03-29-2024, 09:15 PM
Yes. One of my dear friend's husband was stricken with what she thinks is Long Covid. He has a myriad of symptoms which only occurred in the past couple of years. The horrible thing is that LC cannot be tested for. They continue to wrangle his illnesses, and it is super difficult, because none of his symptoms can be really measured. That is the nature of LC. It is a complete sonofabitch.
In late December 2019, a vicious flu went through our community. Many people were hospitalized. It was the sickest I can ever recall being -- very high fever, coughing, just really crappy bodily aches, felt like complete crap. Usually, I bundle up, take on lots of fluids and I help my immune system burn out the virus; I am usually really sick for three days and then the fever breaks and I quickly recover. Not this time. I was sick for weeks, which was really very unusual for me. Two friends of mine who are nurses later believed that was the initial onset of Covid. MANY people I talked with still remember how sick they were, and how the symptoms lingered.
I had a phlegmy cough which lingered for more than two years. Went to the hospital, had lots of testing, blood samples, sputum samples, etc. Nothing. I took NAC and that helped a LOT. I still had the cough, but it was much less debilitating. We were all leveraged into taking the vax. Me, because I had to travel, and my Darlin' because she wanted to get whatever I got, and Mom because she didn't want to be left behind. We chose AstraZeneca, a semi-normal viral vector vax instead of the mRNA.
Last October, me, my Darlin' and my Mom all got another flu. It was a biotch. We were all sicker than dogs. I did my usual bundling up, and I got over it in about five days. My Darlin' and Mom were sick for weeks, but eventually recovered. Somehow my immune system kicked the ass of whatever was causing my phlegmy cough. It has been gone ever since then. I wish I could get this information to someone who truly gave a crap about virology, because while being anecdotal information and not measurable, I can't help thinking that it might be important.
In late December 2019, a vicious flu went through our community. Many people were hospitalized. It was the sickest I can ever recall being -- very high fever, coughing, just really crappy bodily aches, felt like complete crap. Usually, I bundle up, take on lots of fluids and I help my immune system burn out the virus; I am usually really sick for three days and then the fever breaks and I quickly recover. Not this time. I was sick for weeks, which was really very unusual for me. Two friends of mine who are nurses later believed that was the initial onset of Covid. MANY people I talked with still remember how sick they were, and how the symptoms lingered.
I had a phlegmy cough which lingered for more than two years. Went to the hospital, had lots of testing, blood samples, sputum samples, etc. Nothing. I took NAC and that helped a LOT. I still had the cough, but it was much less debilitating. We were all leveraged into taking the vax. Me, because I had to travel, and my Darlin' because she wanted to get whatever I got, and Mom because she didn't want to be left behind. We chose AstraZeneca, a semi-normal viral vector vax instead of the mRNA.
Last October, me, my Darlin' and my Mom all got another flu. It was a biotch. We were all sicker than dogs. I did my usual bundling up, and I got over it in about five days. My Darlin' and Mom were sick for weeks, but eventually recovered. Somehow my immune system kicked the ass of whatever was causing my phlegmy cough. It has been gone ever since then. I wish I could get this information to someone who truly gave a crap about virology, because while being anecdotal information and not measurable, I can't help thinking that it might be important.
