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    </div><p id="13c2"><a href="undefined">The Sturg</a></p><div id="5ed7" class="link-block">
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            <h2>The Sickest That I’ve Been Physically in Many Ways Has Been My Third and Current Stint with COVID</h2>
            <div><h3>The problem is that I feel better then worse again at the turn of a switch and my chronic pain adds to the pain</h3></div>
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    </div><p id="7a51"><a href="undefined">Brett Jenae Tomlin</a></p><div id="28f9" class="link-block">
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            <h2>That Bitch was Sick</h2>
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    </div><p id="4d97"><a href="undefined">NancyO</a></p><div id="bdf6" class="link-block">
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            <h2>The Sickest I’ve Ever Been</h2>
            <div><h3>Smallpox? Typhoid? The common cold?</h3></div>
            <div><p>nancyoglesbywellness.medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="3578"><a href="undefined">Karen Schwartz</a></p><div id="2d88" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Day Five: The sickest you’ve ever been — mentally or physically</h2>
            <div><h3>This one was highly emotional because I’ve only recently healed.</h3></div>
            <div><p>karenschwartz22.medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="f561"><a href="undefined">Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles</a></p><div id="0119" class="link-block">
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            <h2>Knock Knock Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door</h2>
            <div><h3>I can dream, can’t I? The sickest I’ve ever been</h3></div>
            <div><p>vidyasury.medium.com</p></div>
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    </div><p id="a97d"><a href="undefined">redkitewrites</a></p><div id="45e1" class="link-block">
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Have Ever Been</h2> <div><h3>Today’s prompt in case you haven’t guessed already is “The Sickest I Have Ever Been”</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="4ec9"><a href="undefined">Autistic Widower ("AJ")</a></p><div id="a8b3" class="link-block"> <a href="https://autisticwidower.medium.com/getting-worse-every-week-the-sickest-i-have-ever-been-3e0e9f20da5c"> <div> <div> <h2>Getting Worse Every Week: The Sickest I Have Ever Been</h2> <div><h3>2012 was a low point for my physical health, but 2013 was worse mentally</h3></div> <div><p>autisticwidower.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Pcn8n0A_2KggwjrE9hTBqw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="c44c"><a href="undefined">Robert G. Longpré - [he/him] - Canadian métis</a></p><div id="7742" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/challenge-i-had-to-resign-228a281c73dc"> <div> <div> <h2>Challenge — I Had to Resign</h2> <div><h3>Day 5</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*wP4veb8sf1T8Jdhn)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="fb0b"><a href="">Richard Bailey</a></p><div id="37f5" class="link-block"> <a href="https://empowerwrite.medium.com/writing-challenge-the-sickest-ive-ever-been-24dd6243c334"> <div> <div> <h2>Writing Challenge: The Sickest I’ve Ever Been</h2> <div><h3>This writing challenge/prompt is inspired by Keeley Schroder’s list of writing topics for the month of January. You can read this list…</h3></div> <div><p>empowerwrite.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Y7PVJlMb8DB4UByjNP02TQ.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="0f57"><a href="undefined">Michelle Jimerson Morris</a></p><div id="519c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-reality-of-living-with-chronic-diseases-f46d4885e500"> <div> <div> <h2>The Reality of Living with Chronic Diseases</h2> <div><h3>The Effects on your Physical and Mental Health</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*UBg9frLQE1eRAxOW8EPDNw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="a55a"><b>In case you’ve been living under a rock, here’s the prompts to my January challenge:</b></p><div id="a1e0" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/challenge-yourself-is-one-of-your-resolutions-to-write-more-in-2023-c3abf09b9520"> <div> <div> <h2>Challenge Yourself: Is One of Your Resolutions to Write More In 2023?</h2> <div><h3>Join my January writing challenge</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*jCUNW74vhU67ZkWI)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Day 6: The First Memory I Have From My Childhood

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I don’t know what I was thinking when I came up with this prompt. I basically have no memories from my early childhood. I can look through photos, and I can feel a vague sense of familiarity… but I don’t remember much at all.

The earliest memory I think I have can’t be fact-checked and I’ve run it by Mum and she can’t remember it. I was around five — I know that’s a late age for a first memory and even then, it’s sketchy — and in my brother’s bedroom. I opened his cupboard to get out a toy and as I opened the door a giant red fire truck fell out from the top shelf and hit me in the head.

I remember Mum wrapping a big white bandage around my head, looking in the mirror and seeing the blood peek through on my forehead. It seems such a random memory and I don’t even know if it really happened. Maybe it did, maybe the reason why my memory is so shit is that I received a concussion from the big red fire-truck.

Doesn’t it seem oddly specific for it to not have happened? A red fire truck.

It’s too random and Mum can’t verify it ever happened so who knows?

Perhaps my earliest memory would be from pre-school. I started school late so I would have been six. I had a sticker book and I brought it in for show and tell. My favourite ones were these super shiny dinosaur stickers, and I remember having a giant sparkly stegosaurus.

A redheaded devil boy in my class stole my shiny stegosaurus sticker. His name was Robert Payne and much to my dislike, he remained in my class every year up until around grade seven.

I hated him, he was a big bully. Remember the movie Billy Madison?

Robert Payne was exactly like The O’Doyles. If only his family drove over a banana peel and lost control of their car off a cliff.

He was the first bully I remember and I still miss my shiny stegosaurus sticker.

Neither memories are ground-breakingly fascinating, in fact, they’re both pretty mundane and questionable. Here’s hoping you guys have better, ymore interesting memories than I have. Cause mine were pretty shitty.

I loved reading your own personal takes on the sickest you’ve ever been. And I apologise for forcing your hand. Check out others’ responses:

Adrienne Beaumont

Katie Michaelson

The Sturg

Brett Jenae Tomlin

NancyO

Karen Schwartz

Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles

redkitewrites

Autistic Widower ("AJ")

Robert G. Longpré - [he/him] - Canadian métis

Richard Bailey

Michelle Jimerson Morris

In case you’ve been living under a rock, here’s the prompts to my January challenge:

Writing Challenge
Medium Writers
This Happened To Me
Challenge
2023
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