My family has the plague and it is affecting our work

Friends, I just wanted to give you a head’s up of what has been going on for the past 3 weeks and what that has meant for Vinyl Collective and Suburban Home. 3 weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a Viral Respiratory Infection which had me sick and bed-ridden for 9 days. I got a little bit of work done during that time and our short-handed staff (minus brandon who was in europe and justin/andy who were on tour with Only Thunder) did a great job of holding the fort down. 2 weeks ago, my 1 1/2 year old niece was admitted into the hospital and had a battery of tests performed to try and figure out why she passed out. While she was in the hospital for half a week, we had to take care of my brother’s other daughter which added a lot to our plate. And this week, my wife, Stephanie has been sicker than a dog. I think she got what I had, but the doctor said she has a really bad case of bronchitis which has her bed-ridden with cold sweats, chills, a cough that won’t stop, and she has had a fever, too; pretty much all the symptoms I have had. Because of this, I have had to spend my days taking care of Logan while she recovers. And because of all of us being sick, there have been fewer posts and releases on VC and Suburban Home, Steph hasn’t been able to get the consignment statements and payments out, the sales which I had hoped to post every day are not being posted, amongts other things. We are just doing what we can to get though each day.

Understand that we should all be healthy soon (god forbid Logan get sick next), and when we are all healthy, we will do our best to get back to doing all the things we do. We have a lot of exciting things in the works and so many ideas brewing that we are excited to get things back to normal.

I hope everyone out there is healthier than my family.

Depending on how steph feels tonight and depending on if my brother can watch Logan, I hope to be at the Gaslight Anthem show tonight.