Doldrums

[kristine_smith]

Two and a half weeks until Thrillerfest, which means not really the doldrums. More like, I should be thinking about what to pack but I can’t face it yet. I have a lot to work to do between now and then, so instead I’m dicking around online in search of bars in NYC that make sazeracs. Taking recs for food trucks and restaurants.

I get a year older

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[e_moon60]

Are you driving, flying, or training to NYC?

I'm in an enforced layoff...not exactly from work, but from the schedule I was keeping. In between rewrite and copy edits, concentrating on recovery and reconditioning. More rest, better food, slowly building exercise because between a humongous rewrite, rain, and Lyme and its treatment, I'm in worse condition than I've been in years. Now it's very hot and dry and BRIGHT. Just got in from first bike ride since this mess started (almost six weeks) and at 9 am it was already hot, sun high in a clear sky.

I hope you have a great time in NYC and expect you will. I do...though I have yet to walk the High Line it's on my list.

[kristine_smith]

Lyme? Damn. Did you mention this on SFFNet--I must've missed it. Did they catch it early, or is it later stages? I hope your recovery proceeds apace

[e_moon60]

Lyme was caught early; started the meds a little less than a week after discovering the attached tick. The "ring" rash was only 3/4 inch across; good thing it was there because I had mistaken the onset headache for one of my sinus migraines relating to weather (which was active right then.) Full 2 week course of Doxycycline. Rash quit expanding, started fading within a few days, kept right on fading. So I should be OK. Helps to have doc (even retired) in the house. I said "This rash has been getting bigger, not going away and it looks like a ring to me." He looked at it and said, "Yeah, that looks like it, all right. When was it I pulled the tick off? Six days--five? I'll go down and pick up some Doxycycline for you." (Pharmacy is 20 miles away in county seat.)

The train IS expensive but I tolerate it better these days. Fewer trips, but arrive in better shape.