i held out for almost two years but omicron finally broke through. yep, i'm positive. positive
in the negative sense as somebody once said. so last week my mom's caretaker showed up
with some mild symptoms. same day we had her tested. boom, positive. my mom is over 70 immunocompromised
and she's recovering from cancer she had last year, i shared all that long backstory in a recent
video, so my fear was that she was going to get it. obviously with all the comorbidities covid could
be devastating for her, so as soon as we saw that positive test she went home to isolate and this is
where i give myself a little bit of a high five because right away i started keeping a distance
from my mom and wearing a mask even here at home just in case one of us got it and not the other
honestly at the time it felt a little unnecessary, a little weird, because we were like, what are the
odds that i got it and she didn't? but boy did it pay off to be careful. so we spent two days
keeping a distance. i've been staying here with her since the cancer diagnosis trying to help her
recover. but so, keeping a distance, i was eating in a separate room, always wearing a mask around her
pretty careful. two days later, last friday, i start to feel a little woozy, a little bit of a heavy
head, a little bit of the sniffles, so i run a quick antigen test. everybody thought it looked negative
but if i squinted real hard i could just barely guess the faintest speck where the positive
band is supposed to be and even though everybody else swore it was a negative test the objective
part of me knew it was an early positive so i just completely secluded myself into a room. this
room. and i've been here ever since. sure enough, during the night the real symptoms came a- knockin'
burning feeling, almost delirious, really restless night, rough night and in the morning i
ran another test but i already knew the answer and sure enough that test was a clear positive. so the
last seven days or so it's basically been meals in here, people stop by and drop off food sometimes
working in here, doing push-ups on the floor, basically almost like a prisoner. voluntary
prisoner but still .so that second day felt like a moderate to heavy flu, sore muscles, very tired, felt
like i took a beating, just spent the whole day in bed, that was about it. now, i'm fully vaccinated,
relatively young, no comorbidities, no major risk factors but honestly i didn't care how i felt i
was just worried sick that she had it too, and i was like for sure she must have it. but she appears to
no to have gotten it. so far it's been over a week she's been completely symptom free and she's been
tested multiple times, always negative. negative in the positive sense, right? it just goes to show in
medicine and public health we can understand and control lots of different factors but we never
understand every little piece of the puzzle. i got it with clear symptoms, not ambiguous, and somebody
twice my age with a compromised immune system and recovering from cancer didn't get it. seems
to not have gotten it, so far, fingers crossed, right? who knows why it turned out this way
individual susceptibility? she was exposed to maybe a lower viral load? i'm just happy it
turned out this way and i'm locked in here and she's fine and continuing with her treatments. so
i'm going to continue my isolation until the end, i'm going to do my time, i'm going to get a tattoo
work out in the yard, whatever it takes, i'm not passing this crap on to anybody else, that's
for sure. will there be long covid? we'll see, i feel fine right now but if i'm being completely
objective i know i'm not quite back to 100% yet. my sense of smell isn't completely back yet
there's like a light cough sometimes and if i laugh hard or if i take a deep deep
breath there's like a whistling sound so i know the airways aren't quite back to
100% yet, maybe they will be with time, hopefully, we'll see. if i went back what would i change?
i would have been even more cautious. i would have sent the caretaker home even faster. just minimize
any possible exposure. we've done pretty well to avoid it so far, we've been very careful,
virtually everybody else in the family caught it long ago, some people already caught it twice,
so we were pretty much the last ones, i guess i was overdue. obviously the odds are higher
now with omicron because the vaccines weren't made for this strain so the protection is more
partial, we know that from the studies, so the odds of catching it are higher, but i'm a little peeved
to be completely honest that i got it this late in the game after dodging it for so long
the silver lining for me is i didn't give it to anybody else and fortunately i didn't
have to go to the hospital, thank god, didn't help overload the healthcare system
so those two factors are the main thing for me. three more days of isolation ahead of me then i'm
back to society. no longer an outcast. stay safe, we got a video on reversal of diabetes dropping
very soon, take care. oh, can anybody send some food? please. so bored... how many studies can one read?
seven days down, three to go.