15 August

Covid Journal, Monday, August 15: Tested Positive, Can’t Stop Coughing. Best Thing Is To Take Some Flower Photos. Maria Is Almost Back To Herself. Trump’s Best Lie Ever

by Jon Katz

I tested positive for Covid-19 this morning and can’t stop coughing. I thought the best thing to do was go out and take some flower photos and then call a doctor. I bid both things. I have a virtual phone appointment just before noon, and I expect she’ll want me to get an anti-body pill later today.

My biggest problem is that I can’t stop coughing, which gets old quickly.

The flowers helped, for sure. Color and light, color and light. Maria is almost back to normal this morning. She seems to herself again.

( I can’t help while I’m coughing but to wonder how many different excuses and lies Donald Trump has for hiding top secret documents in the palace safe or how many conspiracy theories his Enablers can spew on his behalf.

The Democrats are very lucky to have these clowns to campaign against.  It looks like he’ll save them again. My favorite Trump lie of all times- there are so many too choose from- is that he de-classified Top Secret Documents in his head before leaving the White House, maybe waking up that squirrel who lives in the orange nest on the top of his head. Pinocchio is rising in his grave.)

Keep smiling, people; life is too short to never laugh at how ridiculous we humans can be.

 

 

Zinnia’s are amazing flowers. I call this photo The Soul Of A Zinnia.

The lines and shapes here always catch my eye. Something so soft and peaceful. It’s like entering another world.

 

 

Zinnias are the adolescents of my garden, sassy and invidialistic. They go their own way. I’m afraid that’s all I can do for now. Time to lie back down on the sofa in the living room and wait for the doctors call. Thanks, everybody, for watching and reading. This was inevitable, perhaps I won’t have to worry about it any longer..

 

 

 

8 Comments

  1. Hi Jon – Sorry for your health problems and discomfort – thanks for letting us know what is going on and keeping us up to date.
    As usual your flower photos are wonderful today —
    Glad Maria is getting better . You will too….
    Take care and do whatever the doctors say and you will get better!!!!
    Gail

  2. The coughing with Covid is no joke. I was so exhausted I did not want to go to the emergency room. But did. I was put on oxygen. It helped. I think I would not have lost 6 weeks of my life if I had been tested for Covid and hospitalized.
    Who knows who gained access to our classified information. I’m so sick of lies. Those documents should have never left the White House. And yet people still believe Trump’s lies and the fools are sending him money. And poor Joe gets blamed for everything.

  3. As I scrolled down the page and slowly saw that first flower turn into three-eyed, wild medicine man, holding his prey in his hands as he munched away on his snack! Another otherworldly experience!

  4. I tested positive on Saturday and I must say the Paxlovid has made a big difference. I hope you can get it soon.

    Take care of yourself!

    Carol

  5. That first photo is truly eye-popping. The color is amazing! I think my retinas lit up. ? Jon, you outdid yourself with this one!

  6. Try a couple tablespoons of raw honey. I’m sure you’ve got a wide selection of local honey out in that area.. that often seems to work better for me than over the counter cough medicines. Not sure if it’ll be effective against Covid cough but it’s worth a shot.

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