I’m Sick

I have a regular winter cold, also known as a common as dirt cold. As a result, I conjugated a verb incorrectly in class for the first time in my life.

“Shouldn’t this be an “e”?” a student asked.

Of course, at that precise moment, my voice decided to abandon me. So all I could do was nod and rock my body repeatedly like an old Jew sitting over his Torah.

I have to say, though, after PUPPPS, gestational diabetes, gestational periodontitis, and gestational everything else, it’s kind of nice to have a familiar sickness that I recognize and that doesn’t feel extraneous or intrusive.