Week 10 - 75D/I knew this would happen
One thing I have learned over my many years of being alive on this earth is that no matter what I have going on, if I get sick…my entire schedule and routine go out the window.
I’m not sure if this is a result of my childhood, I’m sure it probably is because aren’t all of our weird quirks and oddities all a result of our childhood? I don’t really remember anything specific about being sick when I was a kid and how my parents addressed that. I’m prone to allergies so I was actually sick quite a bit as a child and now even though I’m on a steady diet of daily allergy medicine, I do still get colds every now and then.
Luckily, I don’t get them very often, much less often actually now that we do our best to stay away from all things sugar and processed foods. I used to get one every quarter or so when the seasons changed, but in the past 3-4 years I’ve probably only had maybe three or four total.
One of which was this last week.
I felt the tickle in the back of my throat on Labor Day right after we ate lunch and went to the movies. The throat soreness steadily got worse in the afternoon and by the time bedtime arrived, I felt like I was swallowing knives.
Before the cold arrived (it was just a cold, I took a at home Covid test and everything) it was a super fun weekend (our last with Travis and Jessica) where the boys began work on our outdoor patio and Jess and I spent the afternoon doing what fills our souls….driving around running errands and doing some shopping.
I got a couple of crepe myrtle trees for the front of the house, some random house items and also found the perfect chair for the corner of our bedroom at Home Shack.
Paul and Travis played with an excavator and bobcat in the back yard - got thwarted by some rain and otherwise had a fantastic time. Since I was sick the majority of the week, I didn’t really do any walking or stretching because my energy levels were really low. I also was having difficulty breathing because my nose was so stuffed up.
When we started this challenge, I had a feeling that if I did end up getting sick during the time it would interfere with the completion of the challenge. Since things kind of fell off the rails before then, I won’t really know how I would have responded otherwise. If I had done everything perfectly up until that point, would I have had the determination and motivation to keep it up despite being sick? Or would I have taken it as a sign that my body needed to rest and recover? My guess is that I would have done the latter, but as I said before, I guess we will never know.
