Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Life is pretty mellow as a shut in, so there hasn't been much eventful.  But popular points of recovery that need a "week 4" statement might include:

Exercise: Officially my regimen is 2 walks per day (but somehow am only scheduling one). Shoveling snow (that was going to melt anyway) has proven very engaging, though. My shoveling endurance is vastly improved since the early days. In my first days home I had to take tiny shovelsful and could only heave them a foot--nibbling, not shoveling.  Whereas on Sunday I felt near normal shoveling ~4" of heavy snow.

Hair: Continues to fall out; Wearing a ballcap now (Concord New London Style Pizza is my favorite team), mostly because my lung-protective antibiotic makes me sun-sensitive and they want me covered up.  Were it entirely up to me, I would wear a fleecy neckwarmer as a donut-shaped hat (open to the sky in the middle). Between the "no sun" medical requirement and the fashion-derision of my family, I adopted the ballcap.

Gut: Between 2 Pepcids/day and 1/day antibiotic, my gut remains off-kilter. Everything within my ribcage and gut still feels wooden or maybe like a sandbag. It isn't pain or even particularly annoying.  It is likely that the Vili are not there, and they have a lot of jobs in digesting, absorbing, and moving food.

Contagions: So far, so good.  I wore my mask and hat to a neighborhood open house (as one does).

Medical Tests: Tomorrow: Special lung test (inhaling through a metered hose...testing to

Cleanliness: The family has done a good-enough job to keep me from getting sick (and we've done a good job of keeping sick people two or more degrees away).

Vocational Training: I'm working on my Python, R, (data analytics) and Salesforce.com, and old-fas

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