Sick!

For the first time since January 2020 I am sick!

And I don’t like it.

Right now it’s a sore throat–scratchy and all gummed up, so I’m constantly clearing my throat, to no avail. I’m hoping this is the worst of it, and will be on the mend by tomorrow morning.

Here’s the sequence of events:

• A few days ago, Jeff gets sick and stays home
• Yesterday, and after he has largely recovered, he describes his symptoms, which make tiny alarms go off in my head
• I advise him to use one of the rapid response COVID-19 tests we have (five total). He does. It comes back positive.
• At this point, my throat is feeling very lightly scratchy, but I attribute it to singing loudly with the earphones on earlier in the day. I take the test. It comes back negative.
• My throat gets worse overnight and remains sore today. I start canceling outings and planning out five days of isolation.

I am tentatively planning on taking a second test tomorrow morning to see if my negative result persists. I strongly doubt the sore throat is a coincidence and unrelated to COVID-19, but you never know!

But yeah, being sick for the first time in over two years reminds me how much being sick bites. Bleah. Do not recommend. If it is COVID-19, I suppose I can take solace in escaping it for so long and being triple-vaccinated by the time it caught up with me.

On the plus side, I went out today to Hume Park and took pictures of birds, which was a nice distraction. I stayed clear of other people, feeling a strong Typhoid Mary vibe happening. Some shots are pretty decent, too. Woo!