![cabin fever meme cabin fever meme](https://www.memesmonkey.com/images/memesmonkey/1e/1eb80a7719b47f2bf0e9f298d649af9e.jpeg)
It has to stay uncontaminated in the other bathroom so that I can dispense the capsules into the dish and keep the bottle protected. “I didn’t want to wake you.” I forgot to put the Advil in the plastic dish in the bathroom that is now his. “I need some help,” he whispers hoarsely, shivering inside the wool undershirt and sweater he insists on wearing. It’s quite literally hard to sleep on the floor, but after trying the couch and then, on the floor, the couch mattress - a bit of fabric stretched over some coiled rings - the floor itself has been a relief. “How are you doing, love?” I call to my husband from the living-room floor, where I now sleep each night on a roll-up foam sleeping pad that my daughter has used on camping trips, topped with a couple of thin blankets. It’s called “What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick with Coronavirus.” julia whelan So here’s Jessica’s story read by Julia Whelan. And so I think Jessica realized that she was experiencing something that had clarified for her certain realities about Covid-19 and about what this outbreak is going to be like for many, many, many people that hadn’t yet reached the rest of us. And to me what’s so unusual or complicated about this situation that we find ourselves in is that, because we’re all isolated from each other, we often don’t really know how this thing looks when you get it. I feel like I have something that I need to tell people. And she said to me, I just feel like it’s in me. Of course, when she said, I want to write something about this, I said, are you sure? It just seems like a lot. One of the things that Jessica started to say to us after about a week of living with this experience was that she felt she needed to write about it. So around about the same time that we left the office and started working remotely, one of the two deputy editors of the magazine is Jessica Lustig, and Jessica’s husband began having flu-like symptoms around that time, and they quickly got worse to the point that he was tested for Covid-19 and tested positive. And we’re developing relationships with kids and spouses and stuff like that. Some people’s kids pop in for technical support on some of the video calls now and again.
![cabin fever meme cabin fever meme](https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/17/66/1510137101-59b47b31d431a068e60c4018fc34df1c.jpg)
We’re starting to get used to certain people popping in. We sort of see them happening in the background of our video calls when we’re having meetings. We’re figuring out a way through it, and part of what I think we’re all learning is necessary as an office, as a group of colleagues, is that we’re just much more involved in the realities of each other’s domestic lives than we ever were before.
![cabin fever meme cabin fever meme](https://img.izismile.com/img/img13/20200429/640/cabin_fever_always_comes_with_the_memes_640_01.jpg)
I’m the editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, and for a couple weeks now, we’ve been producing the magazine fully remotely. Editor in chief Jake Silverstein introduces her story, recorded by Audm. Transcript Listen to This Article Produced by Julia Longoria edited by Mike Benoist written by Jessica Lustig narrated by Julia Whelan On an episode of “The Daily,” Jessica Lustig, a deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine, shares an intimate essay about her family’s fight against Covid-19.