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[cosmolinguist]

I feel completely fucking normal today.

Which is good: no one else in the house does. mother_bones had a rough night and has officially tested positive today. Which at least means we can see about getting her some antiviral treatment.

Limiting her exposure to the virus is still important so we've got all the windows open again (the weather's a little less nice for it than yesterday but still not too bad!) and we're wearing masks when any two of us are in the same room. Which hasn't been a lot as I've worked all day and diffrentcolours has spent a lot of the day asleep.

I'm grateful to have work to keep me busy (and my manager is very kind and understanding; he made sure I knew I didn't have to work at all if I was ill but I'm fine and desperate for distraction). But my work is mostly solitary so it's made for quite a boring lonely time for me in a house where loneliness isn't usually a problem. Of course I'm lucky to have loneliness and restlessness to worry about, since I'm physically fine.

I'm aware that feeling fine today is no guarantee of anything tomorrow and I'm taking it very easy. I'm not expecting getting better to be a linear progression, and I'm very aware of the benefits of rest. I'm missing the exercise that's the only management tool I have for my mental health, but being restless and miserable now is better than having long covid forever.

For now I'm just glad I have been able to look after the others: this morning I conveyed two kinds of tea, phone charger, paracetamol, breakfast, ibuprofen, and a fan to the bedrooms where they were needed, and I took the dirty dishes away.

Comments

[barakta]

Just seen this and your last post. FUCKETY!

Glad you're not-too-bad so far and hope that remains the case for you and your lovely house humans. Glad your boss is lovely, that does help for doing what you can to stave off boredom without pressure/stress.

So cross with UKGov just not giving a fuck and wasting all the energy on pointless infighting and BeingToriesTM. Hospital doesn't require masks for patients ('we can choose'), but from what physio said today, staff had no-masks and then very quickly went back to masks...

So many people I know now have Covid.

FUCKETY!

[miss_newham]

Sorry it's hit your household; I hope none of you will have lasting effects. Best wishes for getting through the week(s). It was logistically hard enough in my home when I had Covid, and that was just me!

[forests_of_fire]

here's hoping that you continue to feel well and that differentcolours and mother_bones recover quickly. ♥

[jesse_the_k]

Sending love....