Anxiety

[glatt]

Last week was pretty stressful for me too, and manifest itself with a fairly big cold sore outbreak. The virus just hangs out waiting for some body stress and then erupts to the surface. I felt constant tingling in my chin as the virus was moving around along my nerves. I don't normally feel that.

Why stressed?

My wife got a skin cancer diagnosis last week. The best kind of cancer to have. Something like a 99% recovery rate after one somewhat minor surgery. But I've got this very high deductible HSA health insurance plan because I was trying to save some cash on premiums, and this will sting us financially. There were concerns about the surgeon not appearing in the network, and lots of calls to the various doctors, and the insurance co., and meetings with my employer's benefits coordinator.

And I've got this elderly cousin I'm now responsible for, and I've been trying to get services in place for him, and it's excruciatingly slow. Calls with in-home service provider, social worker, county nurse, deep cleaning company, and lawyer. And he calls every day complaining about some problem I need to resolve for him. It was his razor that put me over the top, I think. I bought him a new one on Amazon and 2-day shipped it to him for Friday delivery. He's going to be a significant chore in my life for the next 5-10 years.

And work was unusually busy last week leading up to the holiday weekend. Everybody trying to shoehorn everything in before going away.

But I had a nice relaxing weekend (other than all the driving) with my family at the lake. It was good, and I'm good now. Except for this lingering cold sore that will stick around for a week. I hate having a cold sore at work. I feel like everyone is looking at it. And they are. Oh well.