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Doing much better. I was actually getting better a month ago. My wife got it a few days after I did, but she had milder symptoms. Sorry, thought I mentioned that. We have been in tight quarantine just because we can be. Mail and packages sit unopened for several days. Shopping is by internet with no contact pickup. The food sits in the back of the truck for several days, except for things that need refrigeration. Those get wiped down with vinegar.

I am afraid I don't remember if you got tested or now.
Did you get either a test or an antibody test?

I'm not being quite that careful because I don't think I need to be.
Nobody around here has it, nobody knows anybody that has had it, the hospital has had a few cases and probably a few deaths, but it aint like it's "something that's going around" and everybody's getting it.
Y'know?
It's dangerous still but I'm hoping the curve remains flat in my little town.

My brother and his wife have been here twice to deliver groceries and I've had a handful of physical therapy people here and a wheelchair specialist. I haven't taken any special precautions and most were happy I asked them to remove their masks. I'm pretty deaf and even with my hearing aids I've gotta see your mouth before I can tell what you're saying.

They say it's a problem everywhere, nobody knows what anybody's saying so everybody's pulling their masks aside to be understood.
First thing they do when they walk in is ask how you feel and take your temperature.

Did you know that it takes 16-20 weeks for Medicare to approve a wheelchair? I needed this wheelchair last October. I'm a stubborn stubborn man and by the time I admitted I couldn't walk I really couldn't walk. I'm still doing it but these legs are trying to kill me.

Yes, but the test didn't pickup any virus. That was the very first day of testing by my health care provider, and I was already feeling a bit better. So it's quite possible there was no virus left in my nose. Early on PCR tests were running 30-40% false negatives. They have to really dig in to get a good sample. Now they say if the patient isn't crying, you didn't go far enough in.

I had some symptoms the doc thought were not Covid-19 at the time. Now we know better. My symptoms were a common set for some patients.

No antibody test so far. If they want me for this study, I think that would be the first thing they do.

ArcPoint Labs in Santa Fe Springs did my antibody test and I think it returned a false negative. I really have had pneumonia, flu, bronchitis quite a few times in the last decade or so and what I went through was unlike anything I've ever had in my entire life.

I am not prepared to spend another eighty-five bucks to get another test though. I am not broke but we can use the money for other stuff, and I am still following all the precautions and staying home other than to go to the gas station where I get everything through the window with gloves and a mask on, and I am wiping stuff down before opening anything.

In order for my badly screwed up nose to let me breathe at night, I have to jam my nose drops on a cotton swab almost all the way back to my naso-pharynx anyway, so I know of what they speak when they talk about how uncomfortable the swab test is.

I don't have a sleep apnea airway constriction problem, I have a nose problem! My nose hates me.

My wife of 35 years is scared to death of this virus. She broke down last night trying to describe her feelings. She has a permanent trache as a result of a combination of a congenital condition, a lifetime of bronchial problems and a botched intubation. She has been on a ventilator three times and has PTSD as a result of those experiences, experiencing all the post-ICU conditions described in medical journals. Her greatest fear is being ventilated and alone and never wants to go through that again. That is why I have such a low tolerance for Covidiots who deny the seriousness of this and risk other people's lives to score political points. [censored] them all with a broomstick. They are the lowest form of semi-life on earth in my book. And that includes the current White-wash House occupant.

Tell her she's not alone. I am terrified I might kill my whole family.

Broomstick is too good for them. Try this two by four.

When I see morons out protesting the lockdown that has saved millions of lives, I just want the National Guard to go there and machine gun them.

Apparently some countries are treating covidiots pretty harshly.
Sad to see but it does seem to work.