Where it is now
Dec. 19th, 2020 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fbhjrSeveral folks have said things like "let us know how you’re doing" or similar.
So, this is my Covid progress report for day 7 for my wife and day 4 for me.
This is the CDC list of symptoms and where we sit with it. (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html)
Fever or chills- Not really. We’ve both been a bit warmer than normal, but nothing into the range that they say. In Fahrenheit, we both normally run in the 97 range. My wife got as high as 99, I’ve been in the 98 range. The various web sites say 100 is the worry point…
Cough- Oh yeah. We’ve both had this. My wife seems to have worse bouts of this than I do, but we’ve both got it.
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing- Not normally. But, I did a grocery run where you open your trunk and the put things in, and carrying those up the stairs was much harder than normal. Had to sit down and rest afterwards hard.
But, sitting around, not an issue.
Fatigue-Yeah, this is very much hit both of us. I’ve gone from sleeping at best 7 hours a night to sleeping more than 10 and taking naps too. My wife has been sleeping even more.
Muscle or body aches- Normally I can get leg cramps in the winter if my legs get cold, but this last week I’d been very night. My wife as said the same.
Headache- Yeah. Not a huge one, but there. My wife has been taking pain reliever for hers.
New loss of taste or smell- My wife has been hit by this one, but I have not yet.
Sore throat- We both seem to have missed this one.
Congestion or runny nose- Both of us have had a lot of this.
Nausea or vomiting- So far, we both been spared.
Diarrhea- This has hit me, but not my wife. When combined with the cough it can have very surprising and unpleasant effects.
I am surprised that someone from the state has been calling us regularly to make sure we’re OK. We are not a "live free or die" state, but I am surprised the sate is calling the thousands of people who have this regularly to check on them and offer help.
I do approve of this. I’m just surprised.
