Listen to the Rain

Cough, hack, wheeze.

On Friday I started feeling a bit bad. That night I had a slight fever and chills--I went to cuddle with sashagee because I felt cold and in her sleep she pulled away saying I was too warm--and then the next day I still wasn't feeling well so sashagee and Laila had to go to Indiana to visit her relatives alone. I had a headache, sore throat, and fatigue for the weekend but no other symptoms until about Monday night, where I started to get the sniffles. At no point did I ever lose my taste or smell, but I was still worried that it was more than just a cold because I had heard that omicron had more standard cold-like symptoms than previous variants, and yesterday the test I took on Monday came back positive. I would have taken a rapid test but they were literally sold out everywhere in the city.

sashagee apologized for just assuming I had a "man-cold" after the results came back.

B"H sashagee both seem okay for now. Laila was laughing and smiling when I woke up this morning and is now down for a nap, and while it's hard to tell with babies, she hasn't displayed any signs of being sick--no fever, no extra fussiness, no sneezing or coughing, no weirdness about food (if her smell/taste were affected I figure she wouldn't eat or something). We're keeping an eye on her and sashagee is very worried but so far she seems safe.

I feel mostly on the mend but obviously this ruins all my plans for this week. Yesterday was my mother's birthday and we originally were going to go out to visit my parents but obviously that's not happening, and barring a miracle we probably won't be able to go see sashagee's family on Christmas either. I'm still feeling on the mend, so hopefully that continues and I have no lasting aftereffects!