a resurgence

So I'm sick again. After a week of only some headache days and the easy-to-fatigue thing---and now that I think about it, a slightly runny nose Tuesday---last night I had chills (that I chalked up to how cold it was outside and that I'd not slept much the night before) and then some sudden GI distress. Went to bed early with that, but saw as I googled horizontally that some 30% of COVIDers ("COVIDees"?) have GI issues as part of long COVID, often not starting until several weeks after infection.

Then in the middle of the night I woke with the crazy sneezing, all that mucus back like I was in the middle of a bad cold, but without the ramping up. And in the morning it was that plus body aches and headache as bad as I'd had on any day of the thing.

The swollen glands are back too. It's the screwiest thing, a virus that rollercoasters.

Glad I didn't go to the store last night. Was gonna get ambitious holiday cooking & baking things. Now instead I've got cookies people brought and the foodstuffs T delivered, including macaroni & cheese you microwave in little cups, kleenex & chicken noodle soup & plenty of caffeine. I have eggs and bread and she brought me some onions, for when I feel like cooking a little. Oh, and a box of the Kellogg's cereal I discovered during the early pandemic days & haven't been able to have cuzza that company's striking workers.

That's one recent piece of really good news, tho. At one point when the union wouldn't take the deal that would screw the newer workers, the company said it was replacing them all, and hired temporary scabs while declaring that the jobs were going to Mexico. It was 10 weeks or so in, on the strike when some signs emerged that the boycott & bad press (& maybe even the Bernie visit) were working, my favorite among them bring the official Kellogg's tweet answering somebody's alert to how they'd taken the company name off the Pop-Tarts packaging. The tweet had some ridiculous claim that it was about research showing that customers focus on the Pop-Tarts name.... and then that tweet got around like wildfire.

The new contract offer had a buncha wins for the union. And no two-tiered crap. Kellogg's made a ton of money in the last few years, probably cuzza the pandemic, and could easily afford to be decent to the workers---who'd been working under insane conditions, long days and often 7 days a week. And that's physical work. In factories during a viral pandemic.

Just real glad the cereal folks got a win.