Mild so far.
I had been having low-grade flu-ey symptoms since Wednesday the 19th, the day after my mom died. Achiness, mild but not severe diarrhea, temp running about .5 to 1 degree higher than mine usually does. I just thought I was crashing after running on adrenaline since Tuesday the 11th when Mom first went to the ER.
By yesterday, day 6 of just feeling run down as hell, I felt something was up. Called my primary care doc this morning and said "I know I got tested Monday the 17th, but here's the situation. Is another test indicated?" They had me come in and did another rapid-results test, which came back positive this time. My wife and daughter are both feeling fine physically. I've been prescribed a z-pack and my doc said that all 3 of us need to start on big doses of C, D3 and zinc.
I let my sister and brother know, since I was around them and other family Saturday at Mom's burial. Let my boss at the bar know; obviously I'm not going to sling ethanol for a while.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
what a heavy time WmC, so sorry
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
That's terrible on top of everything else. Best wishes, WmC.
― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Be well bro
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear this, WmC.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
Stay strong, WmC!
― pomentiful (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
best wishes
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Best wishes, WmC
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
get well soon, WmC
― stet, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Thanks everyone, if current symptoms are the worst of it, everything will be peachy. We've got loads of friends who will do grocery and pharmacy runs for us.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
have you been tested yet?
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
sorry, just realised there were more posts than I realised to read back through
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Hope this is the worst of the symptoms for you WmC and that the family manages to dodge it
― オニモ (onimo), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
Sorry to hear WmC, hope it fucks off soon.
― beef stannin’ (gyac), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
sending you posi vibes WmC
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
Good luck WmC, and condolences. Sorry you're having such a grim time of it right now.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
omg WmC! your attitude is admirable and impressive under the circumstances -- get well soon!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
Thank you all, so so much. The good vibes I've gotten here and on Faceache have been wonderful and buoying.
I've been paying close attention to my symptoms just 'cause shit is interesting. I opened my bottle of Fernet-Branca and took a big whiff and my sense of smell may be a little muted? I had some ham, and homemade bread with a lot of mustard last night for dinner and that was a little muted too. Not entirely gone though.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
Take good care of yourself, my friend! hugglez.jpg
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
man you have been through a lot recently. hope you make a speedy recovery and get back at it. loving the fernet smell test
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
socially-distant high fives from over here WmC. Good luck!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
Best wishes WmC!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 27 August 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
Post-viral fatigue can fuck right off. Strangest sensory symptom is everything is too salty. Otherwise I'm on a steady climb out of it.
― Scampos Runamuck (WmC), Monday, 31 August 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
congrats and sorry in that order
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 31 August 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
wmc, i’m so sorry you have lost your mom and now have to go through this as well. my deepest condolences and i hope you recover quickly and well. kia kaha<3
― estela, Monday, 31 August 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
I tested positive for antibodies a second time, and got a little more clarification on those results from the Red Cross. The first time I tested positive was when I donated in mid-June. Yesterday I received a (snail mail) letter not just reaffirming that my results were reactive, but stating that they actually performed additional antibody testing on my blood donation "to get a better understanding of the reactive result of the initial test," and I came up positive again, meaning "you most probably were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 and had a past infection." After the mandatory wait I donated blood again just 10 days ago, so called up the Red Cross to find out my even more recent results, and they said I tested positive once again (meaning, a third time). There's a backlog (no surprise) on the results of that secondary additional antibody test (whatever it is; it will potentially affirm my fourth positive result), but in the meantime I've now been signed up for a monthly study to see how long my antibodies last and in what numbers.
Just as a reminder, to show how weird and random this illness is, assuming now that I did have covid it was back in the second week of March, and my only symptoms were a loss of smell and taste and general fatigue. And that all passed after maybe 4 or 5 days. No one else in my family got sick following me, afaict, though each of my kids had a day or so of fever and otherwise generic symptoms a few days before my own mild symptoms. And one of them, fwiw, much later tested negative for antibodies, as did my wife.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
39.6. This is it isn't it. No coughing tho
― imago, Monday, 14 September 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
It could be a lot of things. Guess you’re quarantining regardless though! 🙃Good luck louis. get tested if you can!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
hope it's unrelated!!! <3
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
Whatever it is, stay home and take care of yourself. Do get tested if you can. It will help guide the rest of your actions to know instead of guess. Good luck and get well soon!
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
Ah fuck. Get well soon and keep us posted, lj!
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 September 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
I didn't start coughing until I'd been rid of every other symptom for about five days. Get well soon.
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
Fever down, now just sinus pain. Think it might not be rona? Who even knows
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
I tested positive for flu A and B. Awaiting covid test results.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
In quarantine for now. Second guessing some decisions, mostly sending youngest to in person pre-school.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Get well soon WmC and imago
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
ban isolate 1ou1s j4gg3r
good luck dude
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
OK yeah this really was just food poisoning, sorry to alarm!
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
Vmic, but glad you’re not dead
― scampo italiano (gyac), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
good luck usa lj
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
.. and update the London Restaurants thread.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
by my own hand alas. the list of suspects is long though. a very ingredient-happy stir-fry
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
Extremely in character, this plus the long soup is confirmation enough never to eat anything you’ve cooked
― scampo italiano (gyac), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
it was tasty tbf
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
uh oh was it fried rice syndrome?
― contorted filbert (harbl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
it was either the fish, the pak choi, the tomatoes or the jackfruit, and whatever it was, it got me up to nearly 40 celsius
― imago, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
anyway i've been very indulgent and will yield the floor to people who actually have the rona
Happy to hear it (well, not that you have food poisoning, but y’know).
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
can only be the jackfruit imo. it's good to have you back from the pre-rona lj
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
good luck & get well soon, LJ and Sufjan & family!
glad you don't have the 'rona, LJ; hope you don't have the 'rona, Sufjan (and youngest, and others)
― scampus unrest (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link