Can't believe it's January 2021, and I'm hoping for a new year that's nothing like ... 2020.
OK ... I am going back an entire year now. January 21, 2020 (LAST YEAR) I had gone to see my local doctor cause I was very sick. Chills, fever, bad cough, headache, anevere body aches. I was so lightheaded I could barely stand up. I almost passed out in the examination room with my Doc. Thank God my hubby was there cause he caught me when I tettered over. Anyway, to make a long story short, my Doc checked me out, tested me for FLU, but the test came back NEGATIVE. He asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital, but I said, NO. I am very THICKHEADED. He put me on TAMAFLU and I basically slept for the next 2 weeks! Gradually, I got better, but I had NEVER felt like that in my entire life. As a breast cancer survivor, I had gone through Chemo & Radiation ... which is awful ... but this experience was actually worse. I remember while I was recuperating, I told my husband that the way I was feeling must be what it felt like for someone who had fallen down a flight of stairs! Side note ... I have NEVER fallen down a flight of stairs. I did get well ... and then COVID -19 became FRONT PAGE NEWS a short time after. I didn't see my Doctor again until a few months later for something else, and I asked him if I might have had COVID 19 when I last saw him? He said ... good chance I did! He gave me the ANTIBODIES test, but the results came back NEGATIVE for antibodies. Good chance the time between had been too long past to show positive ANTIBODIES results. All I can say is, whatever it was that had made me very sick, was very, very NASTY!
Staying on the Covid -19 topic, I have 2 sons and a daughter-in-law that all work in Healthcare (Medical assistant, Physical Therapy Assistant, and Robotics Equipment) and I worry about them each and every day. They are all temperature tested numerous times a day, take all the precautions that they must, but they are ALL working EXTRA LONG HOURS. Needless to say, I pray for them ... A LOT.
Well, this is a Gardening Site, so ... back to the GREEN STUFF! Nothing going on outdoors ... and indoors is a bit limited. My Thanksgiving Cactus bloomed beautifully. I have 3 Amaryllis potted up ... one making leaves ... the other 2 doing nothing. Side note ... I staggered the Amaryllis planting hoping for a long blooming period. I had planted these same bulbs last year and they all did ... NADA! No flowers ... just leaves. If they don't flower this year I am tossing them and buying budding plants for Christmas 2021.
I don't particularly like starting seeds indoors, but this Spring I will start Morning Glory and Black-eyed Susan Vine seeds inside. Last year, I started them outside and it was a bust. Morning Glory never bloomed, and the Black-eyed Susan flowered but a bit too late in the season. Some seeds I will sow directly outdoors since they do fairly well. Foxglove, Poppy, and Coneflower seeds like a bit of a chill.
Well, this is my news for the day. I posted a few pics for your viewing PLEASURE or DISPLEASURE.
Jane
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