Brief Blog Break

Greta Christina

Hi, all. Greta here. I wanted to let you all know: I went into Kaiser today about the bad cold/ asthma attack I got this weekend, and it turns out to be pneumonia. Not to worry or freak out — it’s not a terribly bad case, and with antibiotics and other nice modern medicines I should be okay in a week or two. But I’m going to be home and out of it for several days, sucking down cough syrup with codeine and breathing steam nonstop. So the blogging will probably be minimal to none for the next few days. (Also, while the Best Sex Writing event at the Center for Sex and Culture on Thursday is still happening, it’s extremely unlikely that I’ll be there.)

And yes, the timing on this is so spectacularly bad as to be comical. This is definitely going to go down as one of the five worst months of my entire life. Hopefully I’ll be able to look back on it someday and laugh grimly. Anyway, just wanted to let you all know. Take care, and I’ll talk to you soon.

Love,
Greta

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Brief Blog Break

About the author

Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, of Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, of Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, of Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and of Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She has been a public speaker for many years, and many of her talks can be seen on YouTube. Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of Best American Erotica. (Any views she expresses in this blog are solely hers, and do not necessarily represent this organizations.) She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at gretachristina (at) gmail (dot) com, or follow her on Facebook.
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17 thoughts on “Brief Blog Break”

  1. Vanessa
    1

    WTF is it with pneumonia these days? You’re the third person in my (extended) social circle who’s been stricken with it recently. Good luck and heal up soon!

  3. David D.G.
    3

    Good grief, first Orac succumbs to “death flu” and now you’ve got pneumonia?!? Is there a computer virus going around the blogosphere or something?
    Take care, Greta, and get well soon.
    ~David D.G.

  14. J. J. Ramsey
    14

    David D.G.: “Good grief, first Orac succumbs to ‘death flu’ and now you’ve got pneumonia?!?”
    You took the words right out of my mouth. It had to happen to a couple of the, IMHO, sanest bloggers out there, didn’t it? 🙁
    Normally I don’t like doing “me, too” posts, too, but I think “Get Well Soon” posts ought to be an exception. So then …
    Get well soon!

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