Bryan College Science Teacher
The student in the foreground had a severe case of anorexia
and had to leave school shortly after this picture was made.
(Click to enlarge)
So, I have the dreaded virus. What can I say? It sucks.
Actually, I'm not very sick, although Saturday I
thought I might be coming down with pneumonia. I had a mild case of pneumonia
about 25 years ago and it felt much the same -- drowsiness, heaviness in my
legs, overall fatigue, low-grade fever. Sunday I felt better, and Monday Louise
and I went to a doc-in-a-box and had the tests. I got the rapid test, which was
positive, and Louise got the send-away test, which is slower but more reliable. (Got her results Tuesday evening and she is also positive.) We have both been far more sick than this, especially including the time we both got a stomach bug in El Salvador, but it's still no fun.
At this stage it mostly resembles a head cold with a high chest congestion.
On Monday, December 14th, we spent the afternoon shopping for our next home on an RV dealer's lot. It was 40 degrees, with a lazy wind blowing (a lazy wind is one that can't be bothered to go around you -- it just goes right through you) and we both got thoroughly chilled. So our resistance was down, and it's possible we may have picked up the bug from the surfaces we touched in checking out many different fifth-wheel trailers. Or maybe not. Anyway, we got it.
I made a decision early on not to live in fear of a politicized pandemic with an actual death rate of .05 percent (although it's a little higher for my age group) that has been weaponized by the left to defeat a great president and subjugate the American people. My son Rob has a very concise column on Townhall.com about this. Check it out at https://townhall.com/columnists/robjenkins/2020/12/22/why-wont-you-stupid-people-believe-science-n2581934
The virus is an inconvenience, to be sure. Especially now. On January 4th our new trailer will be ready for occupancy at a nice travel trailer park and we'll start moving our stuff in. We have to be out of our house by the 11th so the estate sale people can set up for the big sale, and the sale of our house itself will close on January 19th. Busy days ahead. No time to be sick.
But as always, we take life as it comes and are looking ahead to the future. We'll take some time to reflect on our years in McLemore Cove (I'll be writing more about this soon) and then we'll move on; always eager to see what's around the next bend in the road.
Blog Note: I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at alifeinphotography.blogspot.com. I'm trying to build up my readership, so if you're reading this on Facebook and like what I write, would you please consider sharing my posts?
(Photograph copyright David B. Jenkins
2020)
Soli Gloria Deo
To the glory of God alone
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ReplyDeleteHope you and Louise are continuing on the mend from the coronavirus. My wife and I believe we were infected a year ago on a 14-day cruise. Got back from that and had some horrible coughs (the "coughing up a lung" type of cough) and went to see our doc. Of course then SARS-CoV-2 was not hardly a blip on the horizon. Neither of us coughed up anything, no fever, shortness of breath, just the cough which eventually passed. The doc did do an x-ray of my chest as, at 72, pneumonia was a possibility. The result was my lungs were "grossly normal" which was surprising because I smoked Camel non-filters for over 20 years!
ReplyDeleteInteresting concept for your blog, Seagrove. I hope you'll keep it up. I restarted my blog in December, 2019, not knowing if I could/would keep it up, but now I'm up to 165 posts since the restart.
DeleteIt has not been a good year at, including President Trump's victory probably taken away by voter fraud. The one bad thing that has happened to you (Chinese Kung Flu) hasn't found us yet. I'm glad you two weren't too sick with it. Your "doc-in-a-box" analogy is funny. What town are you going to be living in? We plan to come back to Georgia in 2021 or 2022 and hopefully we can come by there with our travel trailer when we make our Georgia tour.
ReplyDeleteGreat president? I admire your photography writing so I am curious what you find "great" about this president. Is it the 340,000+ American deaths from his mismanagement of the virus? Is it his past relationships with porn stars? Not sure how that jives with your recent writings on Jesus, etc.? How about the corruption? The golf? The inability to string two or three clear sentences together? What is great about this president?
ReplyDeleteOne of the great things about Mr. Trump is his ability to draw trolls like you out from under their rocks.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad and a bit terrifying when seemingly kind, empathetic writers turn out to be this way. The only way I can explain it to myself is successful brainwashing over the last decades. I do hope you come to reconsider your views at some point. (For example, is an obvious blind hate for 'the left, who is out to get you', really who you want to be as a person?)
ReplyDeleteTrolls? Grow up. You know nothing about me. I have a law degree, my own law practice, a happy wife and two kids. I feel sorry for you Trump supporters. You can't even articulate why you like him. My guess is latent racism. If there is another explanation, please do tell.
ReplyDeleteWow! Where to start?! First, thank you for your kind words about my photography and writing. They are appreciated.
ReplyDeleteIf I may ask very kindly, why do you sign yourself "Anonymous?" In 25 years on the internet I have never signed myself as "Anonymous." Not one single time. If I'm not willing to put my name on it, I don't post it.
You say I know nothing about you. That's true; I don't know anything about you except what you write. Just as you know nothing about me other than what I have written. Yet, you assume that I may be brainwashed, or that I may have a blind hate for the left, or even latent racism.
I will tell you a little more about myself. I was born in southern Indiana in 1937, during the second Roosevelt administration. My parents came from poor people on both sides -- my maternal grandfather worked in the stone quarries around Bedford for a dollar a day.
I grew up on a run-down farm in Martin County, Indiana, where we were poor, but not intellectually poor, because my parents were intelligent and readers. They encouraged us to read, and we did.
I went south to work my way through college at the age of 18, eventually earning a master's degree. I have always been steeped in history and in the principles which made America unique among the nations. I lived much of my life during the cold war era and well understood what it was about. I have seen the effects of Marxism first-hand.
In March, 1990, just a few months after the fall of the Berlin wall, my wife and I spent three weeks in Eastern Europe, producing a documentary. I posted the story on my blog in 14 installments, from March 11 to April 10.
In those days many thought Communism was finished, along with the Soviet Union. But as I said at the time, Marxism is not dead, it is alive and well and living in the classrooms and faculty lounges of America's colleges and universities, indoctrinating generations of young Americans with its lies.
I well understand that the left hates Mr. Trump because he interrupted the progress of its long march through the institutions of this nation. They really thought it was in their grasp, but the American people had other ideas.
So, why do I support Mr. Trump? As Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, "Let me count the ways. . ."
1. Mr. Trump has espoused those principles which made America free and great.
2. Mr. Trump has kept his campaign promises to the limits of his ability.
I'm spending way more time on this than I can afford to, because we are in the middle of a move. But here are a few points. I can come up with a lot more.
He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Everyone said the middle east would go up in flames, but it didn't.
He is getting us out of foreign wars, not into more of them.
Illegal immigration has been reduced to a relative trickle.
He cut taxes. His policies created the most vibrant economy since the post-world war two expansion, but with the lowest unemployment numbers in history for black people and women.
He is creating peaceful alliances in the middle east, even as we speak.
He has appointed judges who believe the constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning.
He rebuilt the military.
He has eliminated multitudes of restrictive regulations that hamstrung American businesses and limited the freedoms of citizens.
There is so much more that I could list, but I'm out of time.
Kind regards,
Dave