I’ve managed to avoid it for 2.5 years but as we are repeatedly told by both “experts” and experts, no one escapes the Ohm.
I played a local gig Tuesday and felt an extraordinary amount of fatigue when I got home. Not the normal post-gig fatigue that I have come to expect and that has gotten progressively worse after I turned 65. This was a bone crushing heaviness I had not experienced before. I slept eight hours at a stretch - an unheard of feat - and felt even more fatigued when I woke up. I managed to gulp down a coffee which didn't do bupkiss. For the rest of the day I “worked” on a recording but the whole day felt like I was moving through molasses. My thinking also slowed down to a crawl…which would normally be a good thing, but it didn't feel good. When my wife got home she informed me that I looked like shit. “Do you have fever?” “I don’t know, since the thermometer is busted, but I do have *something* “
Diane popped out to Walgreens to buy a thermometer. The problem with my wife “popping out” for one item is that she usually returns with five additional, completely unrelated purchases, such as plants, picture frames, shampoo and cat food, for example. This time she came back with a new thermometer, some mascara, pajama pants and two magazines. And ice cream, if I recall. Most importantly, she also brought a Covid test. I am against Covid testing in principle because if I have a sore throat and a cough, giving it a name doesn't make me feel better. I mean, I've probably had the flu dozens of times and never knew if it was the H1N1 or the QFTZdn5. Diane insisted I test because she works for a lady who's even older than us (she's 94) and definitely much more paranoid. So I performed the deep nasal penetration, dipped the cotton swab in the mystery fluid provided, and put a drop on the tester. Voila! Pregnancy test positive. A miracle!
That was Wednesday. It's Saturday afternoon now. I've been swallowing Ivermectin, Hydroxy Chloroquine and Doxycycline, as per my Covid shaman's instructions. Also vitamins, Zinc and various other concoctions and horse pastes. I have no fever, just a bit of a cough and my throat is as sore as a MOFO. I'm not sure any of the above meds are doing anything but I do know Advil helps the throat which smarts worse than the devil’s horn!
The fatigue is almost completely gone, slowly being replaced by my normal daily anxiety and existential dread. Simply put: if you've ever had the flu or any kind of mild(ish) respiratory illness, you'll know what we destroyed the western world for. Not a stupid guy, that Chairman Xi!
Glad to hear you’re doing well. The best thing we have found (probably past the key point for you now) is just the saline nasal rinse w a bit of hydrogen peroxide (per Dr David McCullough and others). Whenever we feel a tinge of anything we do that and it’s just gone. They knew in 2021 that these rinses reduced viral load by 94% in the nasal cavity where it gains its foothold but they quashed the study of course.
My thoughts exactly, when I had the RO a few months ago.
This is what we destroyed the world for????