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I am very, very tired
Feb. 17th, 2022 07:50 pmI am currently feeling exactly as exhausted as I did a few weeks ago, just before collapsing with what tests suggested wasn't actually covid.
I also have the same on and off headaches, brain fog and general malaise. Last lateral flow test was this morning, and was negative (though I have had more contact with people this week than I have done since pre-Omicron this week - half an hour or so unmasked at a coffee morning to remember the former colleague who was killed last week, an hour and a half unmasked in an in-person meeting yesterday, and someone I had a masked meeting with yesterday morning's spouse has just tested positive).
Do I have covid this time? Do I have something else? Am I actually just suffering from Proper Burnout and am back at collapse point after rallying briefly due to sick leave? (I have been managing to stick to 40-hour-ish weeks, though this is awful for my ability to actually keep on top of my inbox and probably doesn't really work well with my tendency to struggle to actually get down to anything major until all of my meetings are out of the way.)
Meanwhile I am stockpiling lateral flow tests in anticipation of the government deciding to stop providing them, and have been being vocal in meetings about thinking that it would be a jolly good idea if the university strongly encouraged people not to come to work with covid, or indeed any kind of infectious illnesses, even if self-isolation is no longer a legal requirement. (I got quite irate with the chair of the health measures advisory group who said we couldn't tell people they had to stay at home, and pointed out that actually, if we employ them, we bloody well can.)
I am working from home tomorrow, and find myself idly thinking that maybe if Storm Eunice knocks out our wifi so I can't make any of my meetings it would be quite nice, really.
I also have the same on and off headaches, brain fog and general malaise. Last lateral flow test was this morning, and was negative (though I have had more contact with people this week than I have done since pre-Omicron this week - half an hour or so unmasked at a coffee morning to remember the former colleague who was killed last week, an hour and a half unmasked in an in-person meeting yesterday, and someone I had a masked meeting with yesterday morning's spouse has just tested positive).
Do I have covid this time? Do I have something else? Am I actually just suffering from Proper Burnout and am back at collapse point after rallying briefly due to sick leave? (I have been managing to stick to 40-hour-ish weeks, though this is awful for my ability to actually keep on top of my inbox and probably doesn't really work well with my tendency to struggle to actually get down to anything major until all of my meetings are out of the way.)
Meanwhile I am stockpiling lateral flow tests in anticipation of the government deciding to stop providing them, and have been being vocal in meetings about thinking that it would be a jolly good idea if the university strongly encouraged people not to come to work with covid, or indeed any kind of infectious illnesses, even if self-isolation is no longer a legal requirement. (I got quite irate with the chair of the health measures advisory group who said we couldn't tell people they had to stay at home, and pointed out that actually, if we employ them, we bloody well can.)
I am working from home tomorrow, and find myself idly thinking that maybe if Storm Eunice knocks out our wifi so I can't make any of my meetings it would be quite nice, really.
