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COVID is just the Flu!

K.C.

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I swear if I hear one more person say that COVID is just the Flu, I might knock their teeth out! 

I’ve had the Flu many times in my 47 years on this Earth and I this is NOTHING like the Flu. 

I caught it 4 months ago.  It was a brutal 10 days of high fevers, awful cough, chest/lung pain, whole body aches, ear infection, lose smell and taste,  I even passed out a few times… I really thought I was going to die!

Mine was a heavy viral load, so I kept testing positive for 6 weeks. (Needed 2 negatives to return to work)

 

Now, 4 months later, I have long hauler symptoms:

Heart palpitations feels like my chest will explode

Lingering cough that is so bad that I can’t breath

Headaches and Body aches

My left eye randomly dilates open several times a day making it impossible to focus.

Blood clotting problems

 

After 2 months of No smell/taste…now I have phantom smell/taste were everything is a forest fire.  It smells and tastes like pure smoke.  It’s so overwhelming, I feel like I’m choking from smoke inhalation.

 

The plus side, I have extremely high natural antibodies so I’m not required to take the Vaccine… yet.   

The minus side, I feel like shit!  I was scheduled to have my hip replaced back in the fall, but that got rescheduled for the spring. 

I returned to work late November, but every day is a struggle. 

Last week they did an MRI for the headaches, my eye, and smell/taste.  Next week they are testing for heart and lung damage.

 

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((This is my personal COVID journey.  If you got it and didn’t get sick or have no lingering effects, good for you!))

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Valkyrie

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Sorry to hear about your struggles with COVID.  :hug:  

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Snowblind

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I agree about the people who equate this to the flu. I've chatted with a couple of dozen people on line about their experiences with it as well as knowing a couple of others. Never seen, heard or read about anything like this virus before. One person gets the sniffles while the next needs a heart transplant after coming out of ICU. A friend of mine who is recovering is mid 70s and described parts of it like you did while saying he'd rather get covered in agent orange again. He's doing quite well now, tired but doing much better.  Strength to you

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chris191070

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Sorry to hear about your struggles with COVID. I hope you get back to full health soon :hug:

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Sherye Story Reader

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My nephew had it along with his wife who was pregnant at the time with their first child. They are fine now even though my nephew has problems breathing still. He also has had asthma all his life so wit the covid he contracted and the asthma too then you can imagine what he is going through even though they test negative now.

I am so sorry you had to go through with that and I don't want it either. I never even thought covid was like the flu. Like my stepson and his wife thinks. I wear a mask for my protection, but they don't. Hope they don't catch and give it to me though cause I will put them in their place if they survive it and I do too. I am glad I am healthy.

My prayers go out to you and all the victims that have caught it and are trying to get over it or have gotten over it even though they still have after effects.

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K.C.

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Thanks guys! It's been like watching a car crash in slow motion. 

Our daughter and her boyfriend both got it too, but recovered really quick with no lasting effects.  We were blessed that my hubby never got it even with all 4 of us in the same house!

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Aditus

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With having had AML and due to it some other stuff, I live in constant panic to catch COVID. I can't wait to get the vaccine so I can have my life back.

Seeing people protesting against the lockdown without wearing a mask it's difficult not to wish all kinds of bad upon them.

I wish you all the best, K.C.

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rustle

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Dude, I'm so sorry. At first, I thought this crap was milder than the flu, but a whole lot more transmissible, and the greatest threat was the burden on the health care system. The more they learn about this, the worse it seems to be. I'm sorry to hear about all your struggles with it, and I hope you see much relief soonest.

I agree with Aditus regarding maskholes.

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wildone

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I'm so sorry to hear about your struggles and continued effects of this very nasty virus that has crippled the world :( 

I do find it interesting that the ones denying it are so entrenched in their beliefs that it is a hoax, they are so steadfast in that idea, they are the complete 180 opposite of the people who do trust science and the actual testimonials of those that have had it. Unfortunately with this damn thing, everyday there is more testimonials that will never be heard :(.

Last week, a gentleman I've never met, but worked closely with for over 10 years, has been working from home, doesn't go out, his wife does all the shopping and such. Six years ago he had open heart surgery and wanted to ensure he would survive this. On a Thursday he got a package from Amazon, opened it and within 8 hours started having symptoms, admitted to the hospital the next day, died 5 days later :( Currently in Ontario there is a postal sorting area that handles a lot of packages and going through an outbreak of what they believe is the UK variant. The package went through here, and a lot of the staff are testing positive.

Now lets put that in perspective. So the parcel delivery person must have had COVID. He must of sneezed on the package just before dropping it off. Gary much have grabbed the package to bring in. He must have touched his face before washing his hands. So even though the chances are what, 1 in a 100,000,000 of this happening, it just goes to prove this is no fucking hoax. BTW, the doctors and health unit were so concerned with how quickly he died, the did a more in depth contract tracing and trying to find out where he got it from.

Now, I know the non believers will say, "Yeah, right, you've got to be stupid to believe that happened". My response? Well I've really given up on trying to give any response. Not worth the wasted breath on them. They believe what they believe. Just glad that up in Canada, our anti-maskers have rally's that I have seen on the news and such are generally under 500 people. Still, 500 going out and then risking the lives of the people around them, but not the 1000's upon 1000's of people that you see south of the border.

Too bad we can't draw an invisible line and everyone that believes it is a hoax, can go to this side of the line and those who believe the science and the facts are on the other side of the line. And the two sides shall never meet :( 

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KC, I really hope that things get way better rather than even a little bit worse. Once the vaccine and most the world is hopefully over this, the even a portion of the money put towards fighting and researching and everything else, is put into finding ways to fix the health aftermaths of this damn disease.

:hug: 

(BTW, I am in an immunocompromised group, so this is a reality to me, every day)

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