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

love to emma b and glad to hear most of you are in better skies!

Best wishes to you and yours bg

And to your Emma b, TH

All best wishes to the bgs, and to everyone else who is currently wrestling with the bug.

thanks everyone

mrs g still has a bit of a temp and is knackered today, started a bit of a cough tonight - a bit short of breath when going up stairs and stuff

i’m knackered but also been up since 6:30 looking after our wee girl and been tense all day worrying about mrs g

just wish there was a way to get tested and then we’d at least know wtf was going on

just wish there was a way to get tested and then we’d at least know wtf was going on

this. the strain of not knowing if one's symptoms are from 'rona or just part of a familiar disease or allergy is emotionally exhausting. good luck to you and yours, bg.

Best of luck to ye both, and to Tracer’s Emma.

Thanks for the wishes everyone, I don't know how I missed this.

It's been a rough and horrible couple of weeks (now on day 20), and I guess I count as a "moderate" case. Lots of similarity with what TH describes -- except I thankfully didn't get fever, which is apparently the case in anywhere between 10 and 30% of cases depending who you ask.

What I have had: incredible fatigue, like can't-leave-bed, can't-even-text fatigue. Two horrible new kinds of chest pain: one a burning all down my windpipe like it has been burned by peppers gone down the wrong way, the other a tight band all around. Lots of heart burn. A weird, dirty, metallic taste in my mouth that made me continually brush my teeth. The tinnitus thing, yep.

I didn't ever get a pneumonia, or even a very bad cough, but my breathing was definitely affected and I got short of air – knocked about 200 off my usual peak flow reading. Blowing up balloons helped.

It also did weird stuff to my heart: my resting heart rate dropped to 55bpm one night, which is about 20-25bpm lower than usual. Another night it cranked to 100bpm.

It's just a really ... weird and new thing, this – it's not like any illness I've had before. I wasn't in much doubt that it was CV, just because the symptoms were so different to flus or colds I've had before.

I think it will be a lot less scary when there's more cultural awareness of it, and we know what to be worried about and what can safely be ignored. Right now, it's as if you're the first person to ever get chicken pox, and so with every new thing you're like "OH MY GOD THE SPOTS ARE WEEPING NOW IS THIS TIME TO CALL 999?"

Also, it's true about the recovery/relapse thing. 4 times I've thought "ah, finally better" and the next day it has socked me again. And it can change really quickly: one hour you're OK, the next you're very Not OK. Which is exceptionally cruel in the more serious cases, I've read, because you think the patient's recovering and then they suddenly get worse. I'm not sure I'm fully out of it yet, but each recovery has been better than the last.

jesus

glad to get a check in, fingers crossed the worst of its over for you

god, that is horrible, sorry you're going through that

Fucking hell, thanks for checking in stet, and hope the worst is over. You are otm re newness; in like five years it’ll be routine and as well known as the flu, but now it’s new and it’s not exactly something you know how to deal with.

Oof stet, that sounds horrible. Hope you're out of the woods soon

wow stet, that sounds awful, though I'm glad you didn't get the pneumonia. fingers crossed you're on the mend now

tbh your description sounds pretty bad even if one knows what to expect, but yes, knowing when to seek help and when to wait it out will be an advantage

best wishes to you, and to mrs gaz (and biz gaz also), and Tracer's Emma too

Sorry to hear stet; get better soon!

jeez stet that sounds rough - glad you’re finally on the mend

That's a vivid account. I still find it so hard to make sense of this thing.

Yes stet, what others said. Sounds awful, hope full recovery comes soon.

christ alive stet. best wishes.

i hope you get well soon, stet. it sounds like a truly horrible illness. best wishes to tracer and emma b too, and to bg and mrs g.

Get well soon Stet, that's a very real and rough account.

It sounds like you're already on the way out of this Stet but get well soon. The very prospect of that chest pain + heart thing is absolutely terrifying.

i only read this thread last night, hope everybody feels much better soon

Get well soon Stet, v glad you are pulling through. Have read quite a few descriptions of covid but nothing quite matching yours.

