Ever since
my back and hip injury, I’ve been trying to take better care of myself. More
exercise and eating better (not enough of either yet, but I’m working on it).
But disease still finds its way to me as I teach. It’s the cost of doing
business for a teacher. The best I can do is minimize the time I’m sick, but
illness has this great way of wiping out a writer’s ability to concentrate like
nothing else. Getting any significant writing or editing done while sick is next
to impossible.
On the
other hand, lurid fever dreams can make for great story fodder later.