I'm feeling about the same as yesterday.
It's like I either have a mild cold or very bad allergies.
My muscles ache. My throat is sore and scratchy. My eyes itch and are full of crusty stuff when I wake up (gross, I know). My nose runs. It hurts when I take a deep breath and I cough if I do anything more active than walk to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. As I've said from the beginning, however, this may only be a very bad case of allergies. I'm allergic to everything that blooms in the spring.
All the trees are blooming where I live in the Southeast. It was beautiful on the way to get testing yesterday. Has anyone ever been to the Washington DC Cherry Festival? I see it's mostly canceled now but that's what the trees look like all around me:
National Cherry Blossom Festival cancels and postpones events
My symptoms (except for the muscle aches and painful breathing) are cut in half by taking benedryl but that makes me sleepy so I haven't been taking it unless my symptoms get really bad. My DH seems to have slightly different symptoms. He is coughing continually, has a low fever and seems to have much more congestion than me. I worry he has it and I only have allergies and haven't developed it yet. Normally I get sicker than him when we both have something, but this is reversed and it's worrying me a little. My DH thinks he in invincible and will feign that he is feeling better than he is, but I can tell when he's feeling worse than I am.
We continue to sleep in separate rooms, keep our distance from each other in the house and avoid sharing things. I have given him medicine and brought him food and then washed my hands immediately after. I haven't kissed him since he developed a fever on Sunday and I think he's a bit miffed at me for that. LOL. I love him so much. But I can't risk getting what he has no matter what it is at this point. I have to stay the healthier one to take care of him.
I'm figuring that if he only has some upper respiratory illness and not CoV19 that we still won't be able to go to the hospital if that develops into pneumonia or bronchitis or something where we would normally go in for a simple x-ray. This CoV19 is going to forever change our health care system I think. We have to be able to care for ourselves in isolation at home. I feel like this is doable with our current symptom level. This feels like a mild flu or a mild cold or very bad allergies to me. And that may still end up being what we have. I can't repeat enough times that our symptoms are not too bad. If CoV19 was not in the news and shutting everything down we would go about our lives as normal coping with our symptoms with OTC remedies. My DH might have only taken 1 or 2 sick days at most. He is currently in his office working from home. He is upbeat and cracks jokes at me a couple times a day. He keeps singing this song:
Which is made all the more hilarious to me by the fact that we are teetotalers and abstain from all alcohol for a combination of personal and religious reasons. But I digress. In short, I think we will be just fine if we can keep laughing in the face of this strange new reality we have entered.
