So, I’ve missed 8.5 days of work so far. Beginning Tuesday, two weeks ago, I began calling in sick to work, feeling sick as a dog, hacking up a lobe of my lungs now and then, and feeling pretty hazy due to medication. I was feeling a touch better this week, so I went in for a half day at work on Wednesday, hoping to get caught up on some really overdue stuff. Like, launching a website that should’ve launched long ago by now.

Then I went to church and taught my final class on “Heaven and Hell.” By the time class was over, I was drained (as always after being exposed to more than two people for an hour!), but still feeling pretty good. I had some powerful cough drops, so I wasn’t wracked by a single coughing bout all night.

I got