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

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.

Take good care of yourself, my friend! hugglez.jpg

man you have been through a lot recently. hope you make a speedy recovery and get back at it. loving the fernet smell test

socially-distant high fives from over here WmC. Good luck!

Best wishes WmC!

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.

congrats and sorry in that order

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

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.

39.6. This is it isn't it. No coughing tho

It could be a lot of things. Guess you’re quarantining regardless though! 🙃

Good luck louis. get tested if you can!

hope it's unrelated!!! <3

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!

Ah fuck. Get well soon and keep us posted, lj!

I didn't start coughing until I'd been rid of every other symptom for about five days. Get well soon.

Fever down, now just sinus pain. Think it might not be rona? Who even knows

I tested positive for flu A and B. Awaiting covid test results.

In quarantine for now. Second guessing some decisions, mostly sending youngest to in person pre-school.

Get well soon WmC and imago

ban isolate 1ou1s j4gg3r

good luck dude

OK yeah this really was just food poisoning, sorry to alarm!

Vmic, but glad you’re not dead

good luck usa lj

.. and update the London Restaurants thread.

by my own hand alas. the list of suspects is long though. a very ingredient-happy stir-fry

Extremely in character, this plus the long soup is confirmation enough never to eat anything you’ve cooked

it was tasty tbf

uh oh was it fried rice syndrome?

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

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).

can only be the jackfruit imo. it's good to have you back from the pre-rona lj

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)

gws sufjan!

@imago I hope you get better... at cooking haha owned

LJ, alert us at once if you lose your sense of smell!

I, my wife and both kids all have sore throats and feel a bit weak today, hm...

Allergies?

none of us have any allergies, no

Oh, sorry...

The simultaneity of the symptoms appearing suggests to me something environmental or else very contagious. Good luck.

:(

Keep us posted, CAL.

Kids always pick up shit the first weeks back at school... hope it’s that and not that

I mean.. it's day three or four and we all still basically feel ok, like if I was at work I would probably go in, so if we have it it's probably a mild case. Will try to get tested tomorrow.

Got an appointment for our 6-y-o son to get tested tomorrow morning. Thanks to whoever tipped Stet off about the next day's testing appointments going live around 8pm :D We're pretty sure it's not Covid but without a negative test he can't go back to school and I would like some peace it is so important for him to continue his education.

If the testing system is going to fall over with every outbreak of minor sniffles in schools then we're really in trouble. There's definitely something going round but it's probably not covid on the basis that so many children seem to have it.

Yeah, a few of his mates have had the sniffles but of course he’s the only one with a cough.

Didn’t your household have it earlier in the year? Surely he would have had a dose then.

I think nearly all the families I know with kids who've gone back to school have at least one person with bog standard cold symptoms (me included as of tonight - yay) so I'm not too worried.
It happened when they went back during lockdown too. I seem to catch every cold going and then some whereas the rest of my household is pretty immune.
Obv if there's high temps as well you'd better get tested.

Didn’t your household have it earlier in the year? Surely he would have had a dose then.

We’re pretty sure we did, though tests weren’t available at the time unless you were admitted to hospital. And while Stet had it badly and I had it mildly, F had chickenpox! Maybe he had Covid at the same time, I dunno. Whatever, it’s kind of irrelevant because if he went to school with a cough he’d be sent home for a test anyway. So the only routes for us now are (a) no school for 10 days or (b) get a negative result and straight back in. I guess I could have told the school he was home with a cold and not mentioned the cough, but I’m well honest innit.

No rona. But i now have a bacterial infection quite deep that may require surgery.