{"id":2767,"date":"2017-02-27T10:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T14:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2017-02-27T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T21:50:22","slug":"far-from-my-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"Far From My Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span><\/span>ebruary was lost to the flu for me. I flirted with getting a flu shot all through January \u00a0but never found the time to get one. Whether the flu-shot would have saved me, we’ll never know. But I got hit with the flu and spent a week in bed, and the following week feeling horrible.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is amazing\u00a0 how illness affects the mind. In a swoon, I would wake up \u00a0from some weird anxiety dream involving bass guitars.\u00a0I’d roll over and\u00a0go back to sleep and have the same restless dream. To pass time as I slept in fits and starts around the clock I read a Simmeon novel, <\/span>Maigret Bides His Time<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0The novel was one of the best <\/span>Maigret’s<\/span><\/em> I’ve read and I kept thinking how I wanted to recommend it to friends.\u00a0 Then I started having anxiety dreams about the book and how somehow the plot was foolish because of a rain coat. I’d wake from this dream, toss and turn, fall asleep again\u00a0and go back to it. The rain coat! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But a sure sign I was ill was that I didn’t drink coffee for the whole period. It must be a biological thing: obviously my body wanted to rest not stay awake. It takes a lot to keep me away from my coffee. I start each day with a strong black cup, then have another before I leave the house. But no coffee at all when I was sick.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhere in my feverish existence , the flu had me far from my coffee.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright 2017 Christopher Donahue<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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