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

[nineveh_uk]

If you spent most of yesterday dozing and half today in bed, you are not fit to work tomorrow whatever you have. Take at least tomorrow off, and I'd think Thursday, too.

My diary from spring 2020 is full of "I didn't feel quite so terrible today! Clearly I am fit to work all day tomorrow!!!" As you can imagine, I regret these choices. Don't make the mistake of pushing through it. If it is flu, you'll feel crap and delay your recovery. If it is Covid, you'll feel crap, delay your recovery, and risk seriously prolonging the period you are unwell even if just by a couple of weeks.

[white_hart]

I decided that I would take today off. I feel better than I did but a long way from normal, and actually trying to do anything more than reading/watching TV is still incredibly tiring.