Silver Linings!
I coached one of my daughter’s netball teams on Friday afternoon and started to feel quite fatigued. It had been a big week, a big day and I didn’t think too much of it until I got home, and my bones started to ache, fever started and then some gastro symptoms.
At first, I thought it might have been something I ate, but I prepare most of my own food and no one else in the house was sick. I went down hill very fast and was in bed by 7pm. I tossed and turned-on Friday night and by Saturday I was aching all over, my head was pounding, I had an unquenchable thirst and no appetite and here I stayed until Sunday lunchtime.
The only other time I had been like this – I had COVID as well. I kept testing though and it kept saying negative! Miss J had been briefly sick a week earlier and I had diligently tested her with negative results.
So I battled through it with my mind running wild, my body aching from top to toe and the fever sending me delirious. I couldn’t read, couldn’t watch TV and could barely (but I managed) do my morning routine. I focused my meditations on fighting off the illness(whatever it might be) and used positive affirmations. By Sunday lunchtime I made it out of bed and to the lounge and started to feel a little better. By evening I had helped with dinner and watched a family movie. Then hoping for some sleep (which had been elusive all weekend) I went to bed early and decided to do my fifth COVID test in three days – this time it lit up like a Christmas tree! Bugger it – starting to feel better and now I need to isolate (I know I don’t have to – but I will not knowingly give anyone this disgusting virus, that is simply not good form!).
I sweated the virus out overnight and woke up with my nose clear and my fever gone. I still have aching bones and a head cold but I am so much better.
How amazing are our bodies?
Nurture them and they will protect us. They really are miracles. To fight off this virus that has killed so many. I can see how COVID can kill. It really is so different to other viruses. This lingering metallic taste in my mouth makes me feel like this virus really is something different. Almost alien. I am strong and healthy but this virus has knocked me off my feet three times now.
I’m disappointed to miss the final netball game of the season for the Premier League teams I coach and the pizza picnic and dinner. I’m sad to miss the Moulin Rouge matinee with my daughter. I’m sad to miss my Merry Christmas dinner with my older daughter who is heading to Antarctica for the holidays (yes I know WOW!). However, I’m focusing on my amazing body being able to expel the worst of this disgusting virus in a weekend. That the test (FINALLY) worked, and I can take myself away from infecting others (especially my Mother In Law who just had hip surgery) and that by Christmas all will be well. Silver Linings! There really is always a bright side!
