Glimmer #22 Better Living Through Belly Laughs

Me, during the hilarious winter of 2020

Happy week after Christmas, everyone! Our holiday was lovely, and I hope yours was as well.

The days after it? Not so much.

Here is the backstory, in its short form.

I’m one of those people who periodically experiences vertigo. You know, where rolling over in bed brings on dreams of giant rollercoasters running backward with you in the last seat. I am also recovering from a big old craniotomy and the removal of an acoustic neuroma. I have persistent “dysequilibrium”. That means I always feel like I am walking on a balance beam in heels. I fall over in the dark.

I’m completely deaf in one ear. And I have to sleep with a CPAP machine if I want to keep breathing.

Getting the image? I don’t need to go into the fact that I am chubby, gray-haired and I usually sleep in boxers and a t-shirt.

Sexy it ain’t, on its best nights.

Well, our family gathered at my sister’s house on Christmas Eve, as we often do. She was wearing a mask because she had a cold, but she had tested COVID negative in the morning. We all reassured her that it was perfectly fine and none of us was worried.

She tested positive the next morning. Oopsies.