I Had Two Surgeries and Covid and I'm Lonely

(My luck hasn’t been great lately)

Do you believe in luck?

I am superstitious. Enormously so. I “bite my tongue” if I say things I don’t want to come true while also knocking on wood (any object nearby) and also wanting to throw salt expressively over my shoulder. I also hate illeism… but isn’t that all we are here, in this roundabout cul-de-sac of self indulgent say-everythings?

But here’s the thing: My luck hasn’t been great lately.

A few days ago, I had surgery on my stomach to replace the battery in my gastric pacemaker (a good thing), but just a week before that, I was grappling with a sinus infection-like exacerbation that