Making a Come-back: April 5 2025

So, March was completely out for walking, posting, etc. I came down with something awful on March 3rd that resulted in a hospital stay from March 12-19 (coincidentally the exact dates I was actually supposed to be on a fun tropical vacation), and then I spent the rest of the month recovering.

It turned out that I had Legionnaires disease, which is a rather rare bacterial infection that leads to life threatening pneumonia. So, yeah, I ended up requiring oxygen and spent part of that hospital week in the intensive care unit.

Here it is the 5th of April, and I am finally feeling like myself again!

For weeks I was not strong enough to walk, except around the house. Then I worked up to 1/3 of a mile, then a full mile. And now I can actually take my dog to our favorite park and do our usual extensive hike!

It has been a wild ride. And now it’s good to be back!

As you can see, it is still winter brown here. We will start to see some new green growth emerging in the coming weeks.

Thanks for reading.

Photo credits: All of the photos in this post were taken by me and belong to me, unless otherwise noted.

My bio: I am a fiction writer and photographer based in Minnesota. I have had a lifelong love of fiction writing. I am earned my MFA in writing from the University of New Hampshire. My short stories go de have appeared in a range of literary journals and anthologies, and my first short story collection, Somewhere in Minnesota is available on Amazon US as well as international Amazon sites., Barnes & Noble or from the publisher.

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