COVID-19 Report

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Originally Posted by nutmegchoi

I live in New Rochelle, New York where it happened to be the epicenter of coronavirus.
This is my trip report contracting and recovering COVID-19.

Myself is 47 year old female who's pretty active.
I used to run a lot until I stress fractured my femoral neck from running too much.
I went in this fight with a good heart and a nice set of lungs.
My annual checkups always been good, no preexisting conditions and no medications.

Boyfriend is 46 year old who's also fairly active.
He has higher blood pressure which he takes low dosage medication for.
He works in Manhattan and commutes via Metro North and subways.
We suspect he contracted along the way somewhere.

After

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.
But I'm glad we went through and (hopefully) done.

It is so nice to be out again and get some fresh air.
I never knew air can actually taste sweet.
We both lost so much strength from this fight it was hard to even walk a mile around our neighborhood.
I never been this physically weak in my life.
One day at a time.

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This whole experience opened my eyes to focus what's really important in our lives.
Out of horrible pandemic, I have some priceless lessons to walk away.

As far as we know, we didn't infect any of our co-workers, neighbors or friends which gives us comfort to know.

We filled out application at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan to take antibody test to donate our plasma for other COVID-19 patients fight.
Anything to help to end this pandemic.

Going to pop a champagne this weekend to celebrate life and end 33 day dry spell.

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Stay safe and stay healthy, mags!

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Thank you for sharing your whole fight with this virus. It serves as a waking call to those people who still don't give a sh1t about this covid-19. Glad you and your boyfriend was finally able to get back to your feet and now in better situations.

Nice, NMC.

Hang in there, Garfield.

Thanks for the well wishes guys. As a small update, Day 1 after the vaccine hasn't been bad. I haven't noticed any fatigue or headache yet. The left arm pain is a bit more noticeable, and it gets worse depending on whether I have it flexed vs. just relaxed. Still, I'd say it's only a 2-3 out of 10 on the pain scale, and the spicy biriyani that I had for lunch was a lot worse. I'll update if anything ridiculous happens, and maybe again after the 2nd shot. If you guys have any questions, feel free to ask, but it's been pretty unremarkable so far.

Also, it's really heartening to hear that you still have antibodies Choi! I was listening in on the FDA VRBPAC meeting on Youtube today, and the duration of the vaccine response was a big unknown that came up a few times. Knowing that your antibodies are floating around gives me a little bit more hope that immunity can last long enough to snuff this out over the next year.

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Originally Posted by Rideski

Is there a survivor Greek club yet?

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Not sure if this is what you meant but a club certainly exists:
https://www.survivorcorps.com/

Hey, goldenboy - has your friend considered getting vaccinated? I've heard it brings these symptoms to a fairly rapid grinding halt. If he has had it, it might be the proof he's wanted.

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Originally Posted by dans1212

covid sat me in bed for 2 days, beyond that it passed quickly. appreciating the antibodies now

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Similar. Head cold for a few days. Slept for 36 hours. Feel lucky. Few more days of lethargy fatigue and head fog.

Sadly some arent so blessed.

I would say it’s not so much antibody blessing (no travel passport for us) as the fact that we have been blessed with good immune systems on this.

I got my ass kicked 14 months ago far worse.

And 3 years ago I had a month of hell