Covid news
Jul. 3rd, 2022 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI am getting gradually better, I think. Kip is feeling basically normal, and mowed the lawn yesterday with no problems. It is always like this; Kip picks something up at work, brings it back to me, is better in a few days and I drag around sick forever it is not fair.
Dad reminded me that only a very tiny dose of opiates will suppress coughing, and I have some pills left over from an old prescription, so I cut one in quarters and took one quarter, and sure enough that didn’t stop the coughing entirely but it stopped it enough that I could sleep for 4 hours, take another quarter and sleep another 4 hours which was so welcome I can’t tell you.
Last night I took one quarter and slept for 8 hours. I needed that so much.
At this point the covid is 1/3 cough and 2/3 exhaustion. I’m physically tired all the time. I am very carefully not pushing through it because what I’ve heard on the grapevine is that trying to push through it is a good way to take much longer to recover. This is annoying, because my dad and my brother were coming to visit on the 4th of July, and even once we test negative and are safe to be around* the house is definitely not going to be as clean as usual, and I don’t know that I will be up for much of anything in the way of trips.
* Guidance is scanty on on “safe to have a vulnerable person in your air space”, but as a first step, Kip and I are trying to meet “safe to go out again while masked” which is 2 negative tests in a row, and Kip was negative day before yesterday, positive yesterday and negative again today, whereas I had my first negative test this morning. I think I’m going to suggest Dad and Jake stay at a hotel for at least the first couple of nights, while Kip and I continue to test. We could in theory wear masks in the house, and only eat on the back porch, but wearing a mask while sleeping is heavy going.
I’m a bit worried about persuading Dad to take this seriously. He is in his eighties, and fairly deaf and was always headstrong, and while he is fully vaxxed and boosted, his 2nd booster isn’t due till the end of July, and I think he is leaning too hard on the assumption that as long as he doesn’t wind up in the hospital it is fine but I’m here to say it’s not fine; having Covid sucks.
But at least the era of Covid means the local Walmart has a way to order food online and then come in and pick it up at the curb, which has been a huge help.
Dad reminded me that only a very tiny dose of opiates will suppress coughing, and I have some pills left over from an old prescription, so I cut one in quarters and took one quarter, and sure enough that didn’t stop the coughing entirely but it stopped it enough that I could sleep for 4 hours, take another quarter and sleep another 4 hours which was so welcome I can’t tell you.
Last night I took one quarter and slept for 8 hours. I needed that so much.
At this point the covid is 1/3 cough and 2/3 exhaustion. I’m physically tired all the time. I am very carefully not pushing through it because what I’ve heard on the grapevine is that trying to push through it is a good way to take much longer to recover. This is annoying, because my dad and my brother were coming to visit on the 4th of July, and even once we test negative and are safe to be around* the house is definitely not going to be as clean as usual, and I don’t know that I will be up for much of anything in the way of trips.
* Guidance is scanty on on “safe to have a vulnerable person in your air space”, but as a first step, Kip and I are trying to meet “safe to go out again while masked” which is 2 negative tests in a row, and Kip was negative day before yesterday, positive yesterday and negative again today, whereas I had my first negative test this morning. I think I’m going to suggest Dad and Jake stay at a hotel for at least the first couple of nights, while Kip and I continue to test. We could in theory wear masks in the house, and only eat on the back porch, but wearing a mask while sleeping is heavy going.
I’m a bit worried about persuading Dad to take this seriously. He is in his eighties, and fairly deaf and was always headstrong, and while he is fully vaxxed and boosted, his 2nd booster isn’t due till the end of July, and I think he is leaning too hard on the assumption that as long as he doesn’t wind up in the hospital it is fine but I’m here to say it’s not fine; having Covid sucks.
But at least the era of Covid means the local Walmart has a way to order food online and then come in and pick it up at the curb, which has been a huge help.
