Coughing isn’t fun

No one needs to listen to me whine, which is all I have felt like. Also explains why I am not bothering to send out mass emails.

It all started perhaps on Saturday night, but certainly by Sunday I wasn’t feeling all that great. By Tuesday I recognized that 1) I was worse rather than better & 2) nothing was going to be open on Wednesday short of driving into the SFVA. Please, no thanks.  Hoping to get better is not a treatment plan. Running a fever of 38.8*C is not a particularly good thing, especially within a week of getting Rituximab. (Did I mention that George “forgets” to wear a mask in a lot of locations?)

Anyway – it was Tuesday and I went to see the nice acute care folks at the Oakland VA Outpatient clinic. I got swabbed, blood drawn, a bunch of scriptws and would have had a chest x-ray had they had a tech. The doc and I agreed that it wasn’t ikely to change my treatment and I really didn’t want to drive into SF or to Martinez.

I go home. take fist fulls of  tablets and capsule and force fluids.

I survive Wednesday- no way am I going anywhere. Sorry to miss Menorah lighting with the grandkids, but if they don’t have this crud, they don’t need it.

Thursday George finally decides he need to be seen. I manage to crawl through a number of errands (Bank, post office, grocery story, pharmacy) and finally get home. Call from Dr N with lab results. High white count, cultures so far negative, RSV neg, Influenza neg. Covid +. Yes, that is right. It probably doesn’t matter that I am meticulous about masks outs – when the other people in your household aren’t –  it doesn’t matter. George tested neg at his appoint, but got sick 2-3 days earlier.

So here I am. Gradually feeling better, not pushing the activity. and making sure I am not around anyone else till at least 5 days from Tuesday.

In better news – I am about 80% done with my last WIP. It was a new start a few days ago – actually being done off a paper chart.  The only project that will carry over is the Secret Grove SAL of which 3 parts (done) have been released out of 10. That is it…. I don’t think I am ever going to have a ton of partially completed cross stitch projects again – one hand full is more than enough….