Diane and I drove back to Western New York on Monday after spending a weekend in Ohio with Diane’s sister Carol. Patrick and Katie flew in to join us for Father’s Day. On Saturday, we all attended a High School Graduation Party along with 50 other people we didn’t know.
Diane and I both woke up on Tuesday after a night full of coughing and sneezing. Then things really went downhill: aches, pains, headaches, extreme fatigue. We spent most of Tuesday napping. But, we didn’t get any better.
After another crappy night of non-stop coughing, Diane brought out two Flowflex Covid-19 Antigen Home Tests. The results are above: two positive tests for Covid-19. Diane called her doctor and was told to take Mucinex. Diane was told to drink warm water with orange/lemon slices and two dollops of honey. And for fever and chills, take Afrin and tylenol.
My doctor told me to sleep a lot and drink a lot of fluids. Both doctors offered us Paxlovid but we both declined. We have friends that used Paxlovid who complained that Paxlovid was worse than Covid-19.
My throat was on fire Thursday despite my frequent gargling and drinking fluids. The fire subsided Friday, but both Diane and I suffered terrible fatigue. No energy.
Today, we’ll test again and see if we’re Covid-19 free. I never want to have this vile disease again! Have you had Covid-19?
Haven’t had it so far unless I didn’t show any symptoms. My daughters have both had it but we only sick for aboutnone day with what felt like mild flu. Quite a few people have had it in my apartment buildings. The guy across the hall has had it multiply times.
Steve, we know people who have had Covid-19 multiple times, too. Many of them are anti-vaxers.
No, and I’d rather not, thanks anyway! My daughters had it but they were mild cases and went away quickly!
Bob, what Diane and I have is not “mild” by my estimation! Constant coughing, brain fog, aches and pains. Truly a miserable experience!
Ann and I finally got it a couple months ago, but fortunately had very mild symptoms. People who are vaccinated don’t usually get it as bad as you have. We’re sorry to hear it, and hope you’re over it soon.
Jeff, I blame myself for getting Covid-19. The High School Graduation Party is turning out to be Super Spreader Event. Two more attendees have reported testing positive for Covid-19. There many be more…if they come forward.
Getting Covid for the first time is an event to remember, somewhat akin to losing your virginity for the first time.
Getting Covid for the first time is an event to remember, like losing your virginity for the first time. Get better soon!
get better soon.
Er…my computer seemed to hiccup.
I thought you were implying that people lose their virginity more than once…much like getting Covid more than once! Lol
The post-virginal sort of brain fog, or perhaps Jerry’s computer’s keyboard fog.
I had covid on 7. 21.2024. I had it January. I used this picture because I didn’t know due to new strands and new FDA Regulations. I also didn’t know if the fluid stained what you have the test on. I did exactly what the picture shows. I didn’t have a towel that was like that,, but I did have a comforter that looked the same. I placed to test the same way. Lol But I wanted to make sure how they displayed mine looked very similar. Due to being diagnosed with ADHA, and Anxiety. I made it as perfect as possible. I was scared losing a family member. There was no error. #ptsd #anxiety.. it a must for things to be perfect.
Jerry, this has been a lost week dealing with Covid-19. Nothing got done, nothing accomplished. I felt too sick to read. I slept a lot. What a waste of time!
Serious disease will do that. Get better.
Todd, the fact that I can’t read during this disease makes the situation all the more aggravating. All I want to do is sleep!
Indeed. I was barely conscious when I was admitted to hospital with my C19 in October. Podcasts, audiobooks and other audio media are your friends when the eyes won’t do too much.
I’m sorry to hear about this, George. I’ve had Covid twice—both times as fully vaxxed & boostered as it was possible to be. The first time was in 2022. It was very mild—I probably wouldn’t have even tested and just put my scratchy throat and sneezing down to seasonal allergies, but I had recently seen my sister for the first time in several years, and about a week later she called me to say she’d just tested positive for Covid. So I took a home test—and positive it was. Other than some cough medicine and sleep, I didn’t do too much to combat its effects. The second time was last August—and this case was much worse: chills, high fever, endless cough, aches, and fatigue. A home test was positive, so I went to Urgent Care (where a 90-year-old lady and I were the only people—including staff—wearing masks!) where the diagnosis was confirmed and I was given a prescription for Paxlovid. The doctor said he’d seen plenty of vaccinated people get Covid, but he hadn’t had to send any of them to the hospital—every patient he’d sent to the hospital was unvaxxed. I took the Paxlovid, and I think it helped me (at least the cough and chills went away, I still felt as weak as a newborn kitten), but I know other people have had a bad reaction to it.
