PhD Journey: Week 15

Dealing with not being well

Back to the grindstone, and the excitement of January has been completely wiped out by a pretty gruesome cold. I initially thought I had tonsillitis, but then got a whole load of other symptoms and had to go to bed. No idea if it was covid or something else, but it was a massive struggle to do more than four or five hours a day at work, just to make pre-arranged calls and keep things ticking over. The long-term deadlines of a PhD mean that being ill and not doing much work on it for a week doesn’t seem too big a deal, but it’s annoying because I needed to make some progress on a paper and the deadline for that is much more pressing.

Anyway, week written off, back to it next week.