Trying to Get Back in Gear

[mike]

These past few months have been taxing. Health issues have really held me back. Add a nasty cold that started over a week ago, and you almost want to throw in the towel. But I'm feeling better, now.

I started two different sweet pepper gardens in the last two weeks. I have five open gardens. Those will all be peppers.

Tomorrow, I will start Biker Billy Hybrid Jalapenos. Over the next couple of weeks, I will plant Diablito Peppers, Jalapeno M peppers, Hot Fish Peppers and Pepperoncini Peppers.

A month later I'm starting AG Ghost Peppers under a non-AG grow light.

[Shawn]

Mike you really have been having a tough go of it.  Between that and work and now with a cold.  I am sending you Get Better and Feel Better ibes.

I am happy to see you are feeling better but we want you at your best!

I will be following all your gardens and happy to see you getting back into your groove

The void is no more! YAY!

[mike]

It's strange, I went through two decades without a single cold (that I remember). Now I'm approaching 60 and they are catching up with me.

[MaryL]

Aw, Mike, I’m glad to hear you are on the mend.   And, I’m super happy to know your cold wasn’t this horrible flu.  Welcome back.  You were missed. 

[mike]

No, it wasn't the flu, there was no fever. But I don't remember a cold that ever hit so hard. Today was the first day that I had two meals. The last eight days I had only one meal a day, no appetite. The weird part is I gained two pounds, go figure.

[Shawn]

Drink lots of water, take lots of Vitamin C and if you can keep Airborne or Zinc on hand. 

This is the worse season for the flu and colds.  We have so many patients coming in with the flu and already sent two to the hospital.  If you go to any public places PLEASE take sanitizer with you.  Keep hands away from face.  Wash hand thoroughly.  If anyone sneezes turn and cover your face.  Spores travel fast and even if you do not think they are in your range you may be surprised.

We do not need to get sick or sicker. 



End of my PSA 


Back to normal Programing ...

[MaryL]

The couple pounds could be water retention due to dehydration.  Our systems get all kinds of messed up when we’re sick, especially with illness for that long.  I can’t stand getting sick anymore not even because of the illness itself, but for the lingering complications that last far beyond the illness itself.  It takes forever to bounce back even after you’re “better“.

[mike]

The one thing I have consumed a lot of is water. I keep a water bottle by my bed. I usually drink half of the 20 oz. overnight. I've been having to refill it about 1 am every morning.

[Kate]

I've got to tell you, I just turned 60 on January 20, and I've found the same thing. My family could be passing around a cold or bug, and I'd NEVER get it. This last year my Petri dish 21 year old daughter who semi-regularly is fighting a cold, passed it on to me twice in 3 months. I also got the flu, which flattened me like a pancake. I don't remember having the flu in at least the last 40 years, if not longer. I have an air exchanger in my house. Among other reasons, it helps keep from having a "sick house" in the winter months when the house is closed up. And yet...

I'm not amused with this aging thing at all.

I ain't too amused either. I ditto.

[drbanks]

I'm trying to remember when my bones and joints didn't creak.  And gravity rhymes with witch.  And yes, I seem to catch more colds as well.

[Shawn]

I have been catching colds more also now that we are talking about it.  Bad enough I can catch them easy with my low immune system but this past year and a half I have been more sick.

[MaryL]

I have always gotten sick multiple times a year.  But this year, with these monster colds and flus, I am shocked I have escaped it thus far.  (Please don’t let that be a jinx...).  But, everything else is falling off the truck.