Hello, dear listeners, this is V from snoozecast.

Just letting you know that I am recovering and feeling a lot better after a bad case of the flu and pneumonia, which I'd never had before and is really fun.

Thank you so much to everyone that's written in with well wishes for me.

I really appreciate it.

While I was feeling really sick,

I also was feeling really down and sad thinking about how fragile our health is and how precious our lives are.

Even if our lives are hard, it's really hard. Sometimes the things that I was really missing while I was so sick was spending time with my family and thinking about how precious that was to me.

The reason I'm telling you this is not to be a bummer, but a good thing

that's come from being so sick is it made me really reevaluate what I do to take care of myself.

When I saw the doctor today, he reassured me that this has been a particularly virulent year for the flu,

and that there is lots of, you know, otherwise healthy adults, not only getting really severe cases of the flu, but also pneumonia,

more than you would normally see, and just more cases of pneumonia in general.

So it's not like there's something terribly wrong with me that this also happened.

But with that being said, when I was being really

honest with myself and evaluating the way I was living and feeling before I got sick,

even before I caught this, I wasn't feeling good.

Even though I was technically okay, I wasn't feeling good for a long time.

Just feeling run down, always run down, exhausted, always pushing myself to the limit for the sake of productivity.

And that's what's going to change.

It's not going to change anything related to snoozecast. I'm just sharing with you a little bit that I'm excited.

One of the little changes is that being so sick this last week,

I haven't had any caffeine this whole time, and it's been really kind of nice, actually.

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