Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Took me a good five days to get over this one. Painkillers knocked it down, but when they went away I felt it. Worse of any of them. They've all progressively gotten worse. Maybe it's in my head.

The others really knocked out my wife and she had no issues at all with this booster. So I guess just luck of the draw.

Said it then and before, I'll take it any time if it means not getting seriously sick or sick at all. I do hope it becomes a yearly thing, though, like the flu shot. One of my kids had a well check today and his pediatrician said hopefully they'll even figure out a flu/COVID single shot next year.

 

hmmm, etc.


‘They can’t ignore us any more’: five women on long Covid and medical misogyny


In June, Dr Massimo Galli, a well-known infectious diseases specialist in Italy, disclosed that since contracting Covid in January, he had experienced widespread muscle pain and “a fair amount of fatigue that I did not have before”.

The interview, headlined My Long Battle With Long Covid, contained a mea culpa: Galli confessed that he had initially doubted the condition. “With due embarrassment,” he admitted to having believed many long Covid symptoms – including brain fog and cardiovascular issues – to be psychosomatic phenomena. “Now that I’m myself affected, I have to reconsider some of my beliefs,” Galli said.

 

Living with long Covid | Society | The Guardian

 

The killer for me was the inability of the body to recover. A workout that would mean one day of soreness suddenly would wipe me out for days, and the day after I couldn’t put my arms above my head. It was a level of pain that I hadn’t experienced since football two-a-days. That finally subsided about 18 months after covid. It’s such a weird set of symptoms. Along with the inability of the body to regulate temperature, it was deeply annoying. I’d take that over my mother-in-law, who lost her sense of taste two years ago and has never regained it.

 

Got booster #3 yesterday, Moderna again. No effects that I could tell. Got a flu shot Wednesday.

All juiced up for winter and beyond.

 

A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise

 

Last week my senior in high school had his school theater production postponed because of, wait for it, the flu. Seven of them got the freaking flu. Confirmed. My first thought was, ugh, it's only early October. Then, after all we've gone through the past few years, the show got stopped by the flu -- hey, it's just the flu right? (Never understood that argument, because the flu isn't good.)

Then, it was, we need to go get everyone their flu shots now.

 

Sounds like locking the barn door after the horses have gone free.

 

There's an upper respiratory thing going around here, enough to make me have my first "is this a cold or is it COVID" thoughts of the season. Seems to be a cold. Tested three times for COVID, all negative. Still a touch unpleasant, though. No fever or chills or loss of taste or smell, just a deep cough and stuffy nose. Soldiering through...

 

That was my Plan A today but fever keeps creeping up like Johnny Cash announcing the flood line. Back to bed.

 

Same. Had a sore throat and deep cough a couple of weeks ago. Tested negative. Me and the little guy are finally getting over it.