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...I would have failed utterly.
In my defence, the plague finally caught me. I'm fine, but if that was the milder strain after three jags then goddamn am I glad I missed the OG version. I'm lucky, for me it did fall somewhere in a grey area between Worst Cold Ever and Eh, Shitty Flu. But the worst part for me wasn't the week+ that I was properly sick, it's that that was five weeks ago and I'm still not over it. Like, I'm 90% fine, but I'll still get random muscle pains, or have uncontrollable two minute long coughing fits, or out of nowhere suddenly be bone tired in a way that's totally disproportionate to what I've done. I am just So Ready for it to be over.
The weird thing is that when I was really sick (Christmas week into New Year) I was taking daily lateral flow tests, all of which came back negative, and if work wasn't still having us do PCR tests I never would have known and just written it off as a random weird bug, so make of that what you will. Actually, now that I write it down, what you probably should make of that is that I've been doing the LFTs wrong this whole time.
But in encouraging news I spent that whole holiday week with my sister and parents (damn you, incorrectly administered Lateral Flow Tests!) and they didn't have a symptom between them and all tested negative. Hurrah!
In my defence, the plague finally caught me. I'm fine, but if that was the milder strain after three jags then goddamn am I glad I missed the OG version. I'm lucky, for me it did fall somewhere in a grey area between Worst Cold Ever and Eh, Shitty Flu. But the worst part for me wasn't the week+ that I was properly sick, it's that that was five weeks ago and I'm still not over it. Like, I'm 90% fine, but I'll still get random muscle pains, or have uncontrollable two minute long coughing fits, or out of nowhere suddenly be bone tired in a way that's totally disproportionate to what I've done. I am just So Ready for it to be over.
The weird thing is that when I was really sick (Christmas week into New Year) I was taking daily lateral flow tests, all of which came back negative, and if work wasn't still having us do PCR tests I never would have known and just written it off as a random weird bug, so make of that what you will. Actually, now that I write it down, what you probably should make of that is that I've been doing the LFTs wrong this whole time.
But in encouraging news I spent that whole holiday week with my sister and parents (damn you, incorrectly administered Lateral Flow Tests!) and they didn't have a symptom between them and all tested negative. Hurrah!