[#note Stitch Club August] I'm giving up the title of 'Bottom-of-the-Barrel Queen' this month...

The cross-stitch I posted last month as just 'bones',

is finished this month! ✨

Normally, I would aim to post at 11:59 PM to compete with Hisui-san for the title of 'Bottom-of-the-Barrel Queen', but I actually found out this morning that I have COVID. There is a reason why this report sounds so carefree. On Wednesday, I had a lot of phlegm and thought maybe my aging was accelerating, but on Thursday morning, I suddenly developed a fever of 38 degrees Celsius. Since my normal temperature is around 34.8 to 35.2, I was surprised, but since I only had a cough and phlegm and no severe headache, and the clinic was closed, I stayed quiet and by the afternoon, my fever had dropped to the high 35-degree range.

I intended to go to the hospital if I had a fever on Friday, but on Friday, my temperature was in the mid-36-degree range, and although it was higher than my normal temperature, I felt fine. If I had to say, I just had enough fatigue that I would fall asleep while reading notes, so I stayed home to rest, thinking that forcing myself to go to the hospital in bad weather would only make things worse. By night, it had dropped to 35.8 degrees.

Then this morning, I woke up with a sharp pain in my throat. When I took my temperature, it was 37.6 degrees. I got worried about whether a normal cold could cause such fluctuations in temperature, so I decided to go to the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital and took my temperature, it was 36.8 degrees and already starting to go down. I felt light, so I thought I would just end up going home after causing a fuss, but...

'Let's run a test.'

I was told, and it came back positive. 😢

I was anxious, so I took my family members who didn't have a fever with me, and they were positive too. We have COVID together as a family. None of us had any issues with taste or smell, and we were all mild cases. By the afternoon, my temperature was 35.8 degrees, so I finished the 'Bone-Skin-Muscle-Emon' cross-stitch.

I think I was just lucky that my case was mild this time. Since you never know when COVID might take a turn for the worse, I'll go to bed early today and focus on recovering my healthy body without wasting this stroke of luck.

So, although it's frustrating, this month's 'Bottom-of-the-Barrel Queen' is...

Hisui-san! It's yours!

I'm stitching letters like this onto some cross-stitch fabric I bought at a 100-yen shop.
I'm stitching away.

The area around it looks a bit lonely, so maybe I should embroider something and put it in a frame to display?

My family doesn't know about my activities on note, so they find these letters creepy. 😂 Today, they asked me, 'Are you okay in the head?' I'm embarrassed, so I'll try to make sure they never find out for the rest of my life.