Covid 19 - Positive
Welp I always says, "If it's statistically improbable, it's going to happen to me." I retire, and immediately get covid.
I know the exact moment I got it too. There was an IDIOT (I "know" his partner) walking around the gym COUGHING openly without covering his mouth. I knew the moment he walked past me coughing 5 times in a row he had it and he just gave it to me.
I should NEVER have gone back to LA Fitness. The only reason I went was they were open an hour later than my regular gym I'd been going to for the last 2 years. And I was trying to force myself to be more social.
Anyhow, idiot coughs on me. And within a day, suddenly I had a sore throat the next day. I wrote off the sore throat because I had been doing drywall repairs and inhaled a bunch of dust sanding. I thought it was from all the sanding. But I got a bad sore throat, and then my nose started running.
I was fine Friday night and went out to celebrate it being my last day of work. I could have gotten it then too. First time being around people and NO ONE in South Florida wears masks in bars here. :( So could have been then too.
Anyhow, Saturday just sore throat. Sunday sore throat and congestion.
Monday (yesterday) afternoon, I went to city hall to pay my property taxes. I wasn't feeling good as I exited the building, and there's a rapid testing tent right there. So I said, "sure. I might as well, I'm here." I got tested. And the results came back at 3am last night, so I got them this morning.
Positive.
But what's amazing is I woke up feeling great. Like I kicked it. Within the first two hours my nose had cleared up, and the sore throat is almost completely gone now.
So I only really felt bad/fluy for half a day and that was yesterday. Being triple vaxxed I think made all the difference in the world.
I'm recovering very quickly. I'm still gonna isolate for 10 days from first day of symptoms.
So yes - I'm triple vaxxed (pfizer, pfizer, moderna) and I still got it. But again, the vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting it so much as prevents you from dying from it. So I'd say I'm lucky I was vaxed.
It's a weird feeling. Almost relief. You have to understand I had two doctors tell me point blank I would die if I got covid. So I've lived in fear of Covid19 for 2 years straight now. So to get it and only have like a half day of really being sick, and already feel like I'm feeling better - that's a real since of relief after 2 years of living in fear of likely dying from it.
Again - GET VACCINATED !!! I truly believe that it saved my life here.