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What I Learned From My Battle With COVID: Saturday's GNR [1]
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Date: 2022-09-17
A week ago today, after an awful night fighting an 103 degree temperature, I tested positive for COVID.
Thankfully, I am feeling much better a week late. Not 100% better — I still have a head cold and all that comes with that for me — but much better.
In reflecting on the past week I learned a few lessons that seem like they also apply to our current political situation:
1. Don’t get cocky I’d made it almost 2 years and through my kids having COVID and countless close calls, so I got cocky and, honestly, a little less careful. I still wore my mask most of the time in public but there were a few times I didn’t. Whoops. It is a good reminder that we need to stay vigilant. A lead in the polls is not an election.
2. Bad times end I felt awful for those first 24 hours but they passed. The Trump years passed. The only way out is through.
3. Panic doesn’t help My mind went nuts in the first day thinking about long covid and people who end up in the hospital. But I did well to remind myself that I can only control what I can control and that I can face anything that I need to face. That is true for all of us as well
4. Do the work now I took it easy AF those first few days. Maybe that doesn’t sound like work, but it is when you have a million things to do and you need to force yourself to stop to sleep multiple times a day. But it paid off. Each day of rest got me so much closer to healthy. Sometimes you have to work had to get to where you want to be.
5. We are not alone Thanks so much for all the kind words in the comments last week. Knowing that I was not alone and that we are all here supporting one another makes such a big difference.
As you can see, I can’t even have COVID without relating it to the midterms 😂😂
I am a little obsessed.
A few months ago, I set up a fund for 38 seats that could decide this election. Because you all are so amazing, we raised over $2000 for EACH of those seats. We raised over $80,000 for 38 tight House races.
Since we started that effort, with numbers shifting left (and more primaries happening) we have 22 more candidates for Congress who could keep the House blue! Let's support those new 22!
This batch includes Katie Porter’s seat! We need way more Porters and way fewer Boeberts. This fund will get us there.
I’d love nothing more than for us to also raise $2000 for each of these candidates. We are almost at the half way mark!! Can we pass it today?
Can you donate?
C’mon, it’ll make you feel good. You can donate here:
Now onto the good news!
With Hard Work, We Can Win in November
Democrats Buoyed by Abortion and Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds
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