Covid for Christmas

[Uncle Gump]

My wife brought that home for me... God I love her. She had been vaxed while I was going through radiation treatments last year. I never got vaxed. A couple days later she was fine... day after Christmas I ended up in ER. I never got admitted but got three breathing treatments... x-rayed and the CT scanned. I also had pneumonia and a touch of the stomach flu. They sent me home with meds and I was pretty sick for about 10 days. I feel like I'm in the clear now but still feel a bit weak. Everyday is better and it's nice enough outside today I feel like going out and enjoying it a little.

 

[Roert42]

Happened to us last year.

Brother got leave and flew home for a week. Got everyone sick, then flew back to his base.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Not sure how well you handled it... but it was rough for me.

I believe I was already sick with the flu before Covid hit me. I honestly soaked two shirts and two pair of underwear a day for 6 or 7 days. Half the time shivering the other half sweating.

 

[Blmpkn]

Glad you're alright

 

[sgtsandman]

I was like that last year after Christmas. Thankfully, it was no worse than a cold. Covid protocols still applied for good reason.

I’m glad you pulled through. It sounds like your immune system was already beat up from the previous flu.

The first time I got Covid (this last one was the second time), it was more like what you described. It was also before we knew what the hell it was. So I thought it was just a bad flu.

 

[Roert42]

The first time the wife an I had it, it was tough to say the least. We were both out for the count, two weeks. We did get vaccinated after that. Had it a few time afterwards and it was no more then a mild cold.

Although I personally know a few people that died from it. Vaccinated and not. So I’m glad you were able to muddle through.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I thought you had gotten suspiciously quiet...

I got covid last July and then got influenza A in early December. Personally for me the flu was worse/scarier but didn't last as long.

When I had Covid I could work from home, when I had the flu I was a shivering paperweight.

It is weird how it hits different people differently.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I honestly think I had the trifecta going. I also know that Covid hit me the Friday before Christmas. When I woke up... my sense of smell was gone. All I could smell was burnt everything bagels... my coffee even tasted like that. Then it was all down hill. So the flu... then Covid... which quickly lead to pneumonia. I was a train wreck.

 

[bilbo]

My wife also had it over the holidays. Ended up with pneumonia and at her worst she was in ICU and next step was the ventilator. They got a different anti-inflammatory in her and it helped. She recovered from the pneumonia really well, but still has a long road to go. We've been going for walks to exercise, she is now up to about 1/8 mile and when we get home she looks/sounds like she has run a 5k. That's better than a week ago, she could barely make it to the end of the driveway. One of the guys at work was out for a month recovering, and when he came back he had to drive into the plant to park next to the shop as he couldn't make the walk from the parking lot.

The sense of smell thing is weird. I routinely have a dulled sense of taste and smell due to allergies and stuffed sinuses, but it's never been flat out gone like it was with covid. I remember we were on a bike ride a couple months after and an old Galaxie drove by. I swear I could smell the exhaust and I was stoked because I hadn't smelled anything since covid. When I got back to the campsite I tested my schnozz with some white gas and could smell nothing. I think my brain just filled in the blanks for me as I used to love the smell of old car exhaust. It took me about 6 months before it actually started coming back, then I noticed everything smells different than I remember. Now all car exhaust smells disgusting to me. I also noticed the coffee they used at work literally smelled the same as shit to me.

The one nice thing about losing my sense of smell was not experiencing gross smells. I could eat bowls and bowls of chili and drink beer and become an unstoppable weapon, invincible to any return fire.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Glad your wife is doing better @bilbo

On the ride to ER... I was concerned about ICU and the ventilator. I sure didn't want any of that. I know how she feels... we went out just the other day... a trip to the farm store for some wood screws... then to the grocery store. After getting everything home and put away... I was worn out.

I have a follow up with my doctor on Wednesday.

 

[bilbo]

That's good to get out. They told us that it's going to suck but you have to do it. If you don't, the recovery just takes longer.

 

[fastpakr]

Glad you're released and starting the recovery process.

 

[rumblecloud]

I also noticed you were a little MIA around here.
Ann had the breathing treatment as well last Christmas when she got it.

Glad you're starting to feel better -- take slow - your immune system was already beat up.