Anyone here have COVID?

[Platapus]

I’ll start

On 25 Feb, I started with the most minor of coughs. Barely annoying. On 26 Feb, I received my first COVID vaccination. Upon returning to my office, I was informed that we were shutting down due to a possible COVID exposure. My Director is taking this very seriously. During that weekend, I was informed that several members of my office had tested positive for COVID. On Tuesday, 2 March, I also was tested positive for COVID, but the only symptom I had was this minor cough. I was able to work (TW) that week, with no problems.

The following week, my primary COVID symptom kicked in. Profound Fatigue. For those who have never been inflicted with Profound Fatigue, it can be difficult to imagine how it is. Basically, it is an inability to perform any type of voluntarily action. I had experienced short periods of Profound Fatigue when I had had the flu, but for COVID, I experienced two full weeks of this.

For example, one day, I spent 20 hours straight laying in the same position. Normally, I can’t spend more than 6 hours in bed before things starting to hurt.

Unfortunately, one of the results of Profound Fatigue is that you can’t eat. You want to eat, but simply do not have the energy to physically eat. One time, I was feeling very hungry. I was sitting on my couch with a container of protein drink in front of me. All I had to do was reach out and open the container and drink. That simple operation took over 20 minutes. This type of debilitating fatigue starts a vicious cycle of not eating, thereby causing more weakness compounded by the weakness of COVID. Not good.

Walking the dog was an exhausting experience. I was slowly walking down to the end of our block like I was 100 years old. To the end of the block and back was all I could manage and that resulted in collapsing on the couch for about an hour just getting by breathing under control.
I consider myself pretty lucky in that I only had a minor case and the only real symptom was the Profound Fatigue.

Then around 11 March, it ended. The fatigue stopped as quickly as it came. I am still feeling tired and weak, but 100% better. I am on antibiotics for the lingering cough and that’s almost gone.



I hope to get back to work on 22 March when my office opens up again.



This was, by far, not the worst illness I had experienced. But it was pretty un-fun.

I go in for my second COVID vaccination tomorrow and on Thursday I have another COVID test.

Anyone else experience the fun of COVID?