It was midweek the second week of December before I wasn't ending every workday feeling like death warmed over, and I still have a little bit of a residual itchy throat (they say that can linger for weeks) but other than that I'm feeling mostly back to normal.

I have to say, I'm in no hurry to get it again. I was actually scheduled for my bivalent booster two days after I tested positive (obviously I canceled THAT appointment!). So now I'll probably delay that until February (CDC says about three months after your positive test). So that should keep me covered well into spring. But I still plan on being careful. After all, breakthrough cases are happening every day (and who knows how sneaky all the new variants will end up being!).

Sure is a different world we live in now, isn't it?