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Yes, it's finally happened, despite being in the country, away from large groups of people and rarely going anywhere, your dear ditzy blonde has been stricken down in the PRIME of her life! WAAAAAAH!!!!!!


Yes people, I have been diagnosed Covid positive and am currently going through the myriad of symptoms that one afflicted with this nasty, NASTY creature goes through; and let me tell you, it SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

First off, HOW did I get it in the first place? Well, I have my dear, dear son to thank for that. It seems he most likely contracted it in school, brought it home, complained he was not feeling well, went to the doctor showing some of the symptoms, got tested, and the test came back positive. So he had it, greeeeat.

But a day after I had taken him, I was starting to feel sick with odd symptoms. When his test came back positive I want to get a rapid test done and it showed ME positive as well. (Cry) So the little brat gave it to me! SEE, affection sucks!!!!!! ;p

So yeah, I have it and have to quarantine for 10 days at least. Now I know SOME people, (anti-social gamers, cough, cough,), would think this would be a WONDERFUL thing. Stay away from the nasty, NASTY masses, self isolate, and play games all day, (especially FF14!) YAY!!!!!!

But let me tell you people, it is NOT yay, not at ALL!!!!!!!!!! Quarantining SUCKS, Really, really, REALLY sucks!

I can't go ANYWHERE! Can't exercise, (ok, MAYBE at night, but have not tried that yet), can't go shopping, can't get my 7-11 food, (This one REALLY hurts!), and can't basically get a change of scenery. And being around the SAME people, hour after hour, day after day, gets old FAST! It's nice when family goes to work and school so I have time to myself; now I do NOT have that! Booooooo!

Oh and the Symptoms, oh, yes, LETS talk about the wonderful, wonderful symptoms one experiences from this. Yeah, you can guess MY reaction to them! If you said, "they Suck!" you win a prize!

Ok, first off, yes, I AM vaccinated, so I am spared the worst of the crap. But as you see, despite being Vaccinated, you can STILL contract the virus! So be EXTRA vigilant people, wear masks and wash your hands!

First lets talk about the big thing covid is known for, loss of taste. Yes people, this IS a thing and it is......actually a GOOD thing!

"WTF" The haters of my blogs are saying as they secretly read this. "Annabel, you dumb Blonde, losing your taste is NOT good, everything tastes like nothing. But then again you are probably too much of a ditz to even notice."

And I say, "But WAIT, secret lovers of my writing, this IS a good thing!" And do you know why? For the exact reason you mention; nothing has any taste!

Ok, since everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING tastes bland and the same. It makes you eat LESS! And not only does it do this, it ALSO makes you NOT want to eat ANYTHING with high calories such as baked goods, sugar, chips, basically anything that will make you fat easily.

With no sense of taste there is NO benefit to eating stuff like that, you can't TASTE it people! So it's a WASTE to put those empty calories in you! A carrot or celery stick pretty much tastes the SAME as chips, donuts, or candy, so you might as well eat the healthy stuff. and forgo the bad stuff.

You also kind of don't feel like eating normally either, so your regular diet is down too.

I figure by the time this is all over, I am hoping to lose at least 10 pounds. if not more. Covid diet for the win!

Not so fun things though are the persistent headaches I have. These are the direct result of covid affecting the respiratory system and giving me some nasty sinus pain as well as a stuffy nose that does not seem to want to subside. (Though actually as I am writing this, my nose is clear for the moment, hope it persists!)
These sinus headaches have been pretty constant since my symptoms began and it makes it REALLY hard to do much of anything,. Since you know, concentrating puts more effort on the mind, making the head hurt even more. It's a vicious cycle..

Another annoying thing are the rapid temperature changes. One minute I can be really, really cold where nothing warms me up. Then before I know it my body goes into overdrive and I produce a TON of heat, so much in fact, I pretty much have to strip to try and cool down. Also I tend to get a minor fever too, not surprising that, you know, REALLY hot!

And of course there are the standard aches and pains associated with illness as well as the tiredness. Honestly, these aren't much different then the regular flu. In fact, except for the taste thing, a lot of this is pretty much like having a bad cold or a case of the flu that persists for a while.

I have not had any of the bad stuff, no serious fever, shortness of breath, serious weakness, etc. I am not fat, nor have any serious health conditions, so have nothing for the virus to latch onto to make my life really bad.

Oh, I forgot. One additional thing that is annoying are dental issues I seem to be having because of the virus. My teeth have really begun to hurt for some reason, I read that covid can affect teeth and weaken them so that they fall out. God, I hope that does not happen. I probably won't have it long enough for that, but one can still worry.

So that is my latest status and how I am dealing with this annoyance. I will be counting the days until the 25th where I will be officially cleared to venture out again. .God, this next week is sooooo going to be hell!

And do you know what is REALLY unfair? My son, who showed symptoms in the beginning, cleared up in ONE day, and even though he is positive, is now going through NOTHING! Even his sense of taste returned. It is sooooo unfair considering he got me into this. Bah! Privilege of youth I guess.

One last thing. my sister is also currently suffering from the virus along with a friend of hers, She is vaccinated, he is not. I am told her symptoms are mild, but his are sooooo bad that my sister is afraid he will have to go to the hospital if he continues to get worse. He refused to get vaccinated and is paying the price for it now. People think the vaccine is bad, but what the virus will do to you if it catches up with you is far, far worse.

You may think you are safe, but hey, I am in a small country town and barely go anywhere and I ended up getting it. (Ok, thanks to my son, but still......) Think of the risk of those in big suburbs and cities. All it takes is ONE person infected who refuses to stay at home and infects things around them, and you being in the wrong place at the wrong time........

Stay safe people.