– you wake abruptly from sleep every 8 minutes because you seem to have stopped breathing
– your resting heart rate is 114 and climbing.
– you feel very hot. Your usual layers of sweaters and jackets worn to combat the facility a/c begin coming off.
– the orange in your lunch doesnt taste sweet. Your lemonade doesnt taste sweet or sour.
– you test and it is negative. You return to work.
– brain fog arrives.
– your stomach begins hurting. Nausea sets in.
– you become overwhelmingly tired. You have to pull the car over and sleep twice on the way home. Every few minutes you wake startled to gasp for air. Resting heart rate is 119. O2 sat has dropped from 98 to 94.
– limbs begin tingling. Hot and cold flashes follow.
– your next meal has absolutely no flavor. The carrots are strangely bitter and every other thing on the plate tastes like air, like you are chewing but there is nothing in your mouth at all.
– violent stomach upset followed by waves of nausea.
– everything is freezing. You turn the heater up irrationally high.
– full body joint pain.
– the stinky dogs no longer smell stinky. Your stinky shoes no longer smell stinky. The salmon packet in the trash no longer smells fishy. toothpaste no longer smells minty.
– the shits begin.
– you feel like you cant catch your breath.
– your throat is sore.
– once you are empty you sit in a chair and collect yourself for an hour before going to unload the car and then commence the evening chores on the homestead because congratulations, you have identified that you are under the weather and should probably steer clear of others when avoidable but the chores on the homestead still have to be done. You do not get a sick day just because you feel isolationey. You get a pass to rest for an hour and then a headlamp to combat the darkness that has fallen while you were resting. Best get started because everything that usually takes 5 minutes will now take 10 and that watering can that normally feels moderately heavy is now a lead anvil.
This concludes our tour of a healthcare practitioner’s sick day. Thank you for coming. Drive safely. Stay healthy. Have a good night.
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….glad to see another post from you, but “clicking the “like” star for this one……just wouldn’t be right.
If whatever it is hasn’t run its course yet, hopefully it soon will. Being sick….sucks…and it’s got to be worse when the chores can’t be neglected.
From january to the end of march there’s been a development that means i am busier than usual at work and for now all the things i usually do have fallen to the wayside. Then i must renew three licenses/certifications, pay taxes, and things should return to my regular amount of free time. I hope to make some more posts then. Animals have been rehomed. Structures have been remodeled. The well busted again. Lots of stuff to update on but i just cant do it justice until probably april. As for being sick, got 2000 mg vitamin c and elderberry tea on board, some sleep, and feeling a bit more human. Hopefully today is a better day.