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Out of the woods! Still exhausted! The last two days have been better. I am still exhausted and I have a cough and some mild congestion. But I think I might be done. So I am slowly returning to normal. I am still cleaning and limiting interactions – masking when out of the house or around anyone else. But again better. The only thing I wish I knew is which variant I had. That would be helpful. If it’s the newest one then I will have some time until I have to seriously worry about the next new one. Of course, if it’s not the newest and grooviest of the covids, then I will just have to still play it …

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Let the sanitizing begin. Closer to normal? Me, probably never Another long night of sleep after a long day of exhaustion. I woke up once very nauseated but was able to get back to sleep. Yesterday between the tired stages, I was able to slowly put ornaments on the tree. And even that was tiring. I think it might be a bit longer before I’m ready to run a marathon or walk around the block. The symptoms I’m having now are a little less but in some ways changing. No fever and just general mild aches. Some intermittent headaches. Some nasal congestion but that’s a norm for me in the winter. The odd ones are that my hearing is worse …

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Is It Safe to Come Out of Isolation? Maybe. It’s 9 am here and I am almost awake. At least I think so. My brain still feels like the cobwebs of the night are tangled within the neuron strands. They are preventing me from thinking too hard, if at all. One side of my head feels a little different than the other. But I can’t tell what is going on. But I don’t feel too ill. So that’s a plus. I have finished the last of the horse pills that are Paxlovid. Yeah. So hopefully I am done with treatments and am into the recovery phase of this disease process. Until I went through this myself, I really didn’t understand …

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A Break to the End? Last night I slept another nine hours. That after resting a good part of yesterday. Playing with covid is tiring work. It’s been the hardest thing for me so far. For that I’m thankful. But when I’m used to sleeping 6-7 hours a night and having some energy, this additional downtime is a real killer. The good news is that I woke up without a fever. Hallelujah. I did have a headache this morning, but a little Tylenol and it went away. I have tried to use the time that I am not resting for some productivity, but that’s more wishful hoping than reality. I have done some work cleaning out emails and organizing research. …

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Better Maybe…Maybe Not Day 6 was like the groundhogs day of day 5. A slight fever. Some more aches. And a lot of being exhausted. Two more doses of three horse pills each. A lot of fluid and a lot of downtime. Read and sleep. Cough and ache. Sweat and shiver. In bed. In a chair. A little of this and not a lot of anything. A sort of brain fog makes everything a bit slower, but oxygen saturation is still good and my wife hasn’t run to safer ground. So all is good. As I look over the changing tide of covid around me through data and news reports, it is clear the next ripple is upon us. I …

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And let the Aches Begin More tired. Slept eight full hours – generic version of nyquil induced. Got up and stumbled around a bit feeling worse. Back to bed and slept another couple of hours. Awake again, at least my eyes are open. My brain seems to work in fits and starts, but at least I can still manage a few words here. Maybe after I’m fully awake without brain freeze, I won’t be too embarrassed about what I write. First fever this morning. Not much. 98.9. Since I generally run in the mid 97s, this seems like a firestorm to me. Tylenol and we’ll see from there. Fourth of ten doses of Paxlovid in me now. Three horse pills …

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Paxlovid to the Rescue? As I got up this morning, my nose was leaking like a bad faucet. My head was fuller than usual. Full of what I don’t know since the brain inside the head is not working at peak performance. My body ached, but not too much more than this old body aches every day. So overall, day 4 seems to be heading off to a good start for having covid. Yesterday I got in touch with my primary care doctor’s staff to give them the lay of the land. For the first time in a long time, I got a pretty quick reply back. Take some over-the-counter meds and he was going to call in a prescription …

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Ok for Being Run Over by a Bus Another day, another day with covid. Still not terrible. I’m more exhausted today. Some slight congestion in my right lung. Feeling like I need to surround myself with a giant electric blanket and put it on some toaster setting. So about how I expected to feel on Day 3. Ironically still no fever. I think my body has forgotten how to keep my temperature even up to normal. Last night I did more mindless things as I tried to stay awake more. The good news is that the mindless task I choose was working on my massive bookmark collection. With all the research I do and having a very poor memory, bookmarks …

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Looks like America Has Forgotten the Pandemic OK, I have covid. I am positive and doing ok. Now the next thing is to make sure my lovely bride of 45 years is also ok. We needed that especially since tomorrow she is to go do her duty as Gigi, babysitter to the two greatest grandchildren on earth. Yeah, I’m just a little biased. So logically we have been trying to get her a test. This should be the easiest thing about this disease at this juncture. Should be. But of course, nothing is ever easy. It’s like the world has declared the pandemic is over. At first, I thought it was easy. I got my wife an appointment at the …

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