Covid Recovery update

For those who don't know me personally, my spouse and I had Covid in the first part of September. He lost three weeks of work. I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and ventricular tachycardia. We're "recovered", but full recovery is taking a lot longer than any virus should. We've had some devastating flus before, this is different. This is dystopian sci-fi territory. This should make you think. Anyway...

This week's symptoms: 

Dull pain, bottom rib left side...which is kind of weird, since I had a dull pain bottom rib right side the month before I got the coof. Precursor? Coincidence? I was checked out and was not gallbladder issues, etc.

Hair is still coming out at approximately 60% more than usual. I've lost about 40% of my total hair volume at this point. Taking collagen, biotin, etc. should help, according to other long-haulers. We'll see. Not ready to chop off what I have left just yet.

Still having GI issues, as in everything just shoots through me. Actual diarrhea about half the time. I wouldn't mind so much if were actually losing me some weight, but, no. I'm hovering around 170. Could be worse, since I was around 180 BC (before coof).

Can't get blood O2 above 93. Gordon has been at 100% for weeks, the stinker. And that's another thing I'm noticing between our personal experience and the accounts I'm reading in the Covid Long Hauler support group on Facebook: this virus is NOT normal and natural. Read into that what you will.

Everybody has a different experience and different symptoms long-term. There are some commonalities, like diminished taste and smell, fatigue, hair loss, etc., but then it just feels like everybody else is experiencing a super specialized reality after that. Rashes, cardiac issues (mine was only at onset), swollen digits, recurring pneumonia, continuing weight loss, lack of appetite, numbness and/or tingling in extremities or an entire side of the body. The list is long. I really wish people in that support group would list their BC medical conditions and what prescriptions they're currently taking, because I think that is a huge factor in all of this. I think Gordon and I are amongst the very few of the cases who aren't obese and/or on one or more drugs.

Still happy to be in the "vaccine" control group, though. Wait this out, people. The next five years is going to be interesting, but probably not in a 100% happy way. Tell your friends and family you love them, whatever their medical choices.