Anyway, I hope you and Diane both recover soon and are none the worse for wear. Take care!
Deb, thanks for your kind wishes for recovery from this Covid-19 hell. Both Diane and I feel drained of all energy. Diane seems to be recovering faster than me. We’re both taking Mucinex which really works on cough suppression. We’re up to date on our Covid-19 vaccines. Our Big Mistake was not wearing our N95 masks at the High School Graduation Party. A dumb mistake that we’re paying the price for.
Deb, you mean people don’t lose their virginity more than once? Huh. So much for self-taught sex ed classes!
Well, Promise Keepers Re-virginize at times.
Sorry to read this and best wishes to you and your wife. Based on many of your posts here I know both of you have been careful when going out in public but this is a weird, tenacious bug and I have to believe that even if neither of you had left the house in the past four years this thing could have gotten to you one way or another so at least you’ve been enjoying life while being prudent. I hope this passes with no complications for either of you. Take care.
Yikes. Nooo!!! That’s awful. I know you are all vaxxed and boostered. Jackie always comments about how you and Diane are the only ones we know who still wear masks everywhere, but the one time you don’t, this happens. Major bummer. Feel better soon.
We’ve been pretty lucky with Covid, but then, we are pretty much loners who don’t associate with other people! Well, we’re home much of the time. We do go out shopping nearly every day, though that does not entail close interaction, and we eat out pretty often (ditto).
When I had my prostate issue in 2020, they made me take a Covid test at the hospital a few days before surgery. Amazingly, it came back positive, though I had not had ANY symptoms, and still didn’t after the positive test. It was almost surely a false positive, as the next day Jackie went to urgent care and got tested and she was negative. If I had it, I’m sure she would have too. (I had to wait an extra month for surgery – they would not let me in the hospital after a positive test, and the doctor had no earlier openings.) Since then, we’ve been fortunate. That’s another reason I don’t want to get on an airplane. Jackie took a home test once or twice when she was sick, but the symptoms were different and she was negative each time.
Just take it easy and get better soon!
Jackie might be like John—he’s never gotten Covid even though he lives with someone (me) who’s had it twice. I call John a “Covid unicorn” because he’ hasn’t gotten Covid…yet.
Deb, Patrick told us years ago: “Everyone will get Covid-19.” Diane and I tried to prove him wrong…and failed.
Jeff, Diane and just took the Covid-19 test and…Diane is negative and I’m positive! Major bummer! But, at least one of us is getting better.
Sorry to hear this George. Jeff’s cousin was fully vaccinated and got so sick he had to go to the emergency room for an intravenous treatment. His wife took Paxlovid. They had flown to a wedding in California. If you don’t continue to improve, you should consider Paxlovid.
Feel better,
Jackie
Jackie, Diane’s latest Covid-19 test was negative, mine was positive. Diane has more energy and other than an occasional cough, she’s feeling better. I’m still down in the dumps.
My friend got it in NY and I found an urgent care where the doctor tested us both (I tested negative) and she positive. He gave her a prescription for Paxlovid, which seemed to be helping. Sadly, we had to fly home although we masked up and stayed as far from people as we could. It is probably she got it on the plane flying in. This is her third time. I only had it in March 2020. Sorry George. It was bound to catch up with you eventually.
Patti, hope you had a great time in NYC! And, I’m glad you escaped Covid-19. I’m drained, dazed, and confused.
