Day 580: health

personal

another day of:

  • waking up feeling like i only got 5 hours of sleep even though i got 7-8
  • having a mild to strong headache depending on the time
  • having no energy
  • wanting to roll around in bed and do nothing
  • sitting down to work and not being able to do much
  • not wanting to exercise or exert any effort

hm. what’s going on?

i better not have freaking covid

speaking of covid, some close friends have been concerned about me going to peru because (1) it’s the country with the highest deaths per capita due to covid and (2) that’s where the lambda variant originated and accounts for >80% of cases

thankfully the death rate is much lower now and the cases are much lower than earlier this year

i’m still going to go because it really feels like this will be the last time i can take a significant break for a while and i don’t think the covid risk is as bad as my friends fear it is (for reference, peru had 60.49 cases per 1 million people yesterday compared to 323.69 cases per 1 million people in the US — assuming there aren’t massive discrepancies with reporting or anything like that, it’s 5x worse here than it is in peru) (source)

if anything, it’d probably be safer for me to leave than to stay

still, my ongoing fatigue and head pain in the last several days is kind of concerning

i hope it is nothing but if it’s not, may i accept it as it is