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

Thanks for keeping everyone informed, I'm sure it's a struggle.

best wishes to you both

Best wishes to you both.

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Damn Tracer, hang in there.

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fuck, tracer. get well soon. and thanks for keeping us updated here - this sort of thing really helpful (and dare i say it interesting)

Get well soon. Hope it does mean you can't get it again at least.

<3 Tracer all the best to you and family. thanks for posting your updates. what fizzles just said.

Hold tight Tracer. Honestly this sounds like a real motherfucker, something especially cruel about the way it seems to trick everyone into thinking they're improving for a bit before finding new and more horrific ways to brutalise them.

following, and wishing both of you the best

Thanks all. Feeling much better today. 8-y-o’s fever came back in the middle of the night. When I went down for my pee he was calling out that he couldn’t go back to sleep. So I calpol’ed him up and today he’s.... fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sending love; fight through.

Friday 3 April
Last night decided to watch 'View From The Top' (Paltrow, Ruffalo, 2003). A more hallucinatorily bad movie I may have never seen. Everything is so airless and off about it, it's just bananas.

The Lovely Emma B's sleep anxiety has decided to return, which is unhelpful. Paul's fever came back in the night. Some Calpol took care of it.

For the first time in a long time none of us went outside at all. It just felt like too much.

Something I haven't noted yet, but which has ben a feature of the last week, is a ringing in my ears. It's not overwhelming but it's pretty much always there. I notice it particularly in the mornings. Which throws another log on the fire of the feeling that every day I'm somehow paying for Hunter S Thompson's sins. Head pains, metallic taste, burnt out lungs, just a general charred aspect to life. And ringing ears like I've been to a thrash metal show.

Felt pretty okay today. Didn't take any naps. Like an idiot checked work email and found out I'd been taken off a project "indefinitely" that I'd been looking forward to for a long time, and which is one of the main things motivating me to get back in the saddle. Started boiling inside. Instantly fired off about 4 pissed off texts and was reassured pretty much straight away that no, it's a misunderstanding - I'm still on the project. Sometimes you have to throw a strategic stink. I've been watching Larry Sanders. I know how this shit goes. The second your back is turned the fucking jackals come out.

My sister keeps texting me ancient newspaper clippings of distant ancestors who died of the the Spanish flu. i.e. 'This was your great-uncle Carl'. Thanks?

Another texting buddy warns of a 'spike on day 10' so i guess I've got that to look forward to.

Ordered pizza and watched Major League. Kids and wife all now asleep. The latter will surely wake at some point soon, at which point I am armed with what have become the most precious objects in my household bar none: 2x 500mg paracetemol tablets.

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My sister keeps texting me ancient newspaper clippings of distant ancestors who died of the the Spanish flu. i.e. 'This was your great-uncle Carl'. Thanks?

LOL

thank u ulysses

hugs tracer and thx for writing this up :)

thinking of u tracer & the whole hand family
i have avoided reading most firsthand accounts of this scourge aside from this one

Maybe the ringing ears is just coincidental arrival of tinnitus? There's a thread on that. Great choice with Larry Sanders. A show filled mostly with venal characters seems perfect.

I have mild tinnitus which I mostly don't notice unless I think about it, but sometimes when I have a cold it gets a lot worse/harder to ignore, and stays that way for a week or two after all the other symptoms have gone

obv the 'rona is not just a cold, but maybe something similar going on physiologically? not that I know what that is, exactly

thanks for your updates - glad you felt a bit better today and fought for your place on the project! hope you get better soon, and your kid too; it's good that he's mostly not been too bothered by symptoms so I hope it stays that way

this sounds proper shit, tracer. hope you and your family are on the mend soon

thanks for your reports tracer

you're welcome! thank you all for the good wishes. i hope this doesn't feel indulgent. obviously many have it worse than me so far.

It's not indulgent at all. We all really want to read this. Thank you for doing it.

^^ agreed, this is really helpful and (so far) relatively reassuring info.

hoping we hear from stet soon as well.

