I was 12 when I got chicken pox. They say the older you are if you get it the worse it is, but I wasn't really that sick with it. There were other kids half my age who were probably acting like they were at death's door from it. Back when I getting chicken pox wasn't seen as that big of a deal and lots of kids got it, then they got better after a few days and then they were immune. But according to what I've read about it recently it is actually very serious and life-threatening, like measles, and I'm lucky to have survived it after only a week without any complications. And now I have to worry about the shingles, which is really painful and horrible and makes chicken pox look like a couple of nasty mosquito bites. My mom got vaccinated for shingles and she told me the side effects were really bad and she ended up getting shingles anyway, so I guess I'm screwed. It's like you can't get sick with anything anymore, everything is deadly.
Speaking of which, I've had a bad chest cold all week. Maybe it's acute bronchitis. Or covid, because everything is covid. I don't know for sure since haven't gone to a doctor, I haven't even left my apartment all week because I've been too sick, it's freezing out, and even bundled up with a mask on my lungs could have shut down on me, and the health care is abysmal, if I went to outpatients they wouldn't care if I was literally dying. The first few nights I had anxiety, partly because I was coughing and congested which messed up my sleep, but also because I was worried it could be covid or it would get even worse or that I might relapse.
But I've digressed...