Guess about two weeks before Thanksgiving and just after coming back from a trip to Mexico Beach and/or a funeral that was attended by the wife she came down with the rona and I caught it as well. Went to the doc and got some albuterol and he told us various vitamins and supplements to take. Ran nearly a 100* fever for a week and a half, heavy congestion but didn't develop to pneumonia at that point. I completely lost my sense of smell and everything tasted like shit, still can't smell right. Had to pass on T'giving dinner, so the wife and I did the best we could with the 18# turkey we had thawing in the fridge. Froze half of it for Christmas. Lucky for me I have the option to work from home so was able to sporadically check up on things and keep from getting too plowed over. We both got to finally feeling ourselves about a week ago and finally tested negative again. Still haven't really felt like doing anything taxing.
We had our company Christmas party a couple of days ago and actually went to a music trivia thing we like last night. It was freaking packed. One of the sponsors of the event was there with one of those dollar bill shooters and good times were had with a crowd larger than I recall ever seeing there. Woke up this morning with my throat and ear messed up and that familiar taste in my mouth again. Looks like we might get to revisit this mess. My hope is that it won't be as potent as it was since we just got over it. Really of the hope it isn't that damned flu that is going around. A couple of our techs got very ill over the last week and their personal comments were that they would have traded for Covid.
The part of this whole thing that bothers me the most is that after all the world has been through with this, the isolation, the shutdowns, cancelled events and so on that I think I have learned now to have this fear of being in close contact with other people. Someone coughs now and you want to move across the room. The entire time at the event yesterday there was this strange anxiety about being there. Perhaps we can look forward to things being normal again, someday?
We had our company Christmas party a couple of days ago and actually went to a music trivia thing we like last night. It was freaking packed. One of the sponsors of the event was there with one of those dollar bill shooters and good times were had with a crowd larger than I recall ever seeing there. Woke up this morning with my throat and ear messed up and that familiar taste in my mouth again. Looks like we might get to revisit this mess. My hope is that it won't be as potent as it was since we just got over it. Really of the hope it isn't that damned flu that is going around. A couple of our techs got very ill over the last week and their personal comments were that they would have traded for Covid.
The part of this whole thing that bothers me the most is that after all the world has been through with this, the isolation, the shutdowns, cancelled events and so on that I think I have learned now to have this fear of being in close contact with other people. Someone coughs now and you want to move across the room. The entire time at the event yesterday there was this strange anxiety about being there. Perhaps we can look forward to things being normal again, someday?
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