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Where did this germ come from?
I have no idea where I caught this thing from... I'm functionally housebound, and the only person I come in contact with regularly is my aide.
She was down with a cold over a week ago (maybe two weeks), and I didn't catch any of her symptoms then, and my symptoms (Started with a sudden sore throat Friday morning, and runny nose, both of which quickly diminished, but were followed fever and headache soon after) are different from hers, anyway...
I did get a new delivery by UPS earlier in the week, which had been sitting in my room for a few days. And the package finally opened the Thursday night before bed...
I'm wondering if I could have caught something from an overworked warehouse employee who sneezed their germs all over the contents as they taped up the box... Although the box was not airtight, the packaging inside the box was.
Is't possible?
(I seem to have shed my "Ugh!" icon... If I had the energy, I'd make a new one. But my head feels like it's stuffed with shredded, soggy cardboard.)
She was down with a cold over a week ago (maybe two weeks), and I didn't catch any of her symptoms then, and my symptoms (Started with a sudden sore throat Friday morning, and runny nose, both of which quickly diminished, but were followed fever and headache soon after) are different from hers, anyway...
I did get a new delivery by UPS earlier in the week, which had been sitting in my room for a few days. And the package finally opened the Thursday night before bed...
I'm wondering if I could have caught something from an overworked warehouse employee who sneezed their germs all over the contents as they taped up the box... Although the box was not airtight, the packaging inside the box was.
Is't possible?
(I seem to have shed my "Ugh!" icon... If I had the energy, I'd make a new one. But my head feels like it's stuffed with shredded, soggy cardboard.)
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Germaphobes look less crazy the more you read about it.
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It wasn't until the inner plastic packaging was opened that I showed symptoms, about 9 hours later. ...And I would have thought that that packaging would have all happened on an automated assembly line, by machines, these days...
But the timing is sure right on for it. Maybe the quality control person sneezed.
(If so, that makes the lack of paid sick leave for "non-skilled" workers, which is the norm in the U.S., thanks to the demise of the unions, downright criminal. Thank fate and my genes that I don't have a compromised immune system).
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It's stuff like this that gives epidemiologists nightmares. You have any idea how hard to would be to trace that back? Or how easy it would be for one sick worker in a factory in China to spread the next Plague around the world?
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*sniffle*
...I'm getting an inkling...
And now, I'm off to the kitchen to warm up some O.J., honey, and ginger...
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Yeah. That's why I'm thinking "Flu," too.
I dud get my flu vaccine back in November, which, while it hasn't been stopping the virus entirely, does lessen its severity.
So I'm keeping track of its progress, and am cautiously optimistic that this won't be one of the worse-case scenarios.
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Just "Doing nothing" feels like doing too much.
Watching YouTubers with gentle voices, and not caring if I understand the words, right now...
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Yay good self-care & doing as much nothin as possible. I hope you _do_ get better quick.
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I figure, in any case, a week to ten days is the general average for these things to run their course. So I'm about half-way through and don't feel like I've gotten close to death's door, yet...
Still... urghle...
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(On the good news side, I'm pretty sure this is not actually the Black Death) -- no swelling of lynph nodes, yet.
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So I'm wishing you a cozy and comfortable recuperation and return to feeling yourself again. What is your go-to comfort "thing" when you're sick? For me it's hot chamomile tea and snuggling into a sofa with the sun coming through a window.
As I commented above, I think the short time from opening the package to symptoms showing may indicate that the package isn't the source. But since cold & flu type virus can hang out for a long time before taking hold, I would guess that it could have come in on anything, such as recently purchased sundries.
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Mind-wise: listening to calm voices reading things, often with the volume at barely-audible levels (such as a news-reading service for the blind, or TED Talk videos on YouTube), so it's easy to zone in and out. I fall asleep fastest that way, at night, too.
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