I’m one of those who says, “Hey, it was unprecedented, it was frightening, we all did the best we could, and I complied with everything that was asked.” Even so, this made me laugh. A lot.
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Was it the pottery in the background?
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It took a few years, but my family finally have all gotten COVID (and it all happened at the same time). My wife contracted it at work. The reason we know is the whole site got sick by Wednesday (as we are finding out now). Since we were all vaccinated, the symptoms sucked but were manageable. I will say the not being able to drop a deuce for two and a half days was an irritable feeling. My son and I are well on the mend. My wife and daughter are about a day behind in the recovery.
Dropping a day in my head was pretty COVID. After cooking a dinner to remember my dad’s birthday on Thursday (he would’ve been 91), the alarms on Friday for waking up surprised the hell out of me because somehow I thought it was Saturday. I asked my wife why the hell did she set an alarm for a Saturday. She reminded me it was only Friday, and maybe I ought to check my temperature.
It was 101.
What did I learn. The disease and the vaccination share the same side effect - warping the sense of time. 
So, in the words of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, “It’s time for coffee so I can move my bowels.” #ResidentAlien
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Since I left the nursing home in first week of July 2019, Ive been a loner/solo life whther I wanted to or not. I had about 7 months to start learning to walk again, and then BAM… my own medical experience interwoven with the behavior of Utahns during the Trump episode helped me understand they would NOT cooperate and self isolate/mask up. .So I went into personal lockdown a month before the state started mandating a broad one. I think it might have been 22 months before I was willing to go out and do anything in public that wasnt an urganet matter ( like VA appts, etc).
So I really did lose a sense of time – sometimes completely spacing out which day of the week it was. THe one upside of all this being cooped up in a glorified studio apt is that Ive had fairly low exposure, and the worst thing Ive dealt with was a vary nasty chest cold… I think I must have picked it up at one of the NIT games I went to with salUTE.
Im truly sorry all of you had to deal with it,but very happy to think no one is dealing with long-term damage.
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Tested positive this AM
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We went to the Kenny Chesney concert last night at Rio Tinto and my wife leans over and says “If I don’t get covid tonight, I never will.” She has not had covid. I have had it twice and I think I have been experiencing symptoms of long covid the past 6 weeks. Kenny Chesney puts on a great show.
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Are these two statements related?
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I had it in April for the second time. It was different this time, not the very mild symptoms I had 2+ years ago. I had one very uncomfortable afternoon of chills and mild fever. Mostly chills. Ugh. But that was it.
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I have never taken a covid test. And, I have never watched a Harry Potter film.
Coincidence?
Yes, Hope yho fell bvetter sooon. I experienced 24 hours of muscle aches, fever, headache and completely blocked sinuses. Not a runney nose: completely blocked with a film in my mouth from open mouth breathing. Yuck! Definetely take to bed and remain recumbant.
My wife had a cough, and a still has a severely sore throat x 3 days but I have not. Seemed to break last night though. Bad disease.
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I am sick so infrequently that I honestly enjoy the experience of a cold/flu.
It is pleasant to cuddle under blankets on the couch with ginger tea, read a book, sleep long hours, get kisses on the forehead…
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Agreed. I have almost read the Nutmeg Consolation between sleep. But I do think of how many have died from the Corona virus and how lucky I have been in my life.
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Tested positive this afternoon for COVID. First Time!
After almost 4 and a half years, I had sort of forgot all about it, and only went in to test, as I had a REAL sore throat, and have not had a cold or flu, or anything in 6+ years. I tested as an after thought on the off chance that I had it, and not wanting to infect my wife, or mother who both have medical conditions that create more risk.
What a pain in the A$$. It’s personally no worse than a mild cold, but not wanting to spread to those close to me makes me hyper vigilant - washing hands, wearing masks, Clorox wiping door knobs - sheesh, it brings back some really bad memories.
That said, to have avoided it for 4.5 years, I should simply be grateful.
I’m working on it 
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Can’t say with 100% assurity, but had it in December 2019,before it was identified. Came back from China and was off my feet for 2 weeks, My wife calls me Typhoid Larry. My doctor passed away from Covid in April 2020, so I’m also known as a killer.
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Hope you feel better! My wife and I recently got this version and then had rebound covid a week later. Strange disease.
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Get better soon.
Getting rid of the post-illness croup has been a pain. Having had a predisposition to bronchitis since I was very young, COVID flared it up. When I cough I sound like I’m still very ill, but I’m not. As my semi annual visit to the doctor is tomorrow, they will likely end up giving me the super cough suppressant to get me back to normal.
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I’m glad you have a mild case. I had it in 2022 and it was the sickest I have ever been in my life. I still feel like I lost some of my lung capacity after that as well.
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I caught it for the first time going to the Las Vegas bowl in December and gave it to my wife for Christmas. Fortunately it was a very mild case for both of us as my wife has significant health challenges.
We surprinsigly lost 3 people very close to us in 2021. Its still mind blowing that they are gone.
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