Glad you're getting through this, stet, and best wishes to the Hand and Gazzara households.

Sending you so much love, stet.

Definitely. Please be well, all of you.

Of course first and foremost, get well, all of you. But I'm curious if any of you have any idea how you caught it, where you caught it, or who you caught it from?

Christ stet, that’s rough. Get well soon.

xp is that really the important thing to be asking here

I don't know, I guess not?

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I'm interested too! everyone's trying to minimise their risk, it'd be good to know what the riskiest activities are, although we won't know for sure of course.

if i were being asked that question, i would probably not answer

Where they got it is immaterial to the fact they’re sick with it, and what if they weren’t doing anything “risky”?

agreed that it's a shitty question on this thread, c'mon Josh

Oh god, I didn't read it like that at all, not as a judgment. I was expecting more like 'it must've been from the supermarket, which we all need to do' or 'from this one guy in the office a week ago who later turned out to have it'. Obv if they were having nightly COVID parties then yeah I might judge a little but I'm assuming no judgment was intended?

I guess it's selfish to ask though, and I am a shitty person for being curious.

hope you feel better soon, stet, and thanks for taking the time to share how it's been for you.

Ditto--I did not read that as a mean question at all, and I don't think Josh was exactly fishing for names. All three ILX'ers have been very candid, when able to post, about what they've been going through. I think so many of us are mystified and terrified by how this thing gets transmitted. I'm guessing the question was meant more as a general at-work vs. at-the-supermarket kind of thing. I read yesterday about a guy in Ontario who's 30, perfectly healthy, and doing everything he was supposed to be doing, and thinks he got it because he stopped for five minutes to talk to a friend while jogging, maintaining the six-foot rule. Those kinds of stories are baffling.

Candid, and extremely helpful.

yeah we're all paranoid and scared to varying degrees, i am also always curious about that when i hear about someone getting it, bc i am terrified of getting it and curious if they could have gotten it in a way that i am also vulnerable to. if ppl dont want to share thats fine but its not a grossly out of bounds Q imo. in any event it might be moot, after a certain point (perhaps we're there already) itll basically be impossible to guess how anyone got it anyhow.

thinks he got it because he stopped for five minutes to talk to a friend while jogging

Jogging >:(

(xpost) That's more or less what I said to a friend two weeks ago who was fighting pneumonia, thought he probably he had it (he didn't), and was worried he might have passed it on at work: that worrying about that is pointless, because, even two weeks ago, everything was at a point where anyone could have gotten it anywhere. So yeah, even trying to answer that question is probably moot. It's still something that's on my mind anyway every time I read stories like that Ontario guy.

ftr I was thinking about asking what josh asked myself. I'm just selfishly curious to hear if anyone who got it can't trace it a face to face interaction, because there's still so much uncertainty over whether it can be transmitted through surfaces or hang around the air.

no judgment because so many people are still being forced or highly pressured to break social distancing for their jobs

Or other reasons that aren't like, going to an illegal kegger

I get that it's a delicate question for some but fwiw please feel free to ask me where I think I got it should I start posting to this thread from the other side.

I wasn't intending to be judgmental at all. I've just found every story from anyone unfortunate enough to catch this as useful and illuminating as they've been horrifying and scary, and thought it would be further helpful to learn if someone, say, had stayed home isolated for 14 days and still somehow got it, or went to the store only once with mask and gloves and got it, or had a partner with very mild unconcerning symptoms who nonetheless passed on a more serious case, and so on.

No yeah same. I'm doing my best, but we're going to have to go to a couple of stores tomorrow and it starts all over again. Also at this point going to the home improvement store for some construction stuff is getting to be a matter of my partner's mental health. He's not capable of sitting still and is also going through something incredibly stressful in his non-virus-related life right now, and him going off to do projects is the only way we don't both melt down, but it's hard to reconcile that with "Is it worth risking our lives?"

idk how anyone would know how they contracted it? it can be up to two weeks before you show symptoms

It's mere speculation, which doesn't make it any less interesting. But that's just me.