I feel it would be better not to risk spreading COVID because of my walks through all the halls.

Now that full masking outside my apartment and the contagiousness of Omicron, I don’t feel comfortable doing that anymore.

That is an adequate substitute for my exercise. When I walk all four floors of the independent living wings here, it adds up to about 1.25 miles. Now that I am living in a community with about 400 other senior citizens, and COVID-19, I have added dimensions to the concept of cabin fever. Whenever the outside temperature drops below freezing, I can no longer take my 2 miles of outside walks around my community each day. In my prime, I was about 5′ 10″, now due to the above and general aging I am 4″ shorter. I have landed in the hospital on numerous occasions with rib fractures and vertebrae compression fractures because of falling on ice. Because of my type of deafness, snow and ice are my enemy. Since winter is my most devastating season, cabin fever has been very common to me over the years.

Cabin fever vacations oh my cabin