This is a quick note. I’m so delighted to have actually lived through this experience! The heart-stopping moment of positivity brought back to my mind the time when as a child I decided to find out if it was true that iguanas lived in caves under the overspill cliff of our dam in Zululand. It was true. I’d never realized how fast I could run until I confronted two of them |
Next day I was feeling worse. Stuffed up nose, no appetite. No coffee. Just water. Another test. Negative. Thought to myself it must be just a cold. I’d almost forgotten about that possibility
The third test proved to be rapidly positive. Apparently sometimes it takes a while for enough antigen to develop that can be measured. Well, that was disturbing. Notify everyone. Cancel appointments. Isolate.
Two days now, Bob and I’ve been wearing masks in the house. I’ve been so pleased with his ability to manage the food end of things. Not that I’ve been managing to eat much. Just water and chicken broth. Odd thing about that, instead of supplying nourishment to my poor, tired body, it seems to be dripping straight out of my nose, like a leaking tap! Truly disgusting. I do blow as well of course. Went from one box of tissues to a roll of paper toweling, and now I’m back on another box of tissues. |
May 4
We found a great App. It’s free, called Ava, and it works well with this situation. You just drag out your phone, punch the little microphone at the bottom of the app, and talk. Your speech immediately shows up on the phone screen. Or iPad.
I’m hoping very much that Bob doesn’t get this awful thing. It’s not just like a cold or the flu. No, it has its own unique flavour, and you don’t want it. I’m really convinced it was a good idea to be fully vaccinated, but then, I’m old school about that. We all used to get vaccinated at the drop of a hat. We just trusted it was the way to go.
I still feel proud that we did our share to eliminate polio and smallpox. Just vaccinations did it. But I’m told things are much more complicated now. Certainly the politics are. I’m still in the uncharted waters of this new pandemic. I’m still nose stuffed. I still got a positive test.
But was it lighter than it would have been if I was unvaccinated? Guess that’s something we’ll never know.
Sending you all my best thoughts as I continue isolating here on the Sunshine Coast of BC. The days are longer. Sunnier too. Life is good. Even when you test positive.