...and then there was 2020...
I may have had Covid in late 2019, before it was officially in this country. I was never sure because I didn't have medical treatment (it was clearly a virus, so antibiotics wouldn't help...) and I'm old enough and disabled enough to apparently have little survival chance if I did get C19.
I've been ill ever since. The cough was so bad, and held on for so long, that the GP checked me for lung cancer; I didn't have it.
It was a tremendous relief when I got my sense of smell and taste back, months after the original illness (and about a month before "losing the sense of smell" was declared to be a major symptom.)
I was still quite ill when I was found to have no anti-bodies to Covid; that was about eight months after the mystery illness and I'd hardly recovered at all. I've been trying desperately to shield, ever since - especially as I've been allergic to every antibiotic tried for other things, ever since the mystery illness.
I've been ill ever since. The cough was so bad, and held on for so long, that the GP checked me for lung cancer; I didn't have it.
It was a tremendous relief when I got my sense of smell and taste back, months after the original illness (and about a month before "losing the sense of smell" was declared to be a major symptom.)
I was still quite ill when I was found to have no anti-bodies to Covid; that was about eight months after the mystery illness and I'd hardly recovered at all. I've been trying desperately to shield, ever since - especially as I've been allergic to every antibiotic tried for other things, ever since the mystery illness.