Samplers-and-Santas
My husband will put me in the transport chair to a doctor. I can't even stand long enough to wipe my face or brush my teeth. Several hospital trips, two EMT home visits, inability to stand, walk, or speak loudly enough. It will take a very long time to recover, but the main issue is the change to my heart and trying to regain a safe rhythm. Thank God for my devoted and caregiving husband.
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My sister made it through the surgery without issue, both surgeons were pleased. She is doing well.
I am not. I think the monoclonals were a little too late.
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Four of them in fact. My heavy sweat clothes over cotton thermal, with two fleece and one sherpa throw on top. How can you be so fricking cold when you have a fever? So jittery and unnerved, this is weird. We did not receive a call yet for a treatment appointment. Getting nervous but not as much as Mark. He doesn't want to leave me if I don't improve and he needs to be there for her surgery. She is terrified and been told over and over how risky it is with her heart. I will have to pretend as best I can that I am better.
This is the bronze mum opening, I expected to step into the sun reflecting off concrete and feel comforting warmth, did not happen.
Back to bed, trying to stay awake more than eight of the twenty four hours.
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is a good thing to have. But a positive test is not. I was very surprised that they called at 8:30pm, slightly more than 24 hours since my test. They told me at the hospital results would not be available until Tuesday. Two negatives with the swab in the car, this one absolute positive and wanted to call me right away. I had a miserable night, high fever for the second time. I had a fever days ago, next day felt fine without symptoms, nothing noted at the ER visit, and then the fever again. The covid icu nurse told me this virus is so unpredictable, but she found that when it finds a host it likes, it will present and then retreat to gain strength. And then it will knock you on your ass up to two weeks later. But not always. I asked her if it likes crabass bitches as hosts, she said that's like family to it.
Would love this one but not charted by anyone as far as I could tell, Sarah Shepherd 1851. Is it? I need to shift my distraction and focus on something enjoyable. I know stress makes it all worse. Well, hell!! Haven't had any of that in the last nine months! But I will get through this.
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from what? Contradiction, misinformation, disagreement, conflicting data, lack of data, theories, conjecture, hypothesis, assumption, speculation. I just spent the afternoon in the ER recommended by Mark's doctor, did not want to go knowing it would be another afternoon of wasted hours. Four of them. For nothing. I just started coughing yesterday, what did they expect to see on an x-ray? My vaxed cousin got vitamin D, vitamin A, antibiotic, prescription cough medicine, I got nothing. Was told SO many contradictory and confusing facts that I came to the conclusion there are no facts regarding covid. After the x-ray I told the doctor that I have GGOs in one lung and he said "well then you've had covid". Pulmonologist said not definitive. I informed him that my blood test for antibodies was negative so I could not have had it, he said that test is useless. WHY GIVE IT???? The nurse told me that the in-car tests are not accurate and inserted the swab much deeper, said you must have symptoms in order to test. Mark had no symptoms at the time and did the in-car swab, positive. According to her, impossible. They even differ between doctors and hospitals as to monoclonal treatments, testing, quarantine length, everything. This nurse has been treating covid patients since the beginning, claims that day 15 - 18 are the absolute worse, she knows what I have is covid regardless of the test because of exposure, has a different time frame on monoclonals. told me to be very careful. With what???? Stay home until you can't breathe and then it's OK to come in and we'll reserve a ventilator for you. I understand that no one really knows the facts, Fauci who once was a wealth of information seems more concerned in how he looks on TV, and changes his mind daily, many times opposite of the CDC. No one is to blame for this, but stop giving random guidelines or opinions between hospitals. I'm done. Not mentioning it again, nor the mess in the photo below. I said I wouldn't again, but this one is just so insane. What the hell is with all the green in almost all my choices?
That's where I am. Quickly, a mild headache turned ugly. Choking, coughing, pounding head, low grade fever last night, chills. But I once again tested "not detected" so I can't receive the treatment. My new doctor never got back to me, Mark's doctor who has been handling this so far, hasn't yet today. That result is not to be used as the "sole basis" for determining diagnosis and exposure is to be considered along with symptoms. We are hoping this leeway allows the treatment.
The 600 count print pillowcases I ordered are a mess. Came out of the dryer like a rag, not for a facility. It's not easy to find a single top sheet in a print, always sold in sets, but I'll keep looking. I could make sets of cases from a nice percale. Can't go into JoAnn and prefer not to sew them. So I got out the Rit, and I made a few vintage cases pink and plan on pale yellow for two more. When the head stops pounding.
Wish me luck with answers, it's been several hours and we have not received a call yet.
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