I am getting tired of being sick!
For about one month now, I have been suffering from a dry cough. Charlie has it, too. We haven’t had a good night’s sleep in many weeks, despite cough and cold remedies.
It’s not Covid-19, according to the doctors (I’m triple-innoculated and I’ve been tested, as well), but rather, they say, some sort of allergic malady of unknown origin. Since my wife has it as well, then I’m speculating that it is due to some environmental cause that hasn’t been here (in Mesquite) for the past three years…because we’ve never experienced anything like it. Our neighbor Sherri Carnicelli has been suffering from this mysterious malady for several months, as well.
I have a theory that might account for all of this.
Recall that there were fierce forest fires in Northern California and Southern Oregon during the Summer which created enormous clouds of smoke that drifted eastward as far as Kentucky. We were vacationing in Southern Oregon during those months when the fires were out of control and we had to drive for two days, in thick smoke, to return to Mesquite, Nevada.
Way back when I was 12 years old, our family lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. The dense redwood forest that we lived in was thick with poison oak, and occasionally some doofus would gather up a pile of the stuff and burn it, dispersing the poisonous oil in the wind, and it would create a health problem for neighbors.
I’m wondering if all of that recent forest fire smoke, which we drove through and which was blotting out the sun in Nevada when we returned home, carried with it some allergens that settled out in our area and which gets whipped up into the air whenever we get strong breezes?
Our neighbor Sherri and husband Galen also vacationed in Oregon (with us) and drove through that smoke on their way home…about a month before we returned.
Sherri has had the same allergic rhinitis that we have for a month longer than us.
Coincidence?
I have been a very healthy guy for the past 73 years, so being tormented by this plague is a new experience for me. Being sick SUCKS.
Let’s hope it’s not Covid-21.