four weeks on
Aug. 21st, 2022 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeToday is four weeks since I tested positive for The 'Rona. All the traditional symptoms (sinus, lunger cough, etc) are gone - anything I'm feeling now is clearly regular ole allergy crap - but I am still very low energy. I hasten to add that it's not an oxygen or breathing question; the pulse-ox shows me as being just fine in the bloodstream, and I'm never out of breath or whatever; I just...can't, frequently. I did the shopping yesterday morning, and then curled up on sweh's couch for several hours watching teevee, and when I got home I nearly had a blubbering meltdown from how exhausted I was.
I feel like I had more energy at Pennsic, which seems wholly backwards, though S. points out that I was not working a stressful job while there, let alone commuting. (And it has been a stressful work week, it's true. And I have to go in three days next week. FML.)
The closest I've ever felt like this in the past was the summer during college that I had mono. Even after the mono (and the much worse secondary infection, my God I never want anything that foul to come out of my nasal passages again, or anywhere else for that matter) was over and I was to all appearances "fine", I was easily exhausted and couldn't do a lot - I remember that my friends and I went to a water park and on the way home I was just silently crying in the backseat because I was just. so. tired. I don't remember how long it took me to get back to normal; I don't feel like it was super long, but also, I was young and springy and largely carefree. So I'm trying to be patient with myself, but this is not a thing I am good at, especially when there are so many things I want to do right now.
sweh's couch for several hours watching teevee, and when I got home I nearly had a blubbering meltdown from how exhausted I was. I feel like I had more energy at Pennsic, which seems wholly backwards, though S. points out that I was not working a stressful job while there, let alone commuting. (And it has been a stressful work week, it's true. And I have to go in three days next week. FML.)
The closest I've ever felt like this in the past was the summer during college that I had mono. Even after the mono (and the much worse secondary infection, my God I never want anything that foul to come out of my nasal passages again, or anywhere else for that matter) was over and I was to all appearances "fine", I was easily exhausted and couldn't do a lot - I remember that my friends and I went to a water park and on the way home I was just silently crying in the backseat because I was just. so. tired. I don't remember how long it took me to get back to normal; I don't feel like it was super long, but also, I was young and springy and largely carefree. So I'm trying to be patient with myself, but this is not a thing I am good at, especially when there are so many things I want to do right now.
