I am just getting somewhat healthy again after a bout of – believe it or no – mononucleosis. Yeah, that’s supposed to be something you get in high school or college. Once you get it, you develop enough antibodies that you don’t typically come down with the symptoms of the disease again. At least, not “typically.”
For whatever reason, my body decided to go for it, right at age 52. Don’t ask me, I don’t know.
It started with a strep throat infection (something else I hadn’t had in a long time). That apparently provided the opportunity for the Epstein-Barr Virus (which causes “mono”) to do it’s thing, perhaps because the immune system was down from the strep.
I am fortunate in that I have a young woman doctor who is very sharp. She put two and two together, had me take a blood test and bingo, it came up positive for “mono.”
I spent about three weeks sleeping about 16 hours a day. Even still, four weeks after I came down with the symptoms, I get weary very easily. It hasn’t been fun.
I’ve been very much “out of it” as a result, not speaking to anyone or going anywhere. I feel like I’m in sort of limbo with my life. I’m getting better, but still, things are not right.
However, during that time I have managed somehow to keep a couple of potential employers on the line. I went yesterday to Baton Rouge, LA, to have an interview with one of the management team for one of the jobs (it’s here in Houston, though).
No one has been in a particular hurry to hire. It looks like it MIGHT be getting a little better, but it’s hard to tell. the government – esp. the Obama administration – has screwed up the economy so badly with their attempts to “manage” everything, that no one wants to make any rash moves, including hiring any fat salaries, for fear the government will throw them some kind of curve ball. They’ve sucked up so much of the private-sector capital, all in the name of their socialist schemes. It has never been this bad in the history of the U.S. – even during the “New Deal.”
I really hope something comes down the chute within the next week. Hoping and praying, actually.
