What bugger am I talk about? You might have heard a few things about it. Here’s a picture of it.

Seen something like that before? Yeah, you have. It’s that damn COVID-19 bug! Mother fucker got me bad! Wait, you say? You said you think it got you. You don’t know? It’s not confirmed, but I am 99.9% sure it was COVID. I’ll tell you why I think so and why I didn’t get it confirmed.

First of all I did not go to the doctor to get it confirmed for a couple of reasons. As you will see by the symptoms I am going to list, I was in no shape to drive myself. That left Michelle, but that was a big NOPE because she was recovering from knee surgery at my parents house which was next door to where we had the RV parked. The only other options were my elderly parents and I was not about to risk their health. So I decided unless I had trouble breathing, I was going to tough it out alone. I self-quarantined in my RV and did not come out for a week. Let me tell you the symptoms and why I am convinced it was COVID.

1. First off I was feeling like crap. I know that was nothing in and of itself, but that’s how it started. Just out of the blue I started feeling sick above and beyond what I already deal with due to my liver disease.
2. I was running a 102 degree temp consistently for three days straight. I already run low when it comes to body temp. My normal is 96.8 to 97 degrees.
3. Terrible headache that would not go away.
4. Upset stomach. I couldn’t eat anything. I actually lost 10 pounds during the whole thing. Not that I couldn’t stand to lose some pounds but that would not be my choice of diet.
5. Every muscle in my body cried out in pain if I moved an inch. I did not even get out of bed for three days and tried to move as little as possible.
6. My chest was sore which had me a bit concerned as this is a respiratory disease. Luckily it didn’t progress to the point I couldn’t breathe.
7. This one put the nail in the coffin (figuratively thank goodness). I lost all sense of taste. Food was like mush in my mouth. It had no taste and it just seemed to be mashed up detritus.

I can honestly say that in my 53 years, I have never felt that bad! I’ve had full blown flu and pneumonia and they were a walk in the park compared to this. I don’t wish this on my worse enemy. Well, maybe Ranger Dick, but that’s another story. After a week things finally started to get better. I regained my sense of taste and one by one the other symptoms started to go away. It took probably another week to get back to 100% and I was finally able to emerge from the leper ward that my RV became. I cleaned that sucker from top to bottom. Hope I never go through anything like that again.

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