COVID-ery

[muninnhuginn]

Interesting links:

• The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them by Erin Bromage
• Johnson’s message is very deliberate and very dangerous: here’s how to combat it by Jon Alexander

And personally. Got happily through three weeks back at work, getting my daily--lengthening brisker--walk. Last Tuesday, I crashed. I hit such  extreme exhaustion on Tuesday afternoon, I couldn't stay upright. Went to bed after an early lunch and didn't get up again until suppertime. Was apparently snoring. The lead-filled lungs were back. In the small hours of the morning, I was finding breathing hard. Felt as if I was trying to recover from a sprint race. Considered calling for medical advice, didn't in the end (mainly as I fell asleep again whilst considering what to do). Gradually felt better over the next few days, but was unable to work. Cut to yesterday, and I crashed again. So tired by midday and went to bed about 2.00 pm, didn't surface properly until five. Still knackered today. Letting the hens out made me breathless.

Comments

[anef]

This sounds frustrating, and also concerning - how are you going to know when you're finally better? I hope you feel better soon, without relapses.

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you. I assume the good bits will lengthen (the fortnight I felt better, I really was better, apart from having to build up stamina having not exercised for a while) and the bad bits get less bad... until they disappear, but who knows? We've not dealt with this virus before.

I managed to get some work done yesterday, and didn't fall asleep at lunchtime. An improvement already.

[hilarita]

Please take it easy. It seems very difficult to shake it off fully.

And the Jon Alexander link is very useful, and also very depressing.

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you.

[tamaranth]

I have no idea whether mine is virus-related or not, but I am randomly crushed by terrible fatigue (the 'curl up on the window seat and wake up 3 hours later' or 'if I sit upright I'm going to pass out' variety): plus broken sleep cycle, in which I wake every morning between 4:30 and 4:45, and it takes a while to get back to sleep which is not good with a theoretical 8am WFH start.
Have promised myself today that I will not fall asleep on the sofa after lunch.
Have also promised myself I will go out amongst the plague vectors, for I have run out of cheese.

Best wishes, and I hope your employers are being sensible and sympathetic!

[muninnhuginn]

Fatigue's just horrid, isn't it? Sending my sympathies.

I'm very fortunate in being able to work from home, on voluntarily reduced hours, with not a great deal of pressure. Yes, I do like my employer. And yesterday, I didn't fall asleep in the afternoon.