So background.
I am double jabbed and boosted.
I survived a hit and run when I was 16 resulting in me gaining brain and nerve damage.
Said brain and nerve damage is what saved me from a viral infection on my brain at the age of 42.
With out said damage I Wouldn't have realised there was something wrong and got to hospital early enough to save my own skin.
So at 43 what happened, well Our beloved government decided that all Covid restrictions were no longer a legal requirement in an ongoing pandemic.
Our government thought that it would be simpler to leave the mass's to get back to normal and act like the pandemic never happened. Sorry I mean decided to let the mass's take matters into their own hands and do as they decide.
Well for me that meant still wearing the face mask and warning everyone that while on our premises due to the lack of airflow or any ventilation within the shed that they should really wear masks.
If they don't feel well just cancel and we will not worry about it as it is better to be home than be in the building passing on the virus.
Yet they don't listen and as said I am masked I wash my hands regularly I am very careful as I know if I am off work things will go wrong. As they always do because my employers have no idea how to run the site.
Any ways, I have no idea when it happened but I caught Covid. (I will take an educated guess when it happened as I can calculate it down to the people through the door and the time it took me to get ill.) It was the "men's group" which was booked in on a day when we were closed by one of my boss's who while on site spend the entire night sat in an office at the other end of the building leaving me to deal with 21 gentlemen who were happier to be out and of course never bothered that they had "colds" and carried on being out in the world once more.
Masks work if all are using them. When you are heavily outnumbered there is a possibility it is going to get through. An social distancing with my job well that has never been really possible. All I can think is I had to drink, I put the mask back on and I didn't tighten it enough I shall go with that.
That cold that several of you had, well it happened to be Covid. An I know this as I thought oh I have a cold I will just take a test to make sure and Oh look it is positive. I'll just take a second test to make sure out of the newer kit an Oh it is also positive. Well that's 2 LFTs from 2 different kits both saying I have the virus. So we will trust the LFT report it and not bother with the PCR as that's just taking up room in the system.
Partner also tested, results so far for her have always been negative. When she is home I have my mask on and when she is not home I have had windows open and mask not on. Thankful for global warming right now as its mid march and it is unseasonably warm. (Global warming is BAD need to sort that)
Anyway I haven't reached day 5 that is tomorrow and I shall be testing for the first time since the positive result on Thursday morning.
So what has it been like, I have been expecting this flu like horror, an first day it did feel like I had flu, I had aches and cough my nose was running my throat was sore and I was hot then cold and everything in between and these included both hot and cold sweats!
Day two, Just a sore throat and random lightheadedness and loss of energy though that didn't last long and was back to strength very quickly.
Day Three. coughing and sneezing, sore throat gone, but much coughing and sneezing. An aches in joints and muscles.
Day four, well today. Kidney pain but only mild, sore throats back but I can eat and drink without pain so think it might be the vocal cords. An occasional drop in energy which yet again don't last.
Who knows what day 5 is going to bring?
It is rare I get the same symptoms one day after another. I am hoping that my test tomorrow comes back negative but I have a feeling it wont. Though I would like it too so I can get back to work on Tuesday as I feel I am letting down customers.
On top of this not being in work over a busy weekend has been hectic as I know all the stuff I am going to have to rebuild when I do get back in. As I have been called in twice well technically 3 times over the weekend to try and repair the site. The Saturday I went in once the site was closed double masked and gloved (Double Masked is my 2 micron resin casting mask with 5 layer carbon filter with an N95 under it) I would hate to pass this on to anyone.
Wow this is really long and boring.
So in short Covid SUCKS. It can be deadly it can be boring it can be awkward. Seriously every single person I have talked too has said different things. There really is no baseline Covid expectation. It has been so random and so different through all my research and talks with friends and people that I have been able to talk to about how it has been for them. While always remember the few that I didn't get to talk to about it, but that is the thing this virus has been so turbulent and destructive not all of us got out of it unscathed. Hell I haven't got out of it yet, this is the end of day 4. I don't know if day 5 will see me clear. I know my employers would like to see me clear so I can go back to making them money.
So yeah why I wrote this. Because like most things I try to get my thoughts down in this blog, about what's going on as well my brain is already damaged and it helps to run things into words. An while I was slowly starting to get my brain back after the viral thing from 2021 recovery was taking way too damn long but i was getting there catching Covid and being late to the party is just a thing that has happened and I wanted to get this all down before my brain wiped it out. I have enough learn to live with issues I'm not sure what comes next once I am through this. I regain energy quickly so if I do get worn out then It probably won't slow me down. My brain is clearly becoming better at getting things out as this is really long. This cough needs to do one.
An incase you were wondering, which you probably aren't, I am still going to wear my mask at work, I am still going to keep my distance as best I can, I am still going to clean my hands regularly and I am still going to make sure that I don't pass this on to anyone else.
But you have had it your now immune. Nope I am jabbed and boosted I have had it, I have about 6 weeks off immunity and guess what that is not good enough. Get used to the mask's people, they will reduce colds, flus and covid infections. Keep washing your hands once more will reduce cold flus and covid infections (also nora lets not forget about that horrid piece of work)
So yeah I am jabbed and boosted and I am not going to die but it is an inconvenience making sure I dont kill some one else by passing it on but that is all it is. An it is one I am willing to make. Every damn time.
