short update

 Finally Gail and I were able to get together for coffee today.  Over the past couple of weeks she has been participating in craft show after craft show.  But this is her livelihood, so this is the time of year for her to make money.  It will be this way until Christmas, now.  But today she remarked about how good it was to be able to sit and relax over a cup of coffee.  We were talking about what we had both been doing over the past week or so.  I had told her how both of us were experiencing a crippling fatigue towards the end of the week.  But today I feel full of energy and ready to party, after more of less sleeping over the past  couple of days.  She related it to a reaction to the flu vaccine, and when I thought about it, many people are  having a fairly severe reaction, and the timing was certainly right.  So it was very, very reassuring to actually have an explanation for physical issues that were frightening to me.