Okay… so sometime early 2021 I promised myself I will continue writing about my Iceland trip back in 2016. Well, its February 2023 and I am just about to continue where I left off back then!
What happened in the meantime..
- Corona craze
We kind of survived that mostly fine. I remember the second year the doc said there was some blood in my urine, so I went to the urologist. That happened to be a (fairly attractive) woman. As I complained about a my corona blues, she paused, looked at me and said “Its kind of common now” and dismissed me straight away. I asked for a testosterone test, though, which was according to her then just fine.
We didn’t vaccinate and endured some minor social pressure. The older ladies at the swimming pool reception looked at me and sighed very disapprovingly as I showed them test results and not the (socially approved) vaccination passport. And obviously I still cannot enter US for that very reason. But well.. Writing from early 2023, all that vaccination efforts seem to be.. superfluous? Everyone I know, whether vaccinated or not, got corona and it was more or less pretty similar to what I’ve got as an non-vaccinated.
Because about Christmas 2021 a friend come from US though and stayed with us for a few days. He brought a lot of good presents with him, but more importantly for todays blog post also the latest Corona strain. So due to that the New Year Eve 2022 and most of January were pretty bad. All four of us were positive and paid a visit to our doc the moment they opened. With a weird buzzing in my head, lack of energy and a peculiar feeling of emptiness I felt pretty shitty most of the month.
2 weeks in quarantine closed up with my boys – was kind of tough. We tried to do something useful – ramped up English lessons, Paul started to play piano, our neighbors brought groceries so all in all it was manageable.
Neither of us got the long covid. But drive for sport I regained – partly – only a good part of the year later. - War in Ukraine (on-going)
I remembered complaining to the pretty urologist back then about the alleged impact of Corona on my delicate psyche – and on my testosterone; well, had I just known … - We are moving to the mountains and lakes (yay!)
No point to wait if the world is rolling to its end, I thought some day. - …And WordPress updated to some really counter-intuitive thing
wtf they did that