I have COVID right now: hour-by-hour account of my decent

This has been … not fun, to say the least.

Since testing positive for COVID, I’ve been out of bed for a grand total of about 30–40 minutes per day and spend most of my time just … staring.

Staring out the window, starting at my phone occasionally, but mostly just staring at nothing. Until this point, that’s all I’ve really had the energy to do.

A shade above catatonic, I tried watching the movie Tenet on my laptop and it simply wasn’t holding my attention. I was bored, and boredom is not a good place for me. So I got to writing this blow-by-blow of how the disease absolutely crushed me over the course of a few days.

Let’s start at the start.

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Friday

10 p.m.: It’s been a very long day. It’s my kids’ competitive sports tryout week and, if you have kids in competitive sports, you know how deeply draining this experience is.

Somehow I’ve managed to get myself to the gym and back, but I’ve now developed the slightest scratchy throat. Hmm. I did turn the heat on a couple days this week, maybe it’s the dry air.

Saturday

12 a.m.— 10 a.m.: Unconscious.