I'm so very tired

But other than that, I'm finally feeling a lot better.

I haven't gotten anything done today, no gardening or music or anything but sleep. I even slept through #SciFiChat.

I'm really bored with this. But at least while I'm sleeping, I don't notice how bored I am.

So, let's see. I never had a reduction of taste or smell (though it occurs to me that with the Paxlovid that might have seemed a temporary blessing). I did have trouble breathing, and took my rescue inhaler a lot and thanked all the powers that I have a CPAP machine. I certainly had brain fog (leading to a chat with a friend where I talked about being incompetent, and he very kindly said he could imagine me incapacitated, but not incompetent). I did have reduction of appetite, but that started before the Paxlovid and ended after, so I'm hoping it was just the horrible taste and not some more serious side effect of either the virus or the medication.

Right now, the allergies seem less severe than they normally are, and allergies are immune-system-overreactions (to over-simplify). On the one hand, it is letting me not take my usual allergy meds as much as usual, which I think is a good thing, since my body seems to be trying to flush out the virus particles and paxlovid as fast as possible. On the other hand, it's worrisome, since a strong immune system matters, unless I want to be living even more in a bubble than I have been since this stupid pandemic started.

On the better side of things, apparently I didn't forget the new bass parts I was working on. I didn't get better at them either, but no practice is no practice regardless of the reason, so that's not unexpected. But I had days where I was not even hearing them in my head, and had no energy to play them on the guitar, and that was upsetting while it lasted.

I did manage one thing today. I made it official that I'm not going in to Chicago to hang out with my sister and daughter this weekend; the plan had been recording tomorrow and relaxing with family Sunday. But right now the normally pleasant drive to Chicago sounds totally exhausting, and I really don't need to expose myself to their animals and dust and everything either. So it will be a quiet Mother's Day, with lots of sleep and maybe some music, and no running around taking photographs or chatting and arting. (And no Himshikar take-out either.)

I guess I'll sign off here and see if I have enough energy to do a little music, or if I just end up falling back in bed. At least it's still a wonderful, comfortable new bed. I guess a gal's gotta count her blessings where she can.

Ugh!

I was starting to feel better (and some symptoms are still better--less brain fog and less sharp pain in the throat, in particular, and the "sounds productive" cough is actually productive, which removes some of the wee beasties from my system, which is good). But my nose is running and itching and (worse) I got a message from a friend whose husband and I and the rest of the local housefilk group spent the evening with on Saturday that both of them tested positive for Covid. (I e-mailed everyone in the group right away.)

So I tested, and when My Angel (who was shopping when I got the message) got home she tested, and we're both positive. I managed to reach my doc right before 5, so I'm already on Paxlovid; My Angel will have to call her doc tomorrow morning.

This is worrying me, with my doc having just said he wants to do an immune system panel. And I can't argue with that intent; I've had this stupid cycle of catching more respiratory viruses than most people (and I do get the flu shot), being sicker than most people for longer when I get them, and almost always follow that up with a sinus or bronchial infection, for decades now. My previous allergist sent me to get an MRI of my sinuses quite a while ago to see if there was a structural issue, but that came back normal. This allergist sent me for an ENT consult last year; the nice lady didn't see any reason I'd get more infections than most people (and also confirmed I had no nodules or anything worrysome on my vocal chords). So this seems like a reasonable next step to see if there's something behind it besides my asthma and alllergies.

But if I do have some kind of immune system issue besides the allergies, that would make covid more worrisome than it ought to me. I don't even know, logically, how much more to worry about my chances of having a serious case of Covid or getting Long Covid than your average person. Though I do know that women with conditions like asthma and diabetes are more likely to get the Long Covid.

I'm also upset over the timing--I have an appointment to do more recording the day before Mother's Day (and then a nice chance to hang with my sister and daughter the day afterward, and this could very easily screw that up. I won't go if I'm testing positive the day before, or if my voice and energy level are messed up, or if the folks at Ravenslake want more time between active Covid and coming to sing whatever germs I might still have all over their space. I wouldn't blame them at all if they want to put it off a few weeks.

Oh, well, more time to work on bass parts, autoharp parts, vocals, and the like. If I'm not too sick to do any of that, of course.

At least the pharmacy was able to fill the Paxlovid prescription today. I can already taste it. More ugh!