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It's going to be a long Fall and Winter....

5 years ago

Started having a mild sore throat and headache at work Thursday night. Thought it was the usual thing I've been having for months now (allergies?). Here for a few days, gone, back again. Woke up Friday and felt worse. I feel like I have the flu today. Scheduled a rapid covid 19 test for tomorrow. I'm dreading going there and sitting for 2 hours in my car for them again but they're the only one in my area that has a 15 minute result. All the others are 2-3 days. Called in for tomorrow at work so they could have time to get help. Don't have to work again until Tuesday.


I have so much to do today but feel too bad to do it. One of my only days off, I thought. I was going to finish putting my side garden to bed for the winter, and pack my car with my son's things to take to him so he can ship it overseas. He is getting stationed in England and next week would have been the last time I got to see him for a long time. I won't be going if I'm still sick and if it is Covid then well, of course I won't be going.


The only person I was around coughing was a coworker, who coughed and hacked all night long last week. She was about 5 or 6 feet from me in a basement office. She had recently moved out of a tiny office when another coworker quit a month or so ago she decided to come out and be in my little pod of 3 desks. She then called off one night after that because of her husband being sick. I know this because she did it in a mass message to everyone in the office.


I did get the flu shot at the end of August, guess it could be that, not the first time I've had the flu even with the shot. I'm so over this pandemic, though, when you have to worry if it's just a cold, strep, the flu, or covid 19. I work with a lot of older people with comorbidities so I feel like I'm going to be getting covid testing frequently because I'm not going to take the chance of giving it to them.


Sorry this is so long.

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