacts very strongly to drugs like that.
I retreated into the back room and I'm watching a Hallmark movie but that got a little bit boring so I switched to a Christmas organ concert with Tabernacle choir on YouTube. I feel selfish but this is self care for me right now.
When you're sneezing you're very contagious and I don't want to catch it even with my mask on. And I also can't interact with him very well if I sense that I need to leave him alone I also don't want to give him a feeling that he's been abandoned.
Wishing everybody safe holidays I know this is a passing thing.
Carol