rona moved in: ilx0rs with the bug report on their progress

isolating from mom that is in my own room. and a KN95

Good thoughts, that's a lot. Hope improvement continues.

the big improvement is in her cough, thankfully. suggests that the bronchitis might indeed be separate bacterial infection and that antibiotics are working.

mom has essentially beaten the bronchitis and sinus infection and just has residual gunk from the bronchitis.

still testing positive, but line has gotten fainter finally.

I continue to test negative and feel absolutely fine, and if mom is negative soon, I might completely luck out again. especially since we're basically in separate rooms and masking when in the same room.

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this lollipop sucks, who comes up with these flavors

Get well! How do you feel?

Not too bad, actually. A little achy, sinuses swole but not runny, feels like I have a slight fever but my thermometer says no. I caught it from my wife, who got it from her cousin last Sunday on an eclipse-watching trip. She had one very uncomfortable day but is on the upswing.

Hello Covid, my old friend
I've come to cough with you again...

A buddy tested positive this morning, so I thought I should take a test as well... Positive!

It's been a couple years since I came down with the 'Rona.. I thought I was having a little case of sniffles mixed with hay fever; nope, it's Covid

Current CDC guidelines say to isolate until you've gone 24 hours with no fever, without using fever-reducing meds (which I haven't been)... currently at 99.6* so not too bad

Sorry to hear Andy!

Last night was pretty rough, but I feel better this morning... I think it was the hot toddy

My wife and I caught it again about a month ago now, it was milder than the first time (1 day down-and-out instead of 3+) but we both have a lingering brain fog. Best wishes to Andy and anyone else suffering now.

okay I tested negative over a week ago (monday may 6th) but I'm still coughing shit up

The mild but persistent cough that I still have started a couple of days after I got rid of the virus.

Felt subpar a couple days but woke yesterday to v sore throat. No fever ever. Thought strep as that’s been around, took a slightly expired home test yesterday afternoon, turned positive as the drop was hitting the strip practically. Feel improved today, but a fresh test also shows clear positive.

What caused me to go from strep assumption to Covid test was that—the hair on my scalp hurt yesterday afternoon. Still does

BF and his son both came down with it yesterday (thats round 2 for the bf as well). Given we suspect they picked it up out at a show on the weekend that means it was brewing in em for 2 full days without symptoms so I'm now worried I'll come down with it as well, and as a result have had to cancel a planned trip interstate to visit my ailing dad (because I cant risk going near an elderly old man with possible cooties). Blasted timing!

I actually ran into the woman last night that gave me covid! She was apologetic but of course she didn't know it when we were chatting in the bar - anyway I told her that getting covid was actually a good booster ahead of my summer travels, so not to worry about it

been 4 days since I was exposed and I have a sore throat/am tired ,but im still testing negative. Annoying though, us all wearing masks indoors all the time is unpleasant (I get hot flashes and sweat a lot)

still shitty but my ilx thraed awarenesses and ppds (posts per day) are posting personal bests all fuckin day woo

well not quality, but quantity baybee

Started getting a sore throat yesterday, took one test the normal way and one test with a throat swab. The second one came back positive so I'm acting on the assumption I have covid, staying home from teaching, making plans to be out for days etc. So far it feels like a cold with an extra symptom of my stomach being a little messed up.

Last time I had covid, though, it was ten days of absolute misery: fever, body aches, tachycardia, trouble breathing, the works, followed by six months of long covid. That was when I'd already been sick for weeks with c.diff, though, so I'm hoping I have a much more functional immune system now. The promising thing is that this is day two and still mild. Last time it was mild for day one and then day two I woke up barely able to move.

RAT test finally showed up as positive this afternoon. I clearly had covid and knew it already (hacking irritating cough and general aches/malaise)

One weird thing this and last time I had it is no fever. But I'm returning to that feeling that - Lily Dale, I recall us talking about this last time round! - like my chest is heavy, even though I can breathe ok.

I am in day 5 from positive, my second bout after 18 mos ago, this sucks, i feel bad but not bedridden, have never had a fever this time. i actually feel slightly worst today than yesterday didn’t expect that. so bo room to complain, but you get ‘em here.

so much guitar practice that’s not the worst yay.

i should practice screen typing

Day 3: So far this sucks but is not nearly as bad as last time. Just feels like an unpleasant cold with fever and headache and lots of coughing. If there's going to be weird spooky shit like last time, it hasn't set in yet.

I've heard here in the Bay Area that there's definitely a 'wave' going on... college classes being cancelled due to high rates of infection. It seems to not be the worst strain but pretty prolific nonetheless

maybe, but worth noting that both nationally, in all four regions, and in California specifically, COVID wastewater levels are at "minimal" levels per the CDC. usually we'd see that jump significantly if there was an actual wave - worth noting as well that norovirus is still raging nationally at high levels, so that could be a culprit as it hasn't really backed off.

maybe sick people are hording their faeces

One more Paxlovid data point for ya…

Got Covid for the second time in December, immediately was very sick, but decided to ride it out.

On morning of day four I was still incredibly sick, getting sicker, and because my first round of Covid resulted in about 4 months of scary long Covid kind stuff I broke down and started taking the pax.

By the evening I felt 80% better and the next morning barely felt sick at all. Tested negative two days after the initial pax, no rebound. I know there have been vastly different paxlovid outcomes for most folks, but it absolutely felt like a miracle drug for me.

oh hi covid

:(

oh no! is this your second time?

third, first time since last january. so far significantly less horrible than it was last year. likely caught it from my guitarist, who caught it from his students. sometimes outdoor spaces such as a bar/restaurant backyard are not really "outdoor"

feel much better on day two than i ever have when i’ve had this horrible disease. almost more like i got a booster shot. still very sleepy and sneezy but

symptoms abruptly stopped today. so grateful this was a much less intense experience than the last time

were you on Paxlovid?

i couldn’t get it!!! i got a prescription but my pharmacy was out of stock and couldn’t order it (????)

i did not investigate further bc i was so tired

My covid was quite mild this time round - no fever, only sick for about 5 days, most of which was just malaise and cough.
This time though Ive really struggled with fatigue since.

i had the fever for the first day but i always get the fever, every time, even every booster shot. this time i kept falling asleep while trying to watch the og mad max and had intense fever dreams about trying to build these dense impassable almost steampunkish road blockades. i woke up every hour and every time i went back to sleep it was the same dream. the only comparable sequences of dreams i've had to the covid fever ones have usually preceded food poisoning

my album came out *and* i'm covid-free.... best friday ever

Man, the turnaround these days is remarkable.

A few days ago I got back from a work trip in Singapore, a convention attended by people from all over the world. Feeling relieved that I did not come down with COVID despite the fact that several of my coworkers did.

I have the novel coronavirus

:(

at what point will this coronavirus no longer be ‘novel’

https://criticalflame.org/the-novel-is-dead-long-live-the-novel/

covid-19 died when the first epidemiologist said ‘covid’s still novel, covid’s still novel’

this is worse than last time!

I got it on Tuesday, had a fever for a day and a nasty headache that lasted Tuesday night through Thursday, but once I got a decent night’s sleep on Thursday night I felt way better, basically just have mild fatigue at this point.

all clear. amazingly, only one other person in the house got it, and they got it long enough after I was all clear that it's not even clear they got it from me.

definitely in the middle of a national wave in the US, both anecdotally and https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker?charts=&selectedChartId=8e7ddf.

It seems the current strain is less catchy? At my wedding last year my best man was the only one who got COVID despite all the time I spent with him. This year I was at a wedding that had only a few cases despite proximity