Paxlovid is the perfect gift for today’s COVID couple.
Always a late bloomer, I’ve finally joined the COVID Club, one I never really wanted membership in.
And it’s a full house of COVID19. Nothing says togetherness like quarantining with my also positive husband. There are now His and Hers Paxlovid boxes sitting on our kitchen table.
Earlier last week a friend who had stayed at my home, tested positive for the virus.
Hearing this, I went scurrying looking for my cartons of at-home COVID tests courtesy of Uncle Sam. Opening up the packages, I found to my dismay they had expired. Once I finally got a new batch from the pharmacy and could test myself I was relieved but not surprised to find it was negative. After all, I’ve been so vigilant.
But the following day beset with chills, a cough, and the knowledge that these rapid home tests could sometimes be unreliable I scheduled a more reliable PCR test at a lab.
Meanwhile, Hersh had also been exposed and was becoming quite sick. I was concerned even if he couldn’t be.
That Saturday morning along with our usual bagel and lox set out on the kitchen table was an at-home testing kit. I urged Hersh to take it and within minutes the magical pink line indicating positive became apparent.
My heart sank.
Swabbing myself, I did another test which also came up pink. Moments later an email with the results of the PCR came in sealing the deal.
I was COVID-positive.
Truth be told there is absolutely nothing positive about COVID-19.
Although grateful to have been vaxxed to the max, I’ve been hit hard, and COVID packs a powerful punch. It is flu on steroids. Physically exhausting, the characteristic brain fog is no joke. Writing these 300 hundred words has been an effort, that has taken me hours to write.
COVID has lived up to its nasty reputation and needs to be taken seriously.
Still.
Don’t stop being careful. Don’t stop being vigilant.
COVID-19 stops you in your tracks. It hasn’t stopped and neither should your diligence.
Envisioning The American Dream 
your comment and your disgusting picture sicken me. Gay is not an option. It is an abomination to God.
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Your comment is totally irrelevant to anything being discussed here.
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I hit the like button, but not for what you are going through Sally.
Almost everyone I am close to, children, grandchildren, in-laws got Covid. My wife and I haven’t got it yet.
Covid is far from over.
Pierre
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Nearly everyone I know has had it, especially within the past 10 months and it seems weekly there is someone new contracting it. The effects run the gamut from a bad cold to really being knocked off your feet and unfortunately Im in the latter category but grateful for the Paxlovid that will shorten the bout.
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I’m sorry that you and your husband are dealing with the effects of Covid Sally, but the presence of Paxlovid, vaccines and less deadly variants, that were absent in 2020, make current infections a little easier to deal with. When I had Covid last May, I opted to get through it without Paxlovid, fearing the bounce back infection that Biden experienced. While I did test negative after only 7 days, I continued to feel lethargic for a couple of weeks afterward. And having had Covid once, I have no wish to get infected again. Covid is still all around us, constantly mutating to beat our best defenses. We must remain vigilant even though as a society, we’d like to move past this. As has often been said, it is the virus, not people, who will determine when Covid is finished!
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I certainly feel fortunate to have contracted COVID now after being fully vaxxed and with Paxlovid to help things along. That said, while some seem to come down with what amounts to a bad cold, I’ve been hit pretty hard, but i am confident it will pass in time. Patience is required, which is not always easy to have. We really have to remain very vigilant.
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I had the “flu on steroids” for three weeks in November Sally. Wasn’t much fun after being double vaxed with a booster. Using the self-test for the first time I sneezed so hard the thing blew out of my nose across the living room. At the same time a flu was circulating and in some case school classes were cancelled. After having a proper test done it came up negative. One more jab of the flu vaccine and I was told to stay home for a week. No problem said I so exhausted I slept. Still had a runny nose, sneezing, coughing with my curious kitty. When she sneezed a week later I broke out laughing. Stay warm, sleep and take something to relieve and aches.
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Sorry you had such a tough time this past November. It really can take a lot out of you. There really isn’t much for me to do but wait it out at this point. It is still lingering.
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Reblogged this on Journalism as Art and commented:
COVID is still here. The following day beset with chills, a cough, and the knowledge that these rapid home tests could sometimes be unreliable I scheduled a more reliable PCR test at a lab.
Meanwhile, Hersh had also been exposed and was becoming quite sick. I was concerned even if he couldn’t be.
That Saturday morning along with our usual bagel and lox set out on the kitchen table was an at-home testing kit. I urged Hersh to take it and within minutes the magical pink line indicating positive became apparent.
My heart sank.
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Thanks for the reblogg
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My husband came down with it Christmas Day and I showed symptoms 2 days later. Causes severe tiredness. Can totally understand how you felt while writing this blog!
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I hope you both have made a full recovery. The brain fog is for me the most disabling and distressing and from what I’ve learned from others it can go on for quite some time.
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