I Wrote This At 4am Sick With Covid

Aim for about 3 liters (roughly 13 cups) of fluid daily.

Instead, your mind latches onto the big things.

After five nights of this rodeo, I have curated a survival list. If you are reading this at 4 AM, go get these things. Now. i wrote this at 4am sick with covid

: Many writers describe a literal "breathlessness" in their verse that mirrors the physical symptoms of the virus.

So drink your Gatorade. Change your sweat-soaked shirt. Take your next dose of meds. Put on the most boring documentary you can find (I recommend one about paint drying—seriously, it helps you sleep). And know that somewhere out there, a 4 AM comrade is coughing, typing, and surviving right alongside you. Aim for about 3 liters (roughly 13 cups) of fluid daily

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If you are reading this in real-time, at the witching hour, with a box of tissues on one side and a cold cup of tea on the other: take one more sip of water. Reset your timer for your next dose of medicine. And know that somewhere out there, across the strange, silent network of the sick and sleepless, someone just hit “publish” on a rambling article for you. If you are reading this at 4 AM, go get these things

If you'd like, paste what you wrote — I can help shape it into a post without losing the 4am spirit.