This morning I played my usual game. Without asking either Mr. Google or Miss Alexa, I tried to figure the day of the week. I saw the Sunday paper on the floor. Is it Sunday still? I woke up on the couch with both dogs snuggled. Had I napped or slept there all night? The back door was open. All night? My cable box showed the time: 11:30. The sky is blue. The sun is bright. Last thing I remembered was snow and rain. I got it!! I figured it out! Ta Da! It’s Monday!!!

I do feel better except I still have a heavy cough which has settled in my chest. I have a small bit of energy so I may bring trash to the car trunk but I don’t want to go hog wild. I am going to change my bed. I’m thinking slowly with breaks between sheets.

I have a tiny grocery order coming. Soon enough I’ll have bread, cream, coffee filters and Snickers, with a buy two get two coupon so I did. Did I mention java chip ice cream, for my throat of course.

Yesterday, a student from way back saved me. She dropped by and brought me presents. She brought me conversation, someone to talk to for a bit. She brought her chicken soup with pasta which I yummed my way through. That was my first food in almost four days, and it was scrumptious. I even have some left for today. She salved my spirit with a box of chocolates. She surprised me with drawing markers and drawing paper which appealed to my inner muse. She made my day, even my week!!

In Ghana, we always discussed our ailments. I’d see a volunteer I hadn’t seen in a while, and we’d stop to catch up. How’s everything at your school, village, town, city or site? What’s new? We never discussed the common ailments we all shared like diarrhea and catarrh, a dry season malady. They were givens. We discussed spectacular ailments like tropical rashes, worms, dengue fever and cholera when it appeared. We chuckled at Friedman’s disease named after a friend who had a horrid tropical skin rash. We had made up the name of the disease but it became part of the disease lexicon as if it were real. What a legacy!!

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