My Covid-19 Experience

My Covid-19 experience is like other's that I have read and heard about, the virus played by its own script.

Upon coming home from work on Monday, June 29th, I was feeling fatigued and had decided to go to bed around 6pm.  I had taken my temperature at work that noon.  I had none.  By the time, Tammy got home from work around 8pm, I had a fever and was experiencing body aches.  I didn't sleep well that night and had drenching night sweats.  I called out of work around 2am.

On Tuesday, I went to CVS for a noon appointment to be tested at their drive-thru site.  I had off and on chills with a fever and body aches that day with drenching night sweats again.  On Wednesday, my body aches were gone as was my high fever.  I did laundry and was feeling well enough that I thought I might return to work on Thursday.  After a call to my boss, he thought it best to wait for my test results.  Good thing for come Thursday morning, I had several bouts of diarrhea.  Over the next several days, I had no fever, but would feel fatigued one day and fine the next, did have an on and off again scratchy throat, and daily congestion.

Finally, on Saturday afternoon, July 4, I got my test results back - positive for Covid-19. I would need to be out of work for the whole next week to allow for the recommended 14 day recovery time .  As I write this on Tuesday, July 7, I have been fever free since Wednesday, July 1 and am only dealing with the occasional headache and congestion.  I did experience a weird, itchy rash on my arms on Monday that lasted a day and has been a minor issue on my legs off and and on since then.  I am thankful that I experienced a mild case of Covid-19.

For those wondering, Tammy was tested for Covid-19 on Monday, July 6th, and got her negative result back on Tuesday, July 7th.  She had an anti-body test done on Tuesday and that came back negative the next day.  (She did work on a covid floor at the hospital for several weeks back in April.)