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Health Update

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A little over a month ago, I got a cold. It was a bummer because my symptoms were at their worst on the very day that we had planned on having all the women in our apartment building over for dinner. Everyone had already confirmed and it was all set. And I got a cold. Living the sniffly cold life in a cold Brazilian winter Some of you may remember that last October I got a cold and ended up spending two and a half weeks in the hospital. This time I got over it all on my own (huge yay) and haven’t had any problems since. I wasn’t able to properly celebrate this victory online because I haven’t posted anything about my health on social media before. So I wanted to share a catch up/update. We were eventually able to invite our neighbors over for São Paulo style hot dogs (yes, those are mashed potatoes) Catch up: Last year I experienced very elevated levels of anxiety and grief, which I’ll explain in a bit, but my physical symptoms started in May of 2021. At first it was fevers, then fever