Connecting the Dots(mini)...with Covid (SARS-CoV-2 virus)

In this episode I dive into a personal health update—my first bout with COVID-19. Discover how I navigated the symptoms, testing protocols, and the importance of being cautious, all with my dog Zeke by my side.

Transcript

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Week 25 of connecting with people since I turned 49. And well, this week I connected with COVID. Yeah, COVID.

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Oh, and we don't need that anymore, buddy. I tested negative. We can take that off. This is my little Zeke. He's been my companion this week. He usually goes everywhere with me and so this week I didn't go anywhere. So he's not been anywhere. Well, we've been running. I took him running. I'm negative again now. So we've been to Bunnings today and stuff like that. Oh, it was negative yesterday too. So I didn't I didn't test negative and bolt for the door. But yeah, so this week I caught COVID. I, I was in Hobart for the weekend last weekend and I came back from Hobart, went to running speed session and I just, I felt off, like I woke up and went, Oh, I mustn't have slept well. And it was one kilometre repeats and we did the first one kilometre at what the coach said to do it for, which was fast and I did it, but it just, I went, Oh, that's, that's hard work. And then we hit the second one and I was just like, Oh, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not right. Like we just, you know, when they're just, and I said to coach, I don't know, maybe I've caught a flu or something. And I went to work and I just, I wasn't sniffly or anything. I was just, You know, fatigued, I guess. And then I, the rapid deterioration happened. And and so by about 10 or 11 at work, I went, Oh, I'm going to go home. I think I'm coming down with something. And then it occurred to me, I had those, those tests that have got the influenza A and B as well. And so I thought I'll, I'll do one of them because it'll, I might have the flu or getting the flu and, and it came up COVID and I had that moment. I've never had COVID. So, cause I had all of the shots at the time. I had to work for someone, right? And so I had COVID. So I've been testing every day. And then I think on Friday I tested, was the first day I tested negative and I was like, oh great, but it was an older test. So I did another test positive and I thought, oh well, I'll do another one just to see which positive. And then on Saturday I tested negative. I tested a few times and and, and look, I've, I know that people have said, hey, you don't need to do all of that testing. You just need to test five days. You know, they're like, there's, I think there's a few different things where you wear masks, stuff like that. And I just. You know, I, my, my dad's in his seventies. He comes to work. I see him a lot. I just, I didn't want to, I wanted to be cautious and I, you know, that's, I get to, I get to choose that and and that's how I played it. So, I waited until I was negative. My running, I still did my run streak, but I was running locally around home here and there's no one where I don't pass anyone. So I was really cautious. I didn't want to pass on COVID to anyone. So it was just, it was just me and dog this week. Wasn't it? So that's my week. That's why there's no one other than Doggo sitting in the chair this week. I did have someone planned, but again, I just, I, you know, I said to them, Hey, I've got COVID and you know, so we pushed it to next week and and then tomorrow I'll get up and plan out the next few weeks and go from there. I didn't want it to be one of those projects where I was. You know, I could have done a remote with somebody, but I was also recovering. It, you know, it was flu like symptoms with extra tiredness. I was like, nah, I'll just do a little video with Doggo and talk about my COVID, my first COVID experience. So yeah, connecting the dots, connecting the dots. Week 25 and this week I connected with COVID and that's my story this week. See you next week. I've got a pretty cool lawyer coming next week. Criminal lawyer.