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My First time with Covid
Mar. 21st, 2023 08:47 amIt’s been 11 days since I tested positive for COVID. On the night I started feeling ill, I had just met my old book club (made up mostly of retired people) but thankfully none of them caught it from me. Tony, however, an older man I’ve been seeing (more on him in another post), let me sleep over his house and also came down with it. He had it much worse, spending at one point 24 hours in bed unable to leave it or eat anything.
I’d been staying outside of London, in Coulson South, with an old friend from Hong Kong, Silke, and her new family (her partner of three years and his two 8-year-old daughters) and they took good care of me. Silke made me take the test as soon as I returned from Tony's. It was the first time I’d tested positive.
I had a big, comfortable guestroom, with a TV with all the streaming channels, plus food sometimes brought to me by Silke, or sometimes left in the kitchen for me to collect and bring back to my “prison” (as we began to affectionately call my bedroom.) I also started a temp job with a large school organisation (data entry; moving their website content from an old site to a new one), which I was able to comfortably do from the “prison”.
I’m really glad I took four jabs. I have no doubt my symptoms would have been worse if I hadn’t. It mostly felt like a cold, with brain fog. 10 days later, I was still testing positive but feeling back to normal, so we made the decision I could come out of the prison and no longer wear the mask.
I’m now in West London, house sitting for two weeks for a couple of friends on holiday in Brazil. Then I return to the East End, to stay in a friend’s basement for three weeks… and then I fly back to Brazil with my dad! Hopefully I’ll get to see everyone I’d love to see before I return. I have no idea when I’ll be able to visit the UK again.
I’d been staying outside of London, in Coulson South, with an old friend from Hong Kong, Silke, and her new family (her partner of three years and his two 8-year-old daughters) and they took good care of me. Silke made me take the test as soon as I returned from Tony's. It was the first time I’d tested positive.
I had a big, comfortable guestroom, with a TV with all the streaming channels, plus food sometimes brought to me by Silke, or sometimes left in the kitchen for me to collect and bring back to my “prison” (as we began to affectionately call my bedroom.) I also started a temp job with a large school organisation (data entry; moving their website content from an old site to a new one), which I was able to comfortably do from the “prison”.
I’m really glad I took four jabs. I have no doubt my symptoms would have been worse if I hadn’t. It mostly felt like a cold, with brain fog. 10 days later, I was still testing positive but feeling back to normal, so we made the decision I could come out of the prison and no longer wear the mask.
I’m now in West London, house sitting for two weeks for a couple of friends on holiday in Brazil. Then I return to the East End, to stay in a friend’s basement for three weeks… and then I fly back to Brazil with my dad! Hopefully I’ll get to see everyone I’d love to see before I return. I have no idea when I’ll be able to visit the UK again.
