Posted by:
azsteve
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Date: July 17, 2021 09:04PM
Late last week, I started feeling pretty sick. I went down the checklist for Covid-19 and all except two of the listed symptoms applied. So I did a Walgreen's rapid test yesterday, which came back positive.
Ironically, the past three weeks, I've been isolated, more-so than at any time since the pandemic started. That was quite coincidental and not intentional. I must have caught it from a McDonald's or other store cashier somewhere since I haven't gone anywhere else.
It came-on Wednesday night with a fever and terrible headache, nausia, and cold chills. Then my lungs got conjested and a dry (but still productive) caugh developed. I use an inhalant perscription for seasonal allergies and that inhalant helps a lot to make the caugh productive at getting some of the junk out of my lungs. By Friday, I was so weak that it was really hard just getting ready to leave the house to get the covid test. Every muscle feels very weak and all I want to do is to sleep at every thought if I get out of bed or expend any energy at all. Just doing the laundry had to be with carefully budgeted energy and with lots of effort when I finally did get the energy to get out of bed. My next big goal is to make it up to Walgreens again to buy an inexpensive O2 sensor. So far my lips haven't started turning blue. I am sleeping most of the twenty-four hour day, for now. Tylenol keeps the otherwise 100.7 degree temperature in the normal range. Other than the initial headache which hasn't come back, none of these symptoms so far seem too threatening. But all of them put together make a person pretty uncomfortable. I've had past cases of bronchitis and even walking pneumonia that were much worse than this, at least as things go so far. But I am feeling a little bit stronger today than I was yesterday. If it doesn't get worse, it'll just be a matter of riding this out at home until it goes away. If this is all the Covid-19 does to me for a few weeks, the threat isn't as big as I supposed it might be. I figured this would happen eventually since I didn't get vaccinated. I guess if it kills me, I'll have been wrong.
Anyone else here get the Covid-19? If so, what was your experience like?