The Two Most Frustrating Parts of the Last Week with COVID-19

Tomorrow will be a week since I tested positive, but 10 days since I started feeling symptoms of covid 19.

And you know what? I feel about 90% better! My only areas of improvement right now are I’m still pretty lethargic and get tired easily, and I still have no sense of smell or taste. Weirdly, that’s probably been the biggest annoyance of this whole thing. Once I got over the fever (that only lasted about three days) and the aches and chills, the lingering side effects of no taste or smell have been the most frustrating parts.

I told this to my sister who reminded me, ever so nicely, that people are dying every day from covid and that I have it easy, to which I replied, of course. Absolutely. Things have been horrifyingly life-changing for so many because of this virus and I would in no way ever play down that fact. I am speaking only on my personal experience with this virus, one that I chose to get vaccinated against months ago in order to protect myself and my family, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am that we chose to get those two shots at the beginning of summer. I know I sound like a broken record, but I can’t imagine how much worse this whole ordeal would be if I wasn’t vaccinated.

So at the moment I am counting the days until I can smell and taste again and feeling grateful for how quickly I am recovering. It’s funny how quickly you miss things you take for granted every day. And of course we take smelling scents and tasting food for granted! They’re like blinking for most of us. But when they’re gone, they leave a big empty space where a sense of normal life used to be.

If you’re going through these same frustrating, annoying and peculiar symptoms too, let’s go through it together, shall we?

PS: how sweet is sis helping me bring in the chicken noodle soup my mom made for us last week?