…and finally it hit us.
Jetlag. Back to work after 3 wonderful weeks of holiday. Maybe a weak immune system… not enough anti-bodies after the last vaccine booster 6 months ago… feeling tired… it would have never come to my mind that this was the beginning of Covid. Not exactly sure where we caught it, also it doesn’t really matter.
How did it start? Being very very tired. I would get up after a full night of sleep… and feel tired. So tired that I had to have sleep breaks in between my work meetings. Luckily, we still work from home… when I felt cold at 25C degrees room temperature I thought that something was wrong and it wasn’t just about missing the Phoenix temperatures…
My body became sore all over, I had a slightly increased temperature and just slept and slept and slept. That was Thursday.
Friday: pretty much same thing: just tired & all day sleeping. Coffee didn’t taste any good (hubby couldn’t taste lemon anymore…). And because of the rally (yes, at that point I still hoped to be the co-pilot next day), I tested myself: a very light 2nd line came up. Bummer. Shock. Surprise. I was positive! It would have never come to my mind that this was Covid. Hubby tested 5 minutes later positive, too.
I don’t remember much Saturday besides a second Covid test clearly showing a positive result: this time 2 very purple bars. I just slept all day. My voice was gone, nose started running, coughing, headache – the classic symptoms.
By Sunday night I had slept so much that I couldn’t fall asleep anymore. Cough became the worst. We had rum & honey at midnight followed by honey water (you try to mix up your own medicine if that’s all you got at home). Well, it helped.
On Monday morning I felt the first time “awake”. Cough became much better. Voice was back but sounded like Donald Duck. Nose still running. I lived through the day with only one little nap. Hey, that’s huge progress! Hubby tested again: still positive.
So that’s it. We were experiencing Covid. In a lot of ways, it’s a bad cold, a lot of respiratory symptoms, stuffy nose, coughing, body aches and fatigue. The good news: pizza delivery for dinner. Yeah!
Luckily I went grocery shopping to fill up the fridge after our holiday… We were also surprised about foodie treasures hidden in our freezer… or leftovers from previous parties…
Luckily, we had manageable symptoms, and I stick with earlier thoughts: it’s best to just not get it! We had it, we survived it. Apparently, now we have an increased risk for Parkinson or Alzheimer’s… oh, that’s great!
The five main VOCs include Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.31), Gamma (P.1), Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529). Besides we have sub-variants BA.1, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5 – when people are asking which variant we had? God knows and who cares? We don’t…
Thanks for the vaccine which we were lucky enough to have last year. Thanks family, friends & neighbors for checking on us (and the red wine recommendations from France…)!
It’s been a week since the first positive test… this morning we still tested positive… We still got symptoms but feel much better. Hoping for a soon end of quarantine.
To do: stock up on essentials again: rum, more rum, honey, medicine, tissues, etc.
Take care, stay healthy!
We should be „antibody boostered“ now for the next 4 weeks. Yeah!
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