Testing Positive For Covid
What I read: My Covid Home Test Results. June 20, 2022.
I’m sequestered at home with some minor symptoms after testing positive for Covid using a home test.
I’m not feeling terrible, but I don’t feel great.
Science rocks. I believe in vaccines and I’m not worried. Had this been early on in the pandemic, I’d be worried. I had a friend die of Covid at the beginning of the pandemic and it snapped me to attention quickly.
I locked down rather tightly throughout the worst of the pandemic. I’m grateful I have a job that can easily be done from home. I wore a mask everywhere I went. I still do in many places, but not everywhere. I got my first vaccine shot the moment I could and have had three shots since for a total of four. I feel quite protected.
I’m going to keep this post brief, but I thought I would use my downtime to reflect on some random things that perhaps you’ll find useful.
First, the obvious. Get vaccinated if you have not already. Get the boosters. Trust me that I was rather careful for a long time and had somehow come to the conclusion that I must have done so many things right that I’d never get the virus. Surprise! Unless you stay at home and never leave, you’re going to be exposed to the virus. It’s inevitable.
Of course, I’m assuming you’re reading this from somewhere in the world where you have vaccines readily available on demand. That’s not the case everywhere. Your politics might differ from mine, but I’m thankful every day that President Biden took office and immediately hit the ground running with an aggressive vaccination program. It saved a lot of lives. Who knows, maybe it saved mine.
An interesting thing happened today when I woke up feeling kind of crappy. I had undertaken a personal project to do a certain number of squats and pushups every day and have been sticking to that, not missing a day for a while. It was my way of jumpstarting my commitment to exercise again. But today my body decided otherwise. There was no way I was going to be exercising today unless you count crawling out of bed to get a glass of water as exercise.
This has made me more fully embrace something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Rigid goals and expectations will inevitably disappoint. Going with the flow is indeed wise advice. So it living in the moment. These are lessons I’ve tried to accept as the only way one can navigate through life happily and without constant angst that we’re not living up to our own or others’ expectations.
Objectives are nice to have. Plans are great. They can fall apart in an instant and that’s an important life lesson. I mean, who would have thought before the first wave of the pandemic hit that all of our lives would be so completely upended?
Something else for which I’m grateful right now is my love of books. My Kindle sits alongside my bed. I read every night and often once or more during the day. Now that I’m laid up for a few days, I yet again realize how important books are to me. I am always entertained and always feel like my mind is engaged when I have a book I can read. I can’t emphasize enough that books are the main thing that made me the person I am today and gave me varied successful careers. Books are miracles, scribbles on a page that inform, inspire, and entertain.
Okay, I’m starting to fade. As short as this post is, it was tough to write. Maybe that brain fog thing they talk about with Covid is happening. Or I just feel crappy and want to crawl back into bed. Yes, that’s exactly it. So, I’ll wish you a good day and retreat to my bed.
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