Welp. I’ve got it. On Tuesday evening, I started feeling run down. My fever went out the roof, I had cold chills, body pain, the worst headache of my life, and my chest felt like an anvil was sitting on top of it. Not to mention a throat so sore, it hurt to swallow. I decided that if it got worse, I would go to the urgent care the next day, instead of going into work. I’m sure glad I did. Turns out, I have strep throat and Covid. I’m not going to lie, I thought that if I was going to get it, I would have already gotten it. I am around the public all the time. While I know that I need to be careful, I’m not the best at disinfecting and always wearing my mask when I should. Boy did that kick me in the ass.

The past several weeks I have been quarantined. Locked up in the apartment, just my dog and I. I thought that I would be getting a lot of work done. I could do a lot from the computer, I could catch up on shows and catch up on reports. Turns out, Covid absolutely wipes everything from your body. Any ounce of energy that you thought you were going to have, gone. Oh and the things that you thought you were going to get done, good luck. One day I was only awake 5 hours out of 24. This thing has total beat me down. My brain has been foggy. I have a non-stop headache for 2 weeks. I have body aches, shortness of breath. It’s been awful. The worst though is not being able to taste or smell anything.

Eating has been such a pain. I haven’t been able to enjoy anything for 2 weeks. Not even a hint of anything. I even tried the Jamaican remedy from TikTok. I chard the whole outside of an orange. I took the insides out, still hot and mushed them together with brown sugar. Eating a bowl of this is supposed to bring your taste back. Of course it didn’t work on me. Not tasting anything is the most unsatisfying things ever. (Well, one of them – HA)

I figured that I would want to write more since I had time at home, but every time that I started to, I got tired and rested. I guess that’s okay. I feel a drawing back to writing though. I have been going through some emotional things and things in my head and I’m looking forward to writing more often. 🙂 So get ready for that!

I’ll leave you with – be careful, wear a mask, you’re not invincible, and neither is any one else. This shit is no joke. 12 days in and I still am only functioning at about 20%.