Sick on my birthday.
Took one of the kids to urgent care to get a sore throat checked out last week and I managed to catch everything that was in the waiting room. Doing better today but still coughing up stuff.
Since we couldn't go anywhere I just played Skyrim and did one of my Thieves Guild Dropout runs. This works in the regular game I'm not sure if this works in the anniversary/special edition. But, during the thieves guild quest line you eventually have to meet one of the leaders at a dungeon entrance where he temporarily becomes part of your party. And as you can guess, that's the trick. He is set to follow you around the dungeon and attack anything that targets you. He also will not leave the party until the dungeon is completed.
So what you do is start the event, causing him to join your party, then leave the dungeon and go about the rest of the game as usual but now you have a very strong fighter helping you out. Couple that with Lydia or whoever you have following you normally and you now have a 3 man team for the rest of the game. He will not abandon you for anything and acts just like any other follower you have. Not once does he complain that you haven't gone back to the dungeon or that you need to finish the quest. His joining the party is a temporary bit that most people would finish in order to complete the thieves guild quest line.
Fatal hilarity.