{"id":14037,"date":"2022-07-05T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2022-07-05T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:31:52","slug":"living-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14037","title":{"rendered":"Living with Covid 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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”, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pork loin and risotto,
And Heather can really put together a salad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So I isolated. I ate a lot of meals outside on the patio, at the kitchen counter standing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first couple days I was craving protein
And the cantaloupe sure felt good on my throat.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could get fresh cantaloupe year round?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have been editing old photos instead of making new ones so much.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking forward to getting out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Online jigsaw puzzles are a life saver.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July 4th fun
We socially distanced from each other and other folks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of Lizzy’s “just saying hi visits”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other times she is kind of demanding about attention.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really demanding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She’s looking at me like,
“Why are not downstairs with everybody else\/”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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