The Rona Got Me!

Yikes. What a miserable week that was. The Rona finally caught up to me. Happy to say I'm out the other end of it and feeling my old friskiness returning!

I'm pretty sure I caught it while travelling. I had to go away for 2 nights to the states on a very stupid and totally avoidable business trip (but not optional for me). Five days later (last Monday night) feeling mild symptoms. Got worse overnight. Tested myself with a rapid antigen Tuesday morning and popped positive. David was out so I texted him to let him know. Worked most of the day from home and called it quits at around 3pm and went to bed. I set up in the guest room where I could quarantine myself a bit better and went to sleep.

That night was the worst. Splitting headache and terrible body aches. I did a lot of extra strength acitaminophen and was in and out of a hot bath, both of which eased things.

Wednesday was no picnic either but it felt like it was improving though I still had body aches and was super, super tired. At no point did I have a temperature.

Every day I was sick I forced myself to dress and go out for a walk regardless of how I felt. I think being bedridden often makes you sicker.

I thought it was going to be done by Thursday morning, but it just entered a new phase where I got one of the nastier sore throats of my life (had similar once before). So bad it was super painful to swallow. But I forced myself through the pain to drink water to keep hydrated. Still had mild headache, body aches, and tiredness as well. Plus started up with a cough and phlegmy throat. Daddy always told me to cough it up and spit it out to get it out of my system, so I did that into a spitty cup. Filled a full 8oz cup every couple of hours (gross!).

David went out to the pharmacy and got me a variety of sore throat medecines. Lozenges were lemony-tasty but pretty short-lived on the sore throat relief. The spray down the throat did a better job of numbing it, but only gave about 5 minutes of real relief. The best was the extra strength Benylin syrup. So disgusting tasting I almost cried every time I went for a dose (which was two teaspoon fulls). It has this menthol which really coated and numbed my throat for a good half hour which allowed me to rehydrate entire cups at once. Plus it has a cough expectorant, guaifenesin, which seemed to loosen up the phlegm and made it less painful and easier to cough it up, which was really beneficial.

Friday morning was a bit better, but Thursday night I barely got any sleep so I was super sleepy all day.

Friday evening I was finally starting to feel better. Mild sore throat, body aches were gone, headache was gone, mild occasional cough, much less phlegm. I actually felt hungry for the first time since Tuesday and David ordered us my favourite pizza pie. I only had one slice. It tasted great, but I did not want to overdo it. I had lost 5 pounds from the not eating and the dehydration along the way.

Friday night I got some decent sleep. Went to bed pretty early and woke up at 3am. Felt like I now had more of a head cold. Sinus stuff. Took more Benylin (yuck!) and felt better and went back to sleep.

Woke up this morning (Saturday) feeling very much myself again. Actually got dressed and started doing productive things.

While I was ill and in bed I tried to distract myself by making up scenarios in my head for my new book, but that was pointless. I had zero interest in anything kinky at all. It was all I could do to even hit publish on my blog comments, much less reply. It was the first time since forever that I had no interest in kink at all. That was scary!

This morning I finally felt well enough to respond to long languishing comments (sorry!). As I did I started feeling that familiar tingling in miss puss puss. She's back! Yay! Yay! Hurray!

David was great throughout my illness. I kept telling him to keep his distance but he ignored. He tucked me in and gave me kisses and cuddles. He rubbed my back and my bum to make me feel better. I love having my bum rubbed. Even when there was absolutely zero kinky/sexual interest, I still loved having my bare bum rubbed by him. He got me anything and everything I wanted (which was not much, I admit). Fingers crossed, he's still healthy as a horse!

So, that was my experience with the Rona so far. The tiredness is gone and the cold symptoms are fading fast.

It's likely the Omicron BA2 that I caught, as it's going around a lot. If this is the mild one, thank goodness I did not experience the Delta! This one was on par with the worst cold/flu I got as an adult (though not worse). I can easily see that if an old, or weak, or medically compromised person were to get what I got, it could be a really bad outcome. I also understand that if you're overweight, with a lot of excess fat cells, your own immune system can overreact and cause real damage. I keep myself in good shape, am not that old, have been taking supplements for my immune system, and have a positive outlook, so I think I was well prepared.

Throughout, it was in the back of my mind that it could get into my lungs and damage them and potentially kill me. But objectively, the infection fatality rate for people my age has been estimated to be around 0.008% (reference). To put that in perspective, put 12,500 people in a big stadium with me all around my age (some sickly, some fat, whatever), give them all Omicron, ONE of us will die of it. I felt I had a pretty good chance of coming out ok.

If you're older or otherwise compromised, please stay extra vigilant until this things blows over!