covid, you asshole
Jul. 15th, 2024 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitShort version if you don't want to hear any more about Covid: I'm fine, absolutely nothing dangerous is happening, Covid is just super annoying.
So I know Covid isn't a cold. But I have such a mild case that it feels like a cold, and so I find myself expecting the trajectory of a cold and then Covid throws me a curveball.
I'm still coughing, but not as much or as badly as I was. My temp is normal a lot of the time now, and never more than a little elevated. My pulse oximeter readings are around 94-95, which is normal for my altitude.
However, I was not expecting congestion and sneezing to start on day 4-5 of symptoms. Colds don't do that!
This morning, though, I was feeling quite a lot better. Enough so that I had another round of guilt over not being at work. (I keep reminding myself that I'm off work to protect other people from Covid.)
And I thought to myself: I've really been lucky with this. I didn't even lose my sense of smell!
Well, of course I immediately starting losing my sense of smell. I tested just now with a bottle of vanilla extract and got no more than a hint of it.
This is day 6 of symptoms. I thought I was done! And plus now I'm worried about when/if I'll get my sense of smell back. Years ago I lost my sense of smell during a sinus infection; it was completely gone for a long time and then, as it started to recover, everything smelled/tasted foul for months. I don't want that again. And my perfumes! I miss them already.
To be clear: I realize how fortunate I am not to have had Covid before, and to get such a mild case now. But the randomness of the symptons--both their nature and their timing--is kind of frustrating. I tried to Google information on how Covid usually goes, but of course it's such a variable illness that no one can tell you that.
So I know Covid isn't a cold. But I have such a mild case that it feels like a cold, and so I find myself expecting the trajectory of a cold and then Covid throws me a curveball.
I'm still coughing, but not as much or as badly as I was. My temp is normal a lot of the time now, and never more than a little elevated. My pulse oximeter readings are around 94-95, which is normal for my altitude.
However, I was not expecting congestion and sneezing to start on day 4-5 of symptoms. Colds don't do that!
This morning, though, I was feeling quite a lot better. Enough so that I had another round of guilt over not being at work. (I keep reminding myself that I'm off work to protect other people from Covid.)
And I thought to myself: I've really been lucky with this. I didn't even lose my sense of smell!
Well, of course I immediately starting losing my sense of smell. I tested just now with a bottle of vanilla extract and got no more than a hint of it.
This is day 6 of symptoms. I thought I was done! And plus now I'm worried about when/if I'll get my sense of smell back. Years ago I lost my sense of smell during a sinus infection; it was completely gone for a long time and then, as it started to recover, everything smelled/tasted foul for months. I don't want that again. And my perfumes! I miss them already.
To be clear: I realize how fortunate I am not to have had Covid before, and to get such a mild case now. But the randomness of the symptons--both their nature and their timing--is kind of frustrating. I tried to Google information on how Covid usually goes, but of course it's such a variable illness that no one can tell you that.
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Date: 2024-07-15 09:42 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, I know several people including family members who lost their senses of smell for the duration of the infection and regained it without complications in short order. Otherwise, *hugs* What a miserable thing to have to deal with at all.