Day 3 of covid, ready to be done with it.

Re: Day 3 of covid, ready to be done with it.

I have never had covid. Ever. Not once. Not a single time. Ever.

I'm 0-35 to 40-ish on nasal swabs. PCR, RAT, doesn't matter. I have yet to ever test positive for covid. Now, to be fair, I have never once, in my 47 years on this blue marble, EVER tested positive for ANYTHING with a swab up the nose. So there's that.

Best I can guess, I'm 90% sure I've had covid three times. Could be 4 or 5 times, but three seems a safe bet. If everyone else in the house tests positive, and are sick, and I'm sick as well, with the same symptoms, I will assume I've had it. That's three times now I've had it, and everyone else in the house, and I have yet to test positive.

Only had a fever once. Sniffles twice. The snot is a different texture from allergies and colds. One mild cough. Once had a low fever. Lost taste and smell once. The worst part starts about 3 weeks later. FATIGUE, like bad. Had that twice. Lasts a good month or so. Brain fog lasts several weeks as well. The long covid stuff is real. It hasn't been debilitating, but it definitely slows me WAY down for SEVERAL weeks.

Paxlovid. Stat.***

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Broseph, I just popped positive myself about an hour or two ago,

Nov 9, 2023, 8:24 PM

first time testing positive since Covid was invented. Not sure if I picked it up in Clemson--Friday night at Loose Change/Backstreets/Overtime would be good candidates. Tuesday rolled around and I started getting congested and got a bit of a sore throat. By that evening, I had some of the worst fever chills I've ever had--every bit as bad as the flu that I usually get once every 5 years, give or take.

Felt surprisingly good yesterday, went to Costco with the wife (this was before testing, obviously), did some stuff around the house...then started feeling bad again last night. Sweated like crazy all night, but couldn't take the covers off because freezing. Had to wash my sheets and pillows and mattress pad this morning, and not for any fun reason. Weird thing is I'm pretty sure I've had Covid once or twice prior--it's definitely run through our house, I've just never tested positive. I did have antibodies at a high enough level to be able to donate plasma to convalescent Covid patients, and that was over a year after taking the vaccine, so that would probably indicate that I'd had it somewhat recently.

Worst part is, my sister and her spouse are coming into town tomorrow for Dad's bday on Saturday, have 3.5 bushels of oysters reserved, and also have reservations at Hall's tomorrow night. That might be the worst part. I missed going to Hall's probably 5-6 years ago with the same crowd because of the flu--I gotta be sick AF to not go grub at that joint, and I was.

Anyway,