George, I hope you and Diane feel better soon. My wife and I tested positive in October, while we were waiting for the local pharmacies to receive the new vaccine formulation. That bumped us over to January for the booster. Our symptoms were very mild, and after a tele-consult with our. doctor, we decided to forego Paxlovid. If our symptoms had been as severe as yours, we probably would have gone with the Pax. Our elected officials are not serving us well on this issue (are they serving us well on any issue?) by enabling the moronic anti-vaxxers and ignoring the need to look ahead and prepare for the next super-epidemic sure to follow. It was infuriating to see poor Tony Fauci raked over the coals again by these lamebrains for meeting an emergency head-on in 2020 with prudent public health practices that have been accepted as a matter of course for centuries. The ignorant, stupid, and opportunistic are determined to do the rest of us in.
Fred, the inmates are running the asylum today. To watch a brilliant public servant like Dr. Fauci insulted and threatened by the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene disgusts me.
Oh my ,George – I feel really sorry for you and your wife but I’m sure you’ll make it!
I had a similar story:
After (almost …) breaking my spine two years ago I was kept in the hospital like a large baby, lying on my back, just rising my head, no sitting, standing etc – not even for the toilet so they had to change my diaoers several times each day.
After two months and the usual screnings like X-ray, CMT etc they thought that I might be ready to be checked for an operation on the spine – not really easy. For that I would be transported to the Hungarian military hospital which is the only one to do these operations but of course a Covid test was necessary – and positive, though I didn’t have any symptoms!
So I spent my next days in the Covid room – yes omly 3 people in the whole hospital.
The good news was that when I was taken to the Military hospital two weeks later for checking again they observed that I was healing well – no operation necessary!
So I stayed for another 3 or 4 weeks in the hospital’s rehab center, slowly getting stronger again.
But I still have been using a cane for longer walks and it’ll stay like that …
Btw my wife never had any symptoms though she alsd took tests.
In a way it was entertaining, the Hungarian hospital staff often came to me for conversations or when they had questions because it got known tthat I also speak English. Of course my wife visited me almost every day and brought some nice German chocolate for the staff.
The male nurse that cared for me usually at the end of my stay got a t-shirt from the Kennedy Space Center that we had bought while visiring Florida many years ago – he was happy!
So again I wish you, George and everybody else here all the very best!
Glad things are mostly better, Wolf.
Wolf, every time I visited my mother in the Memory Care Unit of Northgate, I always brought the staff chocolates. The staff loved them! And, my mother got better care!
George…hang in, and this will almost certainly pass without too much lasting ill effect. That said, I appear to have contracted an ear infection, I suspect from all the dust kicked up from moving items around, fixing a few, and washing all the clothes that have been in storage in the Grand Unjunkiying of the house (though I was concerned that it was strep, or even C19. since my bad bout with the latter in October of last year, despite regular vaccing and perhaps contracted from sitting in front of the a/c at the Philadelphia Helium comedy club one night, felt for all the world like an evil combo of serious flu and the worst strep throat ever…a visit to Urgent Care has me now taking an antibiotic for the inflammation in the ears.
Sorry you’ve both had to deal with this. But there’s definitely a rising wave of C19 of late…RFK enthusiasts are probably not helping thus. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant since quarantine, though I will take out.
Todd, you’ve been through some rough times with Covid-19 so you know what we’re going through. Diane testing negative today gives me hope that there’s light at the end of this long, dark tunnel!
I was feeling pretty close to normal after my three days in the hospital. May this soon be a memory for you….and, Patti, glad you didn’t re-contract it.
Todd, this Covid-19 episode has stolen a week out of my Life. I haven’t been able to do anything other than drink fluids, take the Muscinex, wander around the house in a fog, and then go back to sleep. I’m glad that hospitalization wasn’t necessary, but all in all, Covid-19 did a number on Diane and me. Diane never naps. But every day this week, she’s gone to the couch and fallen instantly asleep. Not normal behavior.
George, I am so sorry and please tell Diane I am thinking of both of you.
I have not had Covid, nor has Glen, but we are pretty much like Jeff and Jackie and don’t go out much. You and Diane had some bad symptoms and it is really unfair that you don’t feel well enough to read.
Tracy, thanks for your kind words. Diane and I were doing great at avoiding Covid-19 until we got overconfident. Now, we’re paying the price! Hope you and Glen can stay Covid-19 free.