Pneumonia

I am into day 16 of having pneumonia. It is not fun. I am still coughing, and getting the goobies up. I don't have a fever anymore, but I am feeling weak and tired, and don't have the fitness I had two weeks ago. It was a viral one, caught out of the blue, probably from some obscure door handle, or at the swimming pool where I was doing water aerobics. I feel like doing some things again, and I have read two books, but I want my old self back. At one time, 5 days into the illness, I was in my chair with a blanky and not feeling like doing anything, and I looked outside, up at the rafters in the overhang on the porch, and I thought it would be so easy to just let go. Being a pretty positive person, and loving humor and laughing, this was not me thinking. But I am aged now, and aging, and thoughts like that come to you. Who are those tough ones that seem to be able to get through huge physical things, illnesses, really bad stuff like cancer and soldier on into old age, like their 90's, and then they are there and life quality is not all that great, but they seem to be happy and enduring. I don't know if I will be like them, but I do know I like being able to race down the ski slope, ride my road bike and feel the accomplishment of it all at my age, and even feel a little smug about it all! So here is to getting over this damn virus and out on the slopes before the season is over. I need to get day 70!