What did you do this week (and weekend)?

My entire immediate family finally got COVID. So for the last 5 days all of us have basically been doing nothing but sleeping for 12+ hours a day, in between coughing fits, in between bouts of fever, chills, vomiting, and diarrhea. This is easily the sickest I have been in a very very long time, and also the sorest my throat has been since I got Strep as a teen. Every time I cough it feels like there are shards of glass rattling around in my throat. It's also the first time I've shat myself in a very long time too... and not just once, but multiple times over the last few days. And apparently I am not alone in having that happen either. So yeah, fun times all around for me and my family! :(

And we are all vaxxed and triple boosted, so I can't even imagine how bad it would have been had we not been.

Toured Lisbon! Ate my own weight in baked goods.

Any Euro folk here should get it on their travel list. Full of history and some extremely wonderful views, Museums and cultural stuff.

There's also Sintra, which has insanely beautiful areas. Avoid Pena Palace, it's crap for the price and go look at some of the others, or climb the Moorish Castle ruins for a view that just cannot be beaten.

The people are lovely, if fundamentally incapable of queueing like reasonable humans on the regular. I felt my British soul crying out for some conquest when a line got pushed into.

That being said? 9/10 would visit again.

Flew home from a trip visiting Maine and collapsed with fatigue. Now trying to catch up on work.

Maine was beautiful and fun and visiting people was rewarding.

Booth Bay harbor has a great botanical garden complete with hand carved wooden trolls that are quite large and interesting.

Waves restaurant is a place I want to return for breakfast.

My complex long-term relationship with my ex partner came to a close: im not sure if it was the right thing to do, but getting back together was also potentially not the right thing to do.
Does anyone have any tips for dealing with death grief and end of relationship grief? I'm dealing with both right now and am struggling to stay afloat.

For context:

• I ended the ~5 relationship with my partner in May.
• the reason for the end of the relationship was that I was struggling to process the grief of looking after my cancer ridden maternal grandad (he needed assistance going to the bathroom and collapsed whilst in my care, cutting open his back and scaring him from moving from his bed for his remaining days), the death of my maternal grandmother in February (also cancer, but less involved with her care), the death of my aunt in October 2020 (also cancer) and the death of my paternal grandmother in March 2019 (again, cancer). Following all this, I started to become upset with things in the relationship that didn't previously upset me, and I saw this and thought it unfair so asked to end things on a romantic level with her.
• I am in therapy and have been making progress, but put the relationship on hold to fully allow me to work unhindered.
• My ex-partner was autistic and had been abused, so there were complexities related to that. That made the lows very difficult in the relationship. Conversely, this also made the highs incredibly worthwhile.
• I asked my ex-partner for space and she understood, but difficulties arose when I realised I have little to no friend network for support, at which point I'd asked to be friends yet we spoke every day like in our relationship. Can't lean on parents because they're also struggling with the deaths.
• from yesterday, she's asked for no contact to put her mental health first for the first time in the last six months. I totally appreciate this given I did that in the first place.

I haven't been doing much this week the first day with actual activity was Wednesday, when I had my eyes checked to see if I'm blind enough that the state will pay for corrective surgery. I am, but there were other complications that mean I can't get the surgery just yet and will have to come back for another check-up in a couple of months. Also on Wednesday, I went to my weekly singing lessons and sang a Chris Stapleton song(Hard Livin') almost without hurting myself. Friday I got a flu shot as well as a corona shot, so hopefully I can go through winter without being bedridden too often.