Hang in there Bob, and have faith. You're in our prayers.
I'm certain Alayna and I already had this virus, back in Jan and Feb Before the announcement had even been made We had ALL of the original and symptoms, some unique to Covid-19, that the doctors were announcing originally but weeks before those were released. Back before some out there decided it wasn't being as effective as they'd like, and needed it to create more fear than it was creating organically, and started conflating the data of every death in the world as a Covid death, so it could have an appearance of having more symptoms than it actually has. We tested negative for flu and strep, so it was diagnosed as an upper respiratory infection and treated as such with Z packs. We had the annoyingly painful unproductive cough that I treated with lots of big doses of guaifenesin. We had the aches and pains I treated with Tylenol for her and ibuprofen for me because we were also treating high fevers. We had stomach issues we had to just deal with, and we generally felt like crap for a few weeks. Her fever spiked to 104 one night and mine to 103.8, and then the fevers went away, and then the other symptoms slowly went away. The loss of sense of smell was really disconcerting and annoying at first, but it eventually passed as well.
I still have some annoying residual breathing capacity issues that I am still working on rebuilding through exercise, because I am 55 and I smoked for several years before quitting 4 years ago it probably hit me harder than most non smokers who spend time outside in the open who have healthier immune systems than the people who smoke or spend their lives in hepa-filtered environments, or even worse both and have severely weakened their immune systems over the years. Thank God I quit when I did, or I think it would have hit me much harder, but luckily I did and have always spent a lot of time actually exposed to our atmosphere. I think smoking and hepa-filtered environments probably play an important roll in the lethality of this virus, but the media (and some other powers that be) doesn't seem to want to talk about anything that gives any useful or helpful info, or want us to have access to such information the way they snatch it down so quickly. They seem to just want to weaponize fear, despair, and hopelessness. I would suggest not binge-watching the msm bullshit and agendized sit-coms and docu-dramas while you're convalescing if you want to heal faster. negative emotions and feelings only impede healing time.
