{"id":175403,"date":"2022-08-04T19:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175403"},"modified":"2022-08-04T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:37:00","slug":"still-fighting-with-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/08\/04\/still-fighting-with-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Still fighting with Covid."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Wow, I am still not really well after 3 weeks. I am getting better but its 2 steps forward and one step back at present. I have&nbsp; been messaging&nbsp; people to explain that I will be out of commission for another week or so, with hopefully a gradual return to my normal activities&#8217;. Its hard going though. I guess I am feeling my age now. It&#8217;s hot again too. Too hot for me in recovery to be honest. I am quite fatigued and it is&nbsp; bit of a shock to be honest, my usual bounce back is not occuring in the same way.&nbsp; Age I suppose. it&#8217;s very frustrating.&nbsp; I feel much like I did during lock down again, but I still don&#8217;t feel well yet.&nbsp; The good news is that at the time of writing finally after 3 weeks I have just tested negative. I was beginning to get a bit worried that I might be starting a long covid infection. I am working on getting my strength back a bit too. I know if I miss one day I will be tempted to miss another. Some days I get up in pain but the exercises take it away. So like music and practice and composing it is my daily routine. I am lazy so I have an almost military discipline about it. I note how much exercise&nbsp; I do per day. That helps me keep motivation up. And pain killers are mostly useless for my pains so I have no choice. Each day I start with exercises and if I miss them I fit them In at a different time in the day pretty much. We are of a different character though. If i had a pottery kiln i would be a potter. I don&#8217;t really have any musical Instruments I dont play and so forth. The idea of buying&nbsp; a guitar and hanging it on the wall although it might be a beautiful thing is alien to me. In part perhaps because I never had money so anything I got was a titanic struggle to get so everything gets used.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gosh I am so tired&nbsp; though.<\/p>\n<p>Never surrender, never give up.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here&#8217;s a tune for you all<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1178366749&amp;color=%23d0346c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Yea Though I Walk\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/yea-though-i-walk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yea Though I Walk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I am still not really well after 3 weeks. I am getting better but its 2 steps forward and one step back at present. I have&nbsp; been messaging&nbsp; people to explain that I will be out of commission for another week or so, with hopefully a gradual return to my normal activities&#8217;. Its hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/08\/04\/still-fighting-with-covid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still fighting with Covid.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,10,33,9,60,4,3,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-disabilty-and-health-news","category-elephant-shelf","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-pictures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/laughing.jpg?fit=800%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JD5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179061,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/22\/still-too-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":175403,"position":0},"title":"Still too hot.","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's still to hot for me. Here's a short Piano mood piece. Just a modal minor tune.It might grow into something else as well though. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Afterthought For Piano I feel very worn again. I did a gig at a village fate at Knebworth which was rather\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":178306,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/27\/nothing-is-real-soggy-old-fields-forever\/","url_meta":{"origin":175403,"position":1},"title":"Nothing Is Real, Soggy Old Fields Forever","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Floods and things abounding at present. Its weird out there. I have recorded 8 songs and instrumental music this month. I do feel a bit over stimulated to be honest. Funny old day all round. I did another test run in my car for 25 minutes. 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