I am sure you are probably tired of hearing about Covid. We have been living with it for the past nearly three years. From all the weird symptoms and per-cautions, this is one virus that can really kick the butt out of someone. The symptoms can be long lasting and they can can even be nothing at all. That being said, Covid finally hit my own house this summer and might I add it absolutely SUCKED. I wouldn’t want it to happen again and I certainly would not want it to show up again for whatever reason.

Now you may be wondering, how did we even get it? As you can assume my stance on things, based on previous posts, I am pro-vaccine and I also wear my mask in public even if there is no mandate (for anything) in the province where I live now. My spouse also wears his mask in public also. We have two small boys who just recently were able to get vaccinated against Covid and we did everything we could to protect them. We got it from my parents. We let our guard down and we went against our better judgement and we let it happen. Long story short is that my Dad was outside painting the house, he said he was stuffed up but it was pollen from well, being outside. We believed it. It was actually Covid. It sucked and I hated every minute of it. I am also angry that after so long we protected our kids and we still got it because we didn’t trust our gut.

So here I am, a relatively healthy adult. I do have asthma which I talk about here. However in the big picture I am pretty healthy. I am rarely sick if only maybe once a year. It came on FAST. I took a test on Wednesday evening. this was about 530am. I just felt “off”. Like something was wrong. At this point I already knew that my Dad was positive, as well as my brother and nephew who went to my parents for dinner as well. Mind you this test showed negative however it was also a test that was left out in the car and went below freezing. Did that make a difference? I really cannot say whether or not it did. At this point once the boys went to bed my spouse had drove to the local library where he could pick up a few other sets of tests because we wanted them on hand. About two hours later I still was starting to feel even worse. I said screw it, I’m taking another test even though I just did. I had went outside to smoke a quick little joint, came back in and it was already positive. I knew it. I tried to sleep on the couch however at one point I was just far too hot and had to switch with my partner. By the morning I felt like utter crap. I had no appetite. I was stuffed up but my nose was not running.

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The worst is yet to come also. My youngest was starting to feel stuffed up. We gave him a Covid test too. Mind you he is 8 months old and we basically swabbed his boogers and before the liquid even finished through the test as soon as it passed the test line it was also positive. I then treated both of us for fever and giving us Tylenol to help keep it down. Thankfully the fever was only there for maybe 2 days. That being said the body aches still sucked we at one point we gave Tylenol before bed for a few days (I will write more about what they were like with Covid in a separate post which can be found here). My oldest however, he did not test positive for Covid until a few days later where he also had a fever and was hard to settle before bed too.

One of the hardest things I think to deal with when it came to Covid is the feeling that you have when you are positive. It made me feel dirty. Like I had done something wrong and that I was totally useless. It was hard to even make myself eat, in fact I didn’t even eat for the first day and a half. I drank Gaterade however it was hard for me to even think about food. My appetite was next o nothing and when I tried to eat some Pringles it was just too much for me. I had to stop. Another thing that was very difficult to do was to try not to push myself even further. That was extremely hard to do. Sometimes I would feel like wow, I am on the mend, and other times as the day progressed, I would feel like complete garbage by the evening time. To the point I would just crawl into bed and maybe watch a show and fall asleep watching it on my tablet.

What drives me nuts the most though, And I will say it again here for anyone who does not know my stance. COVID IS NOT A BAD COLD. It is literally anything but. Maybe for some that is how it presents itself, but in the big picture it really is not. I can understand how this may be something that gets people feeling like crap and even wind up in the hospital. Heck, as I write this I also have a weird cough nearly a month later that just won’t go away. Long Covid is real. What I cannot stand seeing is when people also say “WE need to live with it” as their way of ignoring it and moving on. We are ABLE TO LIVE WITH IT. We have been for nearly 3 years. That being said, we can live with it safely. You know to make it disappear like many other virus and diseases too. One simple precaution that can be made that can literally protect ourselves and everyone around is masks. Even if people don’t want to admit. They have and will continue to save lives. Not to mention there are many other countries that also wear masks for pollution and other various reasons.

I will go into a bit more details in this blog here, where I even talk about the “Surprise” Covid effects that no one talks about because truth be told, there is so much about this virus that are not normal.