{"id":56347,"date":"2022-08-19T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=56347"},"modified":"2022-08-19T07:43:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:43:45","slug":"wrasslin-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=56347","title":{"rendered":"Wrasslin&#8217; Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc and the Durango Moon<\/p>\n<p>Friday gratefuls: O2 sats still good with concentrators. Conifer Med. Calling me each evening to see how I&#8217;m doing. Marilyn who brought chicken soup. Kep. Snuggling. Sick time. Out of the flow of time. Waiting. A sunny Colorado morning. Tara. Susan. Tom.<\/p>\n<p>Sparks of Joy and Awe: Oxygen concentrators<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Day 4 with the other big C. My head is clear. No fever. Weak though. Moving around to feed Kep wears me out. No appetite. I am able to keep my O2 sats in the safe range with my oxygen concentrators. I find it hard to stay focused for long. House is getting messy as my usual pick up and clean up patterns have seemed too hard. I feel like I&#8217;m getting incrementally better. Head ache. Really wanted to give this whole experience a miss.<\/p>\n<p>I work hard at not being defined by my illnesses. Right now, for this week or so, I am defined by Covid. It&#8217;s basically shut me down. I get up, feed Kep, come downstairs to sit in my chair. If it&#8217;s a particular active day, I might get back up and go fix some food.<\/p>\n<p>Quarantine is easy. Like my life most days anyhow. As I wish it.<\/p>\n<p>So far, and may it stay this way, this is far easier than the flu I had back in 2018. That was harsh illness. Knocked me down and almost out. Lost 15 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not feeling like saying much else. Oh, maybe this. My spirits are good. I hope to see the end point of this wrasslin&#8217; match in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc and the Durango Moon Friday gratefuls: O2 sats still good with concentrators. Conifer Med. Calling me each evening to see how I&#8217;m doing. Marilyn who brought chicken soup. Kep. Snuggling. Sick time. Out of the flow of time. Waiting. A sunny Colorado morning. Tara. Susan. Tom. Sparks of Joy and Awe: Oxygen concentrators &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=56347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wrasslin&#8217; Match<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4391,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56348,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56347\/revisions\/56348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}