Welcome to the conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. You can probably hear it in my voice as I'm recording this that I'm probably not sounding quite 100% and that's probably because I suspect I have COVID.

And I can see God's grace in the timing of this because I just did I think I spoke like nine times

something like that to one one was a podcast one was a radio show but then there was

seven times I just spoke in

person or did a session of some kind all the way from from Kentucky to

Tennessee and and so it was pretty jam-packed. I really put myself speaking every day somewhere, sometimes

multiple times a day.

And I started to feel bad.

The night I went to bed in Nashville, just a little off,

I wasn't quite sure what it was was and I woke up the next morning and

getting out of bed was just I had to really convince myself to do it I did not

want to get out of bed and the headache started and I was driving to the airport and I could just barely open my eyes and look at the light.

Even now I'm pretty sensitive to the light.

So I think right now I'm probably at the high point of the day. I've spent the entire morning pretty much

just in bed with a pillow over my eyes and with a high fever and the fever kind of broke.

It's early afternoon now, which usually in the afternoon is when the fever is worse,

so I'm kind of surprised that I'm doing better.

But my processing speed, everything is just subpar right now.

And you can probably hear it in my voice.

I'm starting to get the classic sore throat and gunk kind of me all of that coughing and dizziness and so I'm just okay enough I think to record this but I can't even probably quite do that for long but God's hand is in it in the fact that I was able to

meet all the speaking engagements that I had scheduled and it wasn't until when I was

leaving that I actually got sick and I think I'm probably on the mend now.

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