Norovirus Blues

Last Friday evening I came home after some pre-Memorial Day home project shopping in the early evening.  I felt nauseous and decided to lie down before dinner, which I never do.  In a few minutes my stomach growled, my gut twisted and I was running to the bathroom to bury my head in the toilet and vomit up what I thought was my entire food consumption for the day.  That was only the beginning.  For the next five hours I was wrenched with both vomiting and diarrhea, I was exhausted.

The second day I had only clear liquids, a few wakeful hours but mostly sleep.  By day three I was too tired to much more than read, but I had a special reading project for a friend to complete.  My friend and mentor Marshall Cook recently completed his latest novel manuscript – EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.  It’s a completely developed long story coming in at 400,000 words.  The story is well paced, draws you in without noticing and left me eager to reach the final chapter.  He’s trying to interest an agent or publisher in the manuscript now and I wish him success, this is a story the world needs to have.  If the traditional publishing world turns its shoulder I hope he takes the time to independently publish.

So, my convalescence had a silver lining, I read a great novel.