I was in Nashville last Tuesday night and when I got back Wednesday, Craig sounded awful. He said he had inhaled too much sawdust and would be fine. Shortly thereafter he started coughing and he was NOT fine. He lost his appetite and has had terrible fatigue but no gastrointestinal symptoms. He never had more than a low grade temperature but he got knocked down HARD. While I was busy treating his cough and congestion (with a few days of antibiotics that likely made no difference) I tried to keep myself from getting infected and potentially spreading it others. I worked out with my trainer on Thursday and when to the Veterans rally on Friday. Since then I have been home using Zicam nasal swabs, zinc tablets and hoping for the best. We isolated from each other the best we could. On Sunday I started getting a bit congested and had a bit of a productive cough by Monday. I was able to sleep a lot more than normal. I never felt truly bad and if it hadn’t been for what Craig was going through, I might not have paid much attention to the symptoms or tried as hard to get plenty of rest. For 3 days my daily assessment has been that I am not worse which was good.
Today I woke up feeling better. I then took a nap and am still in bed. Craig has been up for several hours but is now napping as well. He did say today he thought he was better as well as opposed to “not worse”.
Tomorrow I am going to work out with my trainer and get on with my life. Two weeks ago I offered to host the Robertson County Democratic Executive Committee (20 -25 people) for a social, team building event on June 1. While I do think our space will work well for this type of event, my secondary motive was to have a deadline to get A LOT of things done indoors and outdoors. Losing 7- 10 days to a virus was not on my plan.
No matter, we will get done what we can get done and host a lovely event. Fingers crossed that we do NOT have a heavy rain the day or two before that washes out our driveway.
Tamara Unleashed 