Getting COVID

Hello everyone and welcome back to my weekly thoughts.

This week I got COVID, it happened right after, and probably because of, the show I did last week.

I'm still recovering but I'm doing pretty well for the most part, but I wanted to talk about my experience with COVID because that's really the only thing that happened to me this week, as I had to stay inside the whole time.

It took a couple days to set into my system but once I had a scratchy throat I knew what was coming

I believe it effects everyone differently but for me it was almost identical to the flu, I had a fever, body aches, and incredibly sore throat.

I was only really half conscious while the worst of it was happening, but thankfully that only lasted 1 day.

Most of the experience has actually been the aftermath, things taste and smell weird, I've still got a sore throat and a stuffed up nose, and I just generally feel weaker and more tired.

This is probably the most annoying part of the whole process, since I feel good enough to almost function the same as before, definitely not bedridden but also not quite 100% okay either.

It's during this period that I feel incredibly upset with myself, and for no good reason, I just want to feel alright again and I'm upset that it's taking so long.

I'm the type of person that gains self worth from accomplishing tasks, and when I'm sick it becomes very hard to accomplish much of anything.

This recovery time makes me feel quite useless, and it's been a hard mental barrier to overcome.

I've just been focusing on getting better and tea has been a great ally for me, nothing soothes my throat more.

I have to imagine sleeping more would probably also help me, but my sleep schedule has been in shambles for a while, so that's not ideal hahaha.

In the end, I think I am getting noticeably better, I'm just pissed off more than anything, my whole routine has been ruined and it's really hard to get back into it, in the meantime I'll have to think up a good strategy to start everything back up again, and employ a certain degree of patience in my life.

Thanks for reading, have a nice week, and until next time, goodbye!