Positive?!%$&*

This month didn’t start out good for us. The hubby got sick and then I got sick. It wasn’t all that bad, just cough, colds and fever. I chalked it up to a regular flu. However a few days after the fever, I realized that I lost my sense of smell and taste. I was cooking the husband’s breakfast when I couldn’t smell what I was making. But I was no longer that sick then, just a few sniffles and cough.

A couple of days after, that was a Thursday, the husband was invited to take an antigen test because one of his clients was sick. The client suspected that he might have COVID, and he wanted his family and close contacts to be tested as well. So the hubby brought me along to avail– and lo and behold! I was reactive. Now the antigen test is not the RT-PCR which is a confirmatory test, merely like a pre-test to check. That threw me off because I thought I just had a regular flu brought on by the weather. (Right now, the country is in summer season with temperatures are kind of higher than usual). So I stayed home and isolated myself. Didn’t go out and basically hibernated.

Only two of us were reactive, the other one was the hubby’s client. But his was a different story because the pain he felt was bad. Like he couldn’t even breathe, had no sense of smell and had intense body malaise. He was almost going to be admitted to the hospital, it was that kind of sickness.

The day after, which was Friday, I had regained my sense of smell although I had no appetite still. I only ate to assuage my hunger and avoid hurting my stomach due to the vitamins I was taking. Like I was loading up on Vitamin C and multivitamins like crazy.

After a week, we took the antigen test again. Because I was feeling totally back to normal I was confident I was no longer reactive. And I wasn’t. So I was back in business. I had missed my baby boy so much. This is what I hated about being isolated because I would be away from the people I loved.

That was my COVID experience. It might not have been properly diagnosed because we didn’t take the RT-PCR test but I realized that this disease is truly manageable if you are a healthy individual. If you exercise regularly and have no co-morbidities, you will get through it although the virus strain could also be a factor. I concluded that I got the virus from my brother’s colleague who was diagnosed positive but asymptomatic. We were both at my mother’s house at the same time and he is the only person I could think of.

To be honest, I’m glad to have gone through it. It made me realize that we have to take care of our health because this virus can hit you anytime, anywhere. You will truly need to maintain physical distance in public, wear a mask everywhere if you can and as much as possible, stay at home!