State of the Hart

[white_hart]

Lateral flow tests still negative. I also ordered a postal PCR test yesterday after I found myself wondering if my expensive Dorset Cereals muesli always tasted like sawdust and I'd never noticed it, but I'm not actually expecting it to come back positive.

I didn't get up until about 4pm yesterday, after spending most of the day dozing. At about 10am the postman rang the doorbell with a parcel of fabric, which T brought upstairs and put next to me on the bed, where it lay until about 1pm when I finally managed to summon the energy to open it.

Today when T brought another parcel of fabric upstairs I opened it straight away, and was able to get up at lunchtime and sit on the sofa without a quilt over me. I am taking this as a sign that things are moving in the direction, though I have a tightness around the chest which I didn't have yesterday.

I'm not sure whether I should try to work from home tomorrow or take another day off. At the moment doing almost anything at all seems to leave me feeling wiped out, so maybe I should take another day even if that feels like indulgence rather than risk tiring myself out by trying to work?

Comments

[coughingbear]

Really glad to read you are taking today off, and strongly of the view that others have expressed about taking it very carefully and very possibly having tomorrow/the day after off too, or at most doing half a day. I had Covid over Christmas, when at least we were closed so I didn't have the 'should I work?' dance, and kept thinking I was definitely feeling better - which I was - then doing one thing, and not a very tiring thing, like hanging up a wash, and having to have a nap to recover.

[white_hart]

I think you're right. I got up at lunchtime today (I might have got up earlier but our boiler was being serviced so I hid in bed) thinking that I felt much better and would definitely be up to working tomorrow, and then by the time I'd heated up some leftovers for lunch and sat down on the sofa with them I felt awful again and spent the afternoon huddled under a quilt watching Hamilton.