Home. Sick.
Sep. 24th, 2023 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWest Virginia / North Carolina Travelog #Ω
Back home - Sun, 24 Sep 2023. 10pm
It's a good news/bad news evening. Good news: We're home. Our flights were mostly on time, nothing went wrong, and we walked through our front door just before 9pm local time. We're already mostly unpacked and I've showered up. Getting to bed at a reasonable hour tonight will help me be ready for digging out from under the blizzard of work emails and Slack messages I've been scrupulously ignoring for the past 9 days while we've vacationed in West Virginia and North Carolina, with bits of Virginia, Tennessee, and even a brief foray into South Carolina mixed in.
Now for the bad news: I'm sick. I was up half the night last night (basically from about 3am Eastern onward) with what I at first thought was a food-related sickness because I had some stomach heaves. By mid morning it became clearer it was something else: a head cold. I've had a stuffy, runny nose and occasional sneezing all day since then. Plus now I seem to have a bit of chest congestion.
Could this be Covid? That was one of my first thoughts once I recognized I had cold-like symptoms. Sadly part of The New Normal is that whenever you have cold symptoms you need to test for Covid. I just finished my test— 30 seconds of painful swabbing followed by 15 minutes of waiting to see if a second pink line appears— and I'm negative. Whew; it's only a cold. Or maybe a flu. But for now, at least, I remain a Covid virgin.
Back home - Sun, 24 Sep 2023. 10pm
It's a good news/bad news evening. Good news: We're home. Our flights were mostly on time, nothing went wrong, and we walked through our front door just before 9pm local time. We're already mostly unpacked and I've showered up. Getting to bed at a reasonable hour tonight will help me be ready for digging out from under the blizzard of work emails and Slack messages I've been scrupulously ignoring for the past 9 days while we've vacationed in West Virginia and North Carolina, with bits of Virginia, Tennessee, and even a brief foray into South Carolina mixed in.
Now for the bad news: I'm sick. I was up half the night last night (basically from about 3am Eastern onward) with what I at first thought was a food-related sickness because I had some stomach heaves. By mid morning it became clearer it was something else: a head cold. I've had a stuffy, runny nose and occasional sneezing all day since then. Plus now I seem to have a bit of chest congestion.
Could this be Covid? That was one of my first thoughts once I recognized I had cold-like symptoms. Sadly part of The New Normal is that whenever you have cold symptoms you need to test for Covid. I just finished my test— 30 seconds of painful swabbing followed by 15 minutes of waiting to see if a second pink line appears— and I'm negative. Whew; it's only a cold. Or maybe a flu. But for now, at least, I remain a Covid virgin.
