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”,
And Heather can really put together a salad
So I isolated. I ate a lot of meals outside on the patio, at the kitchen counter standing up.
And the cantaloupe sure felt good on my throat.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could get fresh cantaloupe year round?
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.
We socially distanced from each other and other folks.
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.
“Why are not downstairs with everybody else/”
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.
Esperó que te mejores. Te mando un beso.
I think Lizzy is concerned about you. I know how much you hate being cooped up and I’m thankful you didn’t get any sicker than you did. At least now you have some extra protection for a few months.
That orange fruit looks like what we call Rockmelon, it’s usually a bit expensive here but I love it when it’s in season in Summer. It sounds like you had a mild covid case, it took me 6 weeks to get over it.
Your food looks good. Glad you are feeling better and very soon you will be able to get out of the house. I think Lizzie misses you and wants to keep you company since you are all alone by yourself.
Glad you had lighter symptoms. My daughter had it with terrible symptoms, granddaughter had light symptoms like you. I want this to be over already! Glad nobody in your household got in. Nobody else in my daughter & granddaughter’s household did either.
I’m happy you had a “relatively mild” case (such as mild is for this illness), are recovering, and that your family didn’t get it. It’s so strange, this illness, and the way it hits people so differently. I think we are all more than ready to have it gone. Take care of yourself, Yogi!
I especially like the edit in #5. Your sweet kitty and the dog in the buggy, hehehe 🙂
It’s good that it was an easy process and I hope there won’t be any long-term effects. We haven’t had it yet, but who knows?
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I’m going to assume a week later you are recovered. Sorry to hear this, and I am so far behind. Wonder how many have had it without knowing?
I see that by being away from blogland for over a month I missed your whole Covid thing. Very scary and I’m glad you’re better, but do take care. Interesting about the allergies because Bill has the same sort of thing and it has been much better in the last few years because we are usually away from Oregon in the Spring (big grass growing area here — a trigger) and because anti-allergy meds are better now than they used to be. But for the last three years every time every sneeze or sniffle we wonder if it is Covid or just allergies acting up. So far, I guess it’s just been allergies.