BakerBoy
It's all small stuff.
I hear ya. Same for me--no idea how given the extreme isolation and care taken with PPE and disinfecting. Other than solitary walks in the neighborhood, my outings were only four trips to the grocery store from early March to late May when I came down with it. I was uber-careful with gloves, mask, touching, and disinfecting, etc., yet still it happened.Thanks for all the well wishes.
I'm 56 years old, no idea how I got COVID. I’ve followed all the protocols at work and when out and about, wearing masks except when home. I feel really terrible for people who have more poor outcomes or protracted illness as well as those who have died as a result. It shouldn’t be this way.
I'm 58 and the entirety of my medical history other than rare flu or cold, was a bout of meningitis in 2012--that took its toll (still tinnitus, balance, degradation of motor skills, and some 'feeling' impairment from that; partly why my motorcycling became less of my life). I suspected I was at higher risk of C19 complications given that event, hence why I was so careful with isolation and outings to reduce risk of contracting C19.
I'm 'humored' at all those that tell us what the symptoms are like (by those who've not had it), and how to avoid it (while they're doing less than I did to avoid it and they're simply lucky so far that they've not contracted it).
I journaled all my symptoms every day, and monitored (still do) my vitals daily, and worked throughout (staying quarantined, worked from home) as a way to make time pass. What else is there to do?
My taste is still off although slowly getting better, breath is still a bit hampered, heartbeat remains a bit elevated, and my voice is still raspy, now 3 months in the rear view mirror. Balance is just a touch more impaired than before. I'm back at the office half time and work from home half time--some people I know well but who don't know I've had it will out of the blue ask me something like "you look tired and your voice is different, you ok?".
I've had full tests and medical assessments and Drs have verified nothing else is going on. And yet I did not develop antibodies (have had two blood tests done). So I can get it again. My Dr. has been fond of saying "you're healthy as a horse" over the years at my physicals, and again last month, but I sure do not feel like it, even 3 months after contracting C19!
People experience it differently. But what's generally represented in the first half of the video--I got annoyed by it laboring the topic half way in and stopped watching--is not the only way it works as there are different symptoms.
Good and fast reading about typical 'symptom clustering' can be read here (mine was like cluster 4 as described here): https://covid.joinzoe.com/us-post/covid-clusters#
Another good read, although a bit more tedious is this paper. It illustrates the time-based behavior of the symptom clusters (graphics on bottom of page 4): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.12.20129056v1.full.pdf. In that paper, I had clusters 1 & 3 and some of 4, based on time.
There's a lot not yet understood.
So what? My commendation to folks in talking about it is keep positive, keep your PPE in use, and be diligent. Hopefully you won't be similarly unlucky to contract it before therapeutic drugs and/or vaccines become available. And if you do contract it, it is highly likely to be survived--just hope for antibodies to be found in your blood!
I could say more, but I've filtered out some words and stopped typing stuff.
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