I thought this was my “Get Out of Covid Free” card

Sunday morning and Day 3 of feeling like I was hit by a truck.  I was fine on Friday until 10pm, when my temperature shot up like a rocket.  All day Saturday it was 100.8.  I can’t stop coughing and every inch of my body hurts from my head to my toes.

My neighbor up the hall knocks on my door earlier and asks if I’m using the laundry room.  I tell him no thru the door.  He says “WHAT?”  I answer “IF I OPEN THIS DOOR YOU’RE GOING TO GET COVID!”   Is he running away?  I’m tempted to chase him.

Less than 15 minutes later, another knock at my door.  It’s Nurse Steele from the 6th floor, the nicest nurse in Pittsburgh.  Thoughts of infecting my neighbor quickly fade.  She tells me not to open my door, but would I like a rapid covid antigen reponse test.  I say yes, please.  (If she had asked if I wanted my gallbladder removed, I would’ve said yes to that too.  I just want SOMETHING done.)

She asks me if I forgot to get vaccinated and adds “It’s okay, you’re not the first one here to put it off.”   EXCUSE ME?  

I fetch my vaccine card, slide it under my door.  She slides it back (with her foot) and says “I’m sorry, I’ll be right back!”

This is me, after learning one of my blogging friends is a Conservative.  Just kidding—it’s me getting my test results back, I am “70 to 90 percent positive for covid.”

I had this once before, you know.  In July 2020.  My God, I’m a hermit and still manage to get this awful thing twice!

Nurse Steele asks (thru my door)  if I have a thermometer.  YES I tell her, I most certainly do. 

    

I told her yesterday it was 100.8, so maybe I’m getting better.  She asks if I feel any better.  Nope.  She says to try not to worry too much.  If it was a couple degrees higher and there were other factors involved, like being in my sixties or having high blood pressure…

Haha—I’m doomed! 

Nurse Steele left then returned later and told me (through my door) she alerted building management.  They’re going to email a notice to all the residents in our building that I am under quarantine and should be avoided this week.  Do other residents have to know??

I’m not bothered, we’re getting 6-12” of snow tonight and I’m stocked up with everything I need.  While I’m not in bed, thrashing my sheets and muttering incoherently, I shall be working on my Unablogger Manifesto.  Talk to everyone soon.