At the very end of June I came down with a huge allergy attack. I get them every once in a while but decreasingly over the years as I have learned strategies from my doctor to nip them in the bud. This attack’s bud wouldn’t be nipped.

So at the beginning of July I broke up open a Covid Test and boy was it positive. I didn’t have to wait 15 minutes, as the sample percolated past the test line it brightened up with a big huge positive! Dang, I got Covid-19 or as some idiots call it, “The China Flue”, or the “Kung Flu”, “The Rona”,

So I isolated. I ate a lot of meals outside on the patio, at the kitchen counter standing up.

We were trying to figure out the rules. It was probably okay for me to load the dishwasher, but not to unload it. No sticking my hand in the frito bag in the pantry elsewise it is mine. That’s easy, it became mine. I moved upstairs and tried to keep to myself.

I’m retired so I didn’t really get a “Coronacation” and I was taking OTC decongestants that don’t mix with alcohol very well so I didn’t mix any “Quarantinis.” That first day I felt like crap and being the last day before a three day holiday the earliest virtual doctor visit I could get is going to be the day after I can emerge from my “iso.” I was able to turn things around by the next day. I didn’t have a fever and and my blood oxygenation stayed in the 96% to 100% range. The only thing is that every evening I get a huge headache that the OTC doesn’t really touch. It generally fades away after four hours and I sleep well.

Today, I’m on very little meds. I am very fortunate. I have personally known several people who died from this disease, most of them people younger than me. I had an adult friend who’s adult child died of it late last year after three months of misery in a hospital. I don’t know what these people’s vaccination status was, and I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter.

Ironically, I tested positive about two weeks after getting my second booster. That makes four jabs. The first jab caused no issues at all, the second caused minor problems on the day after as did the third injection. This last one kicked my butt for three days! Not bad but I was definitely “off my feed” as my cowboy friends might say.

So anyway, I’m lucky. For the longest time I thought every morning that I had it because I feel lousy most mornings because of almost year round allergy issues. And then after a while, it seemed like I was never going to get it.

But it got me this time. Now I am trying to figure out the way forward. Using the CDC “tool” online it looks like I can leave isolation the day after tomorrow but I should wear a mask when I am around others for five more days. (I never had a fever and symptoms are improving). (Check here for the CDC guidelines.)

What have I been doing on my coronacation. Reading a lot, online jigsaw puzzles. Checking out blogs, and seeing Lizzy the cat. She misses me.

She comes up a lot. Sometimes to just to say hello, other times whe wants petted, and sometimes she comes up and sits beside me. She doesn’t wear a mask though.

Anyway, I am looking forward to getting out of the house the day after tomorrow after my virtual doctor visit. Sorry, we can’t get together after that until next week.