I love browsing through different communities, primarily because I often find inspiration to post. Today I read a post by @dswigle and saw that it came from Silver Bloggers. I've seen this community for a while now but didn't realize I fit into this group. Shallow and rushed as I am, I thought it referred to silver holders and as I only have a wedding ring and a silver ring, I thought it wasn't for me.
Now I get it, I have quite a bit of this silver that the community is referring to and I think I have some to say about this beautiful part of our lives.
That's how I came up with this first post for Silver Bloggers in which I will try to talk about this Sunday which was different.
Because I thought I was going to die.
Now, because it has passed, in the part of the world where I live, Eastern Europe, it is already Monday and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I didn't die.
It was a Sunday spent in bed and with my eyes on the window. That was the best I could do.
I have to say at the outset that I am a bit of a hypochondriac and that explains the morbid thoughts that have been running through my head. But what happened to me?
I woke up very early Sunday morning to catch the sunrise. In five minutes it all happens, if I'm not careful I miss the moment. I live on the outskirts of town and the neighborhood is full of houses, with small spaces between them, meaning there is no chance of seeing a sunrise when it rises on the horizon. Because there is no horizon for me, however, there is a small space where I can see the sun quite early at sunrise.
That's all, anyway I'm happy I can see the sunrise looking out the window, I consider this a gift life has given me.
Not for a long time, I can't figure out how long now but I don't think for more than half an hour the sun is quite high in the sky and dazzling already, it looks like a bright, blurry blob.
It was very hard to take these photos. A terrible headache, sore throat, coughing with chest pain, dizziness, and pain all over my body. I've had these conditions before when I had the flu but not this intense and painful.
In the past, I was not afraid of the flu and I remember I never got vaccinated. For me, the flu was a mild illness and besides, I had the example of a work colleague who got a flu vaccination every autumn and got the flu every time. We used to joke and laugh a lot about it.
But now the situation has changed radically. My wife and I had covid last November. It was very hard and we had a very difficult recovery from the illness after about six months. Then came the vaccines, we had all three plus a flu shot...
However, I woke up on Sunday in a miserable state, I was worse than when I had covid.
I thought I'd take Covid again, especially since the Omicron variant has already arrived in Romania, many thousands of kilometers away, only a few days after it was discovered in South Africa! And the symptoms of this new variant I found were identical to what I was feeling. My mood was down, we are in the age group most vulnerable to this virus.
It was one of the hardest and ugliest Sundays I have ever experienced. I used to think that I used to write about beautiful and sublime Sundays, I always found something to justify the name, but now I couldn't think that way anymore. I couldn't even drink coffee.
Friends and relatives, or relatives of friends have died from covid and we saw how quickly it happened, health deteriorated in just a few days. That justifies my fear, I realized that now any threat, any health problem can be fatal, and I have to think this way. I thought I would never see my granddaughter...
This is the main regret that I will leave at some point, hopefully, later. I say that because I got over Sunday and now, as I write, I feel better. I also did a quick test which came back negative and I became more optimistic.
Moderately optimistic, I'm waiting to see that the pain and this unpleasant condition will pass. My nature that easily swings from optimism to pessimism makes me like this and my hypochondria "helps" me too.
I'm sorry I started here with such a dark story when I should have been showing the beautiful parts of senior life. However, that has happened now and I wanted to be honest and soon I hope to be able to talk about the good ones too.
Also written for
#sublimesunday, topic proposed by @c0ff33a
&
#beautifulsunday, topic proposed by @ace108
Welcome to Silver Bloggers @bluemoon. Your photos are beautiful, thank you for sharing this with our 'young at heart' silvers; yep it's the hair that's slowly turning silver and not about silver coins or jewelry at all :)
We all get a fright every time we feel a little under the weather, wondering if it's Covid, so you're not alone. Thank goodness you tested negative :)
Silver-Blond Lizzie
Thanks so much, @lizelle! Thanks for your welcome and understanding. I think I should have written something brighter and more relaxing for my first post here but my experience was too recent and intense to ignore. Save it for next time!
I hope this passes and you feel better soon, with us all having friends who have suffered and passed from Covid I think it adds to us all being open to feeling a touch of hypochondria
As for Silver bloggers I to meet the criteria and have joined it, but I have bene slack I think I have only ever done one post in that community
Thanks, I feel better, I'll see tomorrow if I'm on the right track.
I don't know how much I will write here either but I saw that there is a community we fit into and I tried to say that I understand that I am part of this group.
I see some great posts in this community and I think they have weekly challenges
I know many in the community so I really should be more active in it
That's right, there are many of our old colleagues. I saw that it also refers to photography so it would be easy to post there too, that is if you consider it good to be in more places.
I should I just forget to when I prepare my post but I will going forward now and again
I hope you feel better soon. These days we tend to think the worst when we feel sick, even if we aren't hypochondriacs. ;)
I'm sure you will like this community. And just as we share our joys make us feel happy, also when we write about our anxieties, these relieve a little.
Take care, rest, and get well soon. :)
Thank you! I'm sure I will like the community, I know many who are part of it.
Life is made up of good and bad, I think it all needs to be shown, discussed.
Yep, we have to show and discuss the good and the bad. You're right :)
Atmospheric stills !LUV
@barski(2/3) gave you
I have no silver hair but white ones are popping out now and then.
I had COVID in September and the taste of my coffee hasn't really come back.
Hope you get getting your coffee OK.
Well, white will turn to silver. I too had problems with the taste but especially the smell, which only returned to normal a few months ago. Tomorrow will hopefully be the coffee day.
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