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Mar. 17th, 2020 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21 I am okay? Mostly. I was very freaked out last week when there was a lot of uncertainty about what was going to happen, but now that things are shut down and I'm working from home and I don't need to leave the house, I am calmer.
This weekend was pretty rough, though, since I started running a fever (which I almost never do- my immune system just doesn't respond that way) and coughing, but wasn't congested or anything. That was scary. But, I was breathing fine, so it wasn't an emergency, and so the Health Department said to call my PCP. My PCP's office isn't setting in-person appointments at the moment, so I had to message my doctor, who told me that I'd be considered very low risk at the moment for contracting COVID-19, since I haven't been travelling or in contact with anyone who's sick, as far as I know. So, no testing, because they're only testing people who have been knowingly exposed or are bad enough to be in the hospital. Because there aren't enough tests. Because our federal government is fucking stupid (However, I'm very pleased with my state government's response which was to start shutting it down days before anyone else really was, including places that have many more confirmed cases than we do). Anyway.
I've mostly stopped coughing, fortunately. I'm still slightly feverish (for levels of feverish that correspond with my individual body- it was 99.5 earlier), but I don't feel terrible. Mom figures I might have a really mild case of the flu or some other random virus. I'm still staying put and not seeing anyone for awhile, just in case, but I'm pretty sure I'd be getting worse instead of better so quickly if I had COVID-19.
I don't really have a problem with staying home- I'm a homebody anyway. I don't really like working from home, because I like keeping home life and work life separate, but I really don't do anything on a regular basis that I can't do anywhere that has a working internet connection, so it's not a really big deal. I'm also very good at being my own company- I always have been- and just fine with virtual company. Most of my friends are pocket friends at the moment, anyway. So, I'm in a better place than a lot of other people. I feel much safer here in my apartment by myself. I imagine I will get cabin fever eventually, but I'll deal.
So, that's what we got here in Ohio. Could be worse.
This weekend was pretty rough, though, since I started running a fever (which I almost never do- my immune system just doesn't respond that way) and coughing, but wasn't congested or anything. That was scary. But, I was breathing fine, so it wasn't an emergency, and so the Health Department said to call my PCP. My PCP's office isn't setting in-person appointments at the moment, so I had to message my doctor, who told me that I'd be considered very low risk at the moment for contracting COVID-19, since I haven't been travelling or in contact with anyone who's sick, as far as I know. So, no testing, because they're only testing people who have been knowingly exposed or are bad enough to be in the hospital. Because there aren't enough tests. Because our federal government is fucking stupid (However, I'm very pleased with my state government's response which was to start shutting it down days before anyone else really was, including places that have many more confirmed cases than we do). Anyway.
I've mostly stopped coughing, fortunately. I'm still slightly feverish (for levels of feverish that correspond with my individual body- it was 99.5 earlier), but I don't feel terrible. Mom figures I might have a really mild case of the flu or some other random virus. I'm still staying put and not seeing anyone for awhile, just in case, but I'm pretty sure I'd be getting worse instead of better so quickly if I had COVID-19.
I don't really have a problem with staying home- I'm a homebody anyway. I don't really like working from home, because I like keeping home life and work life separate, but I really don't do anything on a regular basis that I can't do anywhere that has a working internet connection, so it's not a really big deal. I'm also very good at being my own company- I always have been- and just fine with virtual company. Most of my friends are pocket friends at the moment, anyway. So, I'm in a better place than a lot of other people. I feel much safer here in my apartment by myself. I imagine I will get cabin fever eventually, but I'll deal.
So, that's what we got here in Ohio. Could be worse.