Tuesday, February 1, 2022
744 days of this. The numbers are still moving downward here but now the building is filled with covid cooties. 😷

I'm having a bad day. 😂

Friday February 4, 2022
USA deaths... 924,530
We have more covid deaths than France, Australia, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Austria, Germany, South Africa combined.

Kansas... deaths climbing
my county... deaths climbing

And then eight days later we look to be headed for at least a respite because reporting numbers are plummeting, which I've been expecting because the hundreds of data I pay attention to. After this building has finished its slow moving crawl of confirmed and presumed contact cases right now I am really looking forward to a break from bugging in. It may turn out to be the eye of the storm between waves... or something better. But I'll take even a break if that's all I get for now.

Well, hello old thread.
Things here in the UK are a bit curious at the moment. Almost all the COVID-related restrictions have been removed, the Government will shortly stop supplying free tests (so most people won't even know if they've got it), cases are rising slowly but deaths are prety flat.
I'll collate some statistics and share them later.
Closer to home, Mrs Sheddi became the first of the four of us to test positive for COVID    That was last week. She had mild cold-like symptoms; runny nose, sore throat, occasional cough. We couldn't easily isolate her (and she didn't feel "ill" or want to be isolated) so we all mixed as normal for the week.
She's now testing as clear and the three of us seem to have avoided catching it from her. Considering how transmissable it's meant to be, that surprises me; we are all multiple-vaxxed so maybe that has protected us?
We're due to test again tomorrow so I'll let you know if that changes anything.

Quote from: sheddi on March 12, 2022, 11:55:32 AM
Well, hello old thread.
Things here in the UK are a bit curious at the moment. Almost all the COVID-related restrictions have been removed, the Government will shortly stop supplying free tests (so most people won't even know if they've got it), cases are rising slowly but deaths are prety flat.
I'll collate some statistics and share them later.
Closer to home, Mrs Sheddi became the first of the four of us to test positive for COVID    That was last week. She had mild cold-like symptoms; runny nose, sore throat, occasional cough. We couldn't easily isolate her (and she didn't feel "ill" or want to be isolated) so we all mixed as normal for the week.
She's now testing as clear and the three of us seem to have avoided catching it from her. Considering how transmissable it's meant to be, that surprises me; we are all multiple-vaxxed so maybe that has protected us?
We're due to test again tomorrow so I'll let you know if that changes anything.

Hi Sheddi, glad you're all doing ok.

Here I/we are over two years later and another wave is moving arond the globe. Kansas & my county seem to be bottoming out on Ba.1. Good news. I'm causciously out and about, but not gathering or dining out, even coffee houses which I greatly enjoy. But am pretty sure I'm going to a movie next week, early in the day.

Asia, the Pacific islands, Vietnam, Europe are being hammered. Looks like Britain may be moving that direction.

Ba.2 is not currently known to be worse but it now has a growing foothold here, and it's more contagious than Ba.1 at this time, which is exactly when our vaccinations are starting to wane.

I feel like we here are in the eye of the hurricane, which I will take advantage of... until it gets (if it gets) rough again.

As of yesterday our county hospital has one patient, but two more deaths. Both my age. Don't know vaccine status. I do have RAT tests in house now.

Tested positive today. Symptoms thus far are throat and fever.

Hope you feel better soon and don´t get any of the nasty stuff. Hang in there. 

Yes do take care and here's hoping that it's a mild case. Keep us posted if you feel up to it.

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on July 01, 2022, 01:00:38 AMTested positive today. Symptoms thus far are throat and fever.

UPDATE please

Update

July 6th, still testing positive as of today. Sore throat a prob for the first couple of days, head splitting headache too, small amount of fever.

Otherwise just tired tired tired, sleeping 14-19 hours at a time. Up no more than four then back to sleep.

Food and water intake sufficient.

Last two days feeling out of it mentally but blood oxygen stays high.

Got in a pansy pity party, tears and all, thinking it's supposed to be a three, maybe four day thing so why. I mean I have the stupid RAT tests that notoriously give false negatives. But not mine. The odds of false positives single digits with these RATs.

