52 Card Project 2022: Week 15: Immunity

This is slightly late, because I ordinarily do my collages on Friday during my Zoom with my coffee group. This past Friday, however, I was getting ready for Minicon instead. (Minicon will probably be the subject of this week's card, which I’ll do on this coming Friday.)

Anyway: a week ago Friday, I went to the doctor's for my annual checkup and rather rashly decided to load up on three vaccines at once: my second Covid booster, my ten-year tetanus booster, and the pneumococcal vaccine. And lordy, lordy, it absolutely wiped me out. I could barely get off the couch all weekend, which I expected, but I didn't expect to be pretty much useless for the entire week. I was totally exhausted. I lasted barely a half hour at my writing group meeting on Wednesday night, and then the critique group ordered me to go to bed and kicked me off the Zoom.

I tried to comfort myself by reasoning that my immune system was revving up, doing what it needed to do to get ready to handle All The Things. But good heavens. That was rough.

The text on the pillowcase is from a button I once gave Rob (I used to give him one on his Christmas stocking every year).

Image description: Background: a muscular woman with her back to the camera lifts weights. Foreground: a woman lies in bed, holding glasses in one hand, covering her face with a pillow with the other. Overlaid on the pillow are the words "It may look like I'm doing nothing, but on a cellular level I'm really quite busy."

Immunity



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