I take it you're in Australia Tracer Hand, so you wouldn't know CNN's Chris Cuomo. (If you're in, like, Hoboken, New Jersey, just pretend I didn't say that.) Similar to your posts, he's still going on and doing his show every night from his basement. First-hand accounts are enormously helpful to people like me who are living in perpetual fear of this.

tracer is an American who lives in London

according to my xls

The grand ILX tapestry is a mystery to me. I piece it together as best I can.

Trayce is in Australia.

my wife’s had an elevated temp since Friday and generally been feeling duff - felt a little worse today, called 111 and the doc said ‘yeah, probably a touch of the ‘rona, what are you gonna do 🤷‍♂️, call back if your symptoms get more severe’

if only there was some type of, like, test or something that could tell you if you had it

fingers x-ed for the best bg :(

oh shit, good luck to you both

Good luck Mr and Mrs Gazzara.

best to you BG.

Has Tracer posted anywhere recently?

good luck to your wife and of course yourself and the whole family! not fun to have when you have a young'un to attend to :(

(er, unless my .xlsx is faulty)

tracer posted here earlier today (phones and kids) and on one of my whatsapps

Good luck bg

yeah, we’ve got a 21-month-old - challenging enough keeping her entertained without the possibility of a visit from the ‘rona

my eyes have been super-itchy today and i’m knackered but that could just as easily be the start of hay fever season and being run down from being cooped up for three weeks

time will tell i guess - if my wife has been ill with it since the end of last week it’s been pretty mild so far, thankfully

This is a good thread. am wishing all the rona-touched a recovery and some solace thru what sounds like a lot of frightening misery.

Best to youse BG <3

Sorry to hear that bg, hope it fucks off asap!

i maledict...the virus

hay fever season is wretchedly bad here. I opened up the house yesterday during beautiful weather and I feel fatigued today

99% sure it's allergies and the quick bike ride I took yesterday around the block

Best to you all bg. And best to everyone fighting this right now.

hang in there bg.

Sorry I stopped my little narrative. It was starting to get repetitive. My sorry now is that for myself and my kids I think it’s firmly in the rear view mirror. Unfortunately the Lovely Emma B still has a fever, which is not ideal. Day 12 for her.

Emma Brexit?

best to you all obv :)

I tested negative yesterday morning, Friday. Never had any symptoms really worse than a stuffy nose. Maybe that's because I am up to date with my vaccines.

Well, then. Got back on Sunday from a work trip to Taipei. Started feeling sick on Tuesday. Just tested and if it isn't the novel coronavirus. Could've gotten it anywhere, I suppose. I was in a lot of crowds. And I masked in the airport but not on the plane.

This is my second bout and it feels a little worse than the first (which was in the omicron wave). That one was mostly a head cold with a little achiness; this time I've felt chills and fever, too. Hoping it doesn't last too much longer.

Commiserations! Two years ago I caught it on an overseas flight and had to cancel most of my holiday with best friend and instead spent five days isolating in a mid hotel room. I’d masked in transit and had a vaccine about a month before my flight so it felt really unfair.

Ugh, sorry to hear that

it's definitely not gone yet, just different

Yeah. I guess I'm lucky that I didn't develop symptoms until after I arrived home.

i always mask on planes, i was on a five hour flight next to a guy who was clearly sick and i'm sure the mask helped me avoid picking up anything. still haven't caught it, somehow. even considering planes and doctor's offices are the only places i mask now. it's probably a mix of good luck, vaccines, and being strategic about not lingering too close to people in public places.

Good luck, jaymc. I've flown internationally four times since 2023 and have returned unscathed, perhaps due to masking on planes and pure dumb luck.

I have always caught airplane colds for some reason. Grrr.

Yes, it's happened to me twice in the pre-COVID era. I could plot infection to symptoms from the moment I boarded to my flight home three days later.

I've caught a couple of colds this past spring/summer bumper season, which is unusual for me. Only symptom has been stuffy nose and feeling a bit off, which are super low bars, so haven't bothered testing. Fever is generally my minimum covid-test standard.

I have an ragged cough that's been going on for damn near a month, kinda wish it was covid because it would probably be over by now