I was comforted to have neighbor say her adult son is on day nine of positive, two more relatives at two weeks. And there's my friend's husband hospitalized five weeks. So I did all but main line caffeine this evening to Wake Up. Don't really know how I feel except for runny nose and intermittent headache cause I'm so jacked on caffeine.

But it's a comfort to know I'm not aberrant in having it this long.
😁

You're not in the hospital so that's a win right there. Getting ridiculous amounts of rest is probably the best treatment at this stage.

Hang in there and feel free to vent because yes, it really is sucky you're having to deal with this.  We're a safe space for you. 

Quote from: Ever (Zombiepreparation) on July 06, 2022, 06:01:37 AMSo I did all but main line caffeine this evening to Wake Up. Don't really know how I feel except for runny nose and intermittent headache cause I'm so jacked on caffeine.

Well, that doesn't sound like the worst way to feel, so I'll count that as a positive.  


Sorry to hear you're going through it, regardless--frustrating too, knowing how many precautions you have been taking...like majorhavoc said, vent away.  Though I'd say it's just providing a personal editorial touch to your sitrep, myself, but either way... 

Yesterday was the first day I could say I was actually feeling good. Oddly, I had begun testing negative but getting more and more dizzy and loopy. Blood pressure was staying perfect, eating & water/non-caffine liquid consumption still fine, sleeping normally now, more movement/stretching/going outside, trying to take walks but too unsteady... what was going on here. Finally checked blood oxygen and it was down to 86. (95+ being health level) What the frack?

I eventually tried prolonged deep breathing and could get it 'up' to 95. It wouldn't stay there very long, dropping into the 80s again not long after each time I stopped. So have spent these last days in focussed deep breathing sessions while I've been awake. I decided to string together a bunch of old beads I have. Enough that the in/out count is around 17 minutes long and wear them wherever I am or whatever I'm doing. Seems to be working for now. I've got it now to where it's only dipping to the low 90s when it drops and I can bring it up to 97 most breathing sessions. Nobody seems to notice me doing this yet. Maybe it just looks like I'm fidgeting with my necklace or something?

Anyway, not dizzy & loopy all day yesterday. And had a good long stretch of walking too.

Seems whenever my O2 level is checked it comes in at 94%. Really happy to hear your COVID specific symptoms are resolving but that O2 level issue is a tad concerning.  COVID is a respiratory disease after all. Have you talked to your doctor about this? Maybe you need to be on some sort of steroidal rescue inhaler for a while until your lungs fully recover.

Hang in there.

Just tested positive

Is there some place I can contact to get a T shirt if I survive?

I've never yet had Covid19, but so many people that I know are getting it now for the first time. I hope all of you who have it recover well. It's worth noting that I developed asthma from a respiratory virus I got in 2008, so respiratory viruses can have long term effects. Steroid inhalers are helpful.

Quote from: flybynight on July 14, 2022, 11:15:40 AMJust tested positive

Say it isn't so! Rough news there, flybynight. How are you doing?? Hopefully it'll be there and gone like a breeze for you.

Quick question: You didn't get it from me here did ya? I know I wasn't masked when I was typing.  🤔 Seriously though this ba.5 is bat shit contagious.


Re your question about the shirts... ask and it shall be answered.
a couple places to start.
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/i-survived-covid-19

Then there's amazon of course
https://www.amazon.com/Survived-COVID-Whats-Superpower-T-Shirt/dp/B09FC74LWM


I think I'll start watching for one that says:
I survived 2020
I survived 2021
I began losing it in 2022

FWIW, my wife had it a few weeks ago.  ~48 hours and done.  She drove me to where I was backpacking (About 4 hours) went home, started feeling ill, and tested positive the next day. 2 days later, she was good-to-go...
I do not believe I had it, BUT the symptoms also mimicked the issues I was having backpacking through the mountains in record breaking heat...  I did not lose the sense of smell or taste, so I'm going with a 'no' or asymptomatic...
-Cough, runny nose  (Slight cough I attributed to unfamiliar plants in bloom)
-Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
-Fatigue
-Muscle or body aches
-Headache
-Nausea or vomiting