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I contracted Covid-19!! (1)
I have the coronavirus and hope you’ll act like you have it too.
I realized quite suddenly while making soup two Mondays ago that I couldn’t smell anything. Not the pan full of chopped onions, the herbs or any of the use-what-I-have ingredients dumped in from my fridge.I had started feeling sick a few nights before and already decided to self-isolate completely in my house until I felt better, but hadn’t been that worried. My cough was wet, so I figured it was just a cold. But this was different, and matched what I’d read could be an early sign of COVID-19.
That’s the nature of this disease — it can be merely uncomfortable or potentially deadly, but for many, confirmation begins with these deceptively simple, irrefutable symptoms.
At least once a day, I warmed up another bowl of my grab-bag soup and wondered if it was somehow miraculously delicious, or so terrible as to be barely edible. Who could know? I was alone in my house, and my sense of taste and smell had vanished.
I wouldn’t go in for a test until that weekend, after talking to a doctor on the phone, but the lack of taste and smell acted as confirmation even before the positive test result.
I have been extremely lucky. I have felt pretty awful — an intense cough and body aches, consistent low fever, sore throat, headaches and a strong desire to lie back down on the rare occasion that I’m not already horizontal in bed — but for me, the virus has basically been akin to a bad cold or flu. I don’t have any underlying conditions and have yet to develop any medically serious symptoms.
My story is to warn you that this is not the common cold or a regular flu. This virus is serious.
My name is Donya, and I am an otherwise healthy young & active girl with no past medical history. I am a health freak, I work out five to six times a week, I have a six-pack on a good day, and I completely took my health for granted.
I thought I was INVINCIBLE—I thought I was immune to this coronavirus because I am healthy and young. But boy I was wrong!
In early March, reports of novel transmission of the coronavirus were just starting to appear in the United States. It was a precarious situation, but community transmission of the virus was not quite so widespread.
‘Sure, I’ll wash my hands,’ ‘I’ll social distance after that party,’ I thought.
Looking back, there were too many opportunities for me to have caught this virus. I did not take my health seriously. I figured I could avoid the virus, but in the off-chance I were to get it, it would be like a mild flu or a bad cold. I flew home from a two-month trip to my homeland, ventured on long flights home and around lots of people in Iran & JFK airport. I went to a beach party in Los Angeles and saw lots of friends. I was not careful. I did not take the necessary precautions. I did not think it could happen to me. The fact of the matter is – you NEVER know.
A day after arriving back in LA, symptoms started to kick in. On September 12, I woke up with fever, chills, fatigue, generalized muscle aches, and joint pain. Probably just a bad case of the flu, right? No cough, no shortness of breath, no difficulty breathing, no respiratory problems whatsoever. No nausea, no diarrhea. JUST Fever and chills.
Thinking ‘I’ll get over it soon,’ I took some Ibuprofen and Tylenol and stayed in bed most of the day. The next day, I had a routine doctor’s appointment. I was almost turned away because of my symptoms, but I fought to be seen.
Continued...
@e_britannica❤️
I contracted Covid-19!! (1)
I have the coronavirus and hope you’ll act like you have it too.
I realized quite suddenly while making soup two Mondays ago that I couldn’t smell anything. Not the pan full of chopped onions, the herbs or any of the use-what-I-have ingredients dumped in from my fridge.I had started feeling sick a few nights before and already decided to self-isolate completely in my house until I felt better, but hadn’t been that worried. My cough was wet, so I figured it was just a cold. But this was different, and matched what I’d read could be an early sign of COVID-19.
That’s the nature of this disease — it can be merely uncomfortable or potentially deadly, but for many, confirmation begins with these deceptively simple, irrefutable symptoms.
At least once a day, I warmed up another bowl of my grab-bag soup and wondered if it was somehow miraculously delicious, or so terrible as to be barely edible. Who could know? I was alone in my house, and my sense of taste and smell had vanished.
I wouldn’t go in for a test until that weekend, after talking to a doctor on the phone, but the lack of taste and smell acted as confirmation even before the positive test result.
I have been extremely lucky. I have felt pretty awful — an intense cough and body aches, consistent low fever, sore throat, headaches and a strong desire to lie back down on the rare occasion that I’m not already horizontal in bed — but for me, the virus has basically been akin to a bad cold or flu. I don’t have any underlying conditions and have yet to develop any medically serious symptoms.
My story is to warn you that this is not the common cold or a regular flu. This virus is serious.
My name is Donya, and I am an otherwise healthy young & active girl with no past medical history. I am a health freak, I work out five to six times a week, I have a six-pack on a good day, and I completely took my health for granted.
I thought I was INVINCIBLE—I thought I was immune to this coronavirus because I am healthy and young. But boy I was wrong!
In early March, reports of novel transmission of the coronavirus were just starting to appear in the United States. It was a precarious situation, but community transmission of the virus was not quite so widespread.
‘Sure, I’ll wash my hands,’ ‘I’ll social distance after that party,’ I thought.
Looking back, there were too many opportunities for me to have caught this virus. I did not take my health seriously. I figured I could avoid the virus, but in the off-chance I were to get it, it would be like a mild flu or a bad cold. I flew home from a two-month trip to my homeland, ventured on long flights home and around lots of people in Iran & JFK airport. I went to a beach party in Los Angeles and saw lots of friends. I was not careful. I did not take the necessary precautions. I did not think it could happen to me. The fact of the matter is – you NEVER know.
A day after arriving back in LA, symptoms started to kick in. On September 12, I woke up with fever, chills, fatigue, generalized muscle aches, and joint pain. Probably just a bad case of the flu, right? No cough, no shortness of breath, no difficulty breathing, no respiratory problems whatsoever. No nausea, no diarrhea. JUST Fever and chills.
Thinking ‘I’ll get over it soon,’ I took some Ibuprofen and Tylenol and stayed in bed most of the day. The next day, I had a routine doctor’s appointment. I was almost turned away because of my symptoms, but I fought to be seen.
Continued...
@e_britannica❤️