🎼🎶 I'm getting Covid 😷 for Christmas! 🎶🎵

[Maru Kitteh]

Had a 12 hour shift scheduled for today. Woke up with just the smallest tickle in my chest. We’ve been in outbreak so I decided to test.

This is my first time! My pulse is slightly elevated and I’m running a temp of 100.6. Oxygen is holding beautinfully. Slight headache I took Tylenol for. I’ve had some mild/moderate muscle aches. Not much cough at all.
All in all, so far so good.

Fellow test geeks, look how the viral load exploded in just a few hours! Wow!

Stay safe out there DU!

[Scrivener7]

1. Feel better! I'm so glad you're getting this now and not when we had nothing to fight it with.

Take care of yourself.

[chicoescuela]

2. Bummer, hope you're feeling better soon. I tested positive for Covid

on Sunday but first felt a little tickle in my throat Friday morning. Mostly a sore throat, cough and headache. The wife made go to urgent care. After a 2 1/2 wait in the parking lot, doctor gave me a prescription of Paxlovid. It must have worked as I feel 100% today.
I did miss Christmas Eve dinner with the kids and grandkids but ‘safety first. Get well

[malaise]

3. Get some rest and take care

[brer cat]

4. I hope it remains mild and that you recover quickly.

I got Covid for Christmas several years ago. Not my idea of a fun gift, but at least I didn't give it to anyone in my family.

[Emile]

5. Not a happy Christmas. Take care and get well soon.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Please start Paxlovid

I have several law partners and two children who took this drug and it helped a great deal

[JMCKUSICK]

16. Please, it works really well in reducing symptom severity.

[2naSalit]

7. Aw geeze!

What crappy surprise.

Hope it stays mild until it's gone! Take care!

[oasis]

8. Hang in there kiddo.

We’re with you!

[calimary]

20. Yes we ARE!

Sick or well, snotty or not, have a safe and comfortable day!, and feel appreciated!!!

❤️👍👑🎅🏻😘🌻💃💋🕺🎄🌟

[Maru Kitteh]

32. That's incredibly sweet of you. Thank you.

[LoisB]

9. Oh, goodness. I'm sure that wasn't on your wish list. I hope it's mild and you recover

quickly.

[Rigpa108]

10. 🎼🎶 All I want for Christmas is flu! 🎶🎵

Because COVID sucks!
Last year I had COVID for Christmas. Tested positive on the 25th. No fun.
Hope it's mild and you get better soon!

[orleans]

23. you don't want the flu either

i landed in the hospital for five days this past spring -- i couldn't breathe!

they ran all the tests and it was the damn flu!

i asked how this could be the flu; i've never had the flu before that made me not able to breathe.

the doc looked at me and said: "people die from the flu."

that hit me; i thought "oh yeah, i guess they do"

so pick something non lethal -- maybe a sinus infection?

[Dale in Laurel MD]

11. I don't trust the second test.

The control line didn't change color.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. In the second test the control line is markedly stronger than the test line but

It looks like that was before my viral load really exploded over the next few hours. In the next test done at 1500, the test line is WAY darker than the control. I did two other tests in addition to the ones you see here. I decided to get cheeky with it (if you will pardon the pun) and see if a buccal swab would register positive. It does not. Naropharyngeal swabs consistently peg the test lines in a deep crimson now.

[Crunchy Frog]

28. It's what's referred to as a "dye stealer"

Amongst people doing pregnancy tests.

I assume it works in a similar fashion for Covid tests.

[SunSeeker]

12. Feel better soon!

[multigraincracker]

13. Tested positive a year and a half ago.

Felt a little run down for a couple days. Twice before that I had unknown viruses that wiped me out and put me in kidney failure.
Hope they come up with a vaccine for Bird Flue.

[Maru Kitteh]

18. I just had a bad viral infection a couple weeks ago that was not covid.

I did not test for any other respiratory diseases.

[Crunchy Frog]

29. RFKjr and Dr. Oz will make sure they do.

I'm just sure of it.

[Maru Kitteh]

33. I'm hoarding tests now. I did before but I'm really going out of my way to do it now. RFKjr

is going to fuck everything up. Bigly.

[yardwork]

14. I hope you have a mild case and feel better soon!

[canetoad]

15. I really hope

It doesn't hit you too hard. Take good care of yourself.

[orangecrush]

19. Get well soon!

[Katcat]

21. I got Covid

2 years ago while I was in bed with a broken ankle. Yippee! Seriously, it gave me the same kind of headache that I got when I had the flu one time, a KILLER one. More like the migraines that I got when I was younger than a headache. If I hadn’t had the meds for the broken ankle I don’t know what I would have done except take 4 Tylenol l8ke I had to do for the migraines.
I hope you feel better sooner than later!

[Chicagogrl1]

22. Sorry

We have two Christmas servings of Covid over here. Does not make for a fun Christmas at all
☹️

[orleans]

24. two servings are two too many. hope it's mild and everyone feels better soon

[Chicagogrl1]

34. Thx orleans

The weird thing is I got it first & it was pretty mild for me and I literally was better in one day. My husband now has it, and he’s very sick, so much so that I’m going soon to pick up a prescription for Paxlovid.

[orleans]

35. covid is crazy -- it can hit hard on some people while others not so much

i'm glad you're feeling okay and you are able to help your husband get through it.

take care

[orleans]

25. i'm sorry. hope you recoup easily and quickly nt

[Diamond_Dog]

26. Aw geez. Not exactly the Christmas "present" you wanted, is it?

Two years ago all four of us in this house had it on Christmas (hubby and 2 sons). Christmas dinner was macaroni and cheese and nothing else.

You have done great not getting it up until now! Rest up & take care!

[usonian]

27. So sorry for your illness.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[wendyb-NC]

30. Hope you recover quickly

Take care of yourself, rest and hope your symptoms stay mild.

[Meowmee]

31. So sorry, I hope you feel better asap

Rest and keep an eye on bp an pulse ox etc. Get paxlovid from your doc as well. 🤗

[Wounded Bear]

36. I'm assuming you're vaccinated? Could account for mild symptoms...nt

[Maru Kitteh]

37. Yes, I'm very vaccinated. I had a pretty bad non-covid URI a couple weeks ago,

guessing that tanked my immune system along with stress over these last couple weeks. Hence, covid. I had to fly out to Seattle last week because my duaghter was having surgery, and I’ve had some other stresses, work has been awful. Nursing is always stressful, but we’ve had some very serious challenges this season, there’s a fucking carnival barker coming into HHS and I feel like people in upper level management and above have just disengaged in face of the coming storm.

[electric_blue68]

38. Good luck for a mild case and a full recovery!