I woke up around 4:00am, had some water and some meds and went back to sleep.

Woke up at 8:00am, had some water and some meds and some breakfast and went back to bed.

Woke up at 12:00pm, had some water and some meds, had a kids meal from Chilies via DoorDash for lunch, did the dishes, scooped the litter box, topped off the cats food and water bowls… and I am thinking about going back to sleep. I’m thinking of having a little more water first. I still have five minutes to wait before I am cleared to drink anything. After that I might take another nap. Or, I might just watch TV for a while and see how things go.

I am definitely feeling like crap today, but being exhausted is the biggest symptom right now. Maybe I’ll be able to sleep it off a little. We’ll see.

I woke up at about quarter to four in the am after getting maybe four and a half to five hours of sleep. I was dead tired when I went to bed at about 11:00 last night and I was hoping I’d sleep through until my alarm went off at 8:00am but no luck. I got up a few minutes ago thinking I’d have some water and take my morning vitamins and some Tylenol. I might take my temperature too as I feel a little feverish. I don’t need to, I am just curious about numbers the way a good Programmer/Analyst is always curious about stats and figures. You know how it is.

I will take my second Paxlovid dose at 8:00am today (hence my 8:00am alarm clock). I’ll take the first dose of the cough suppressant whose name escapes me right now as well. Jen has the same prescription. I made one gastric bypass mistake last night and it probably affected my night’s sleep. I’m taking Tylenol for the fever. I was clear for a final dose of the day at 9:00pm last night, but in order to have a drink and take the meds I needed to stop eating by 8:00pm. I need to wait an hour after eating before I can have a drink. I never want to go to bed with an empty stomach, and I had a drink with the Paxlovid. I finished eight ounces of water at 8:15, waited 15 minutes (I only have to wait 15 minutes after a drink to have something to eat) and started filling up my stomach at 8:30. I didn’t even think of the Tylenol until after 10:00. I tried to wait an hour before going to sleep, but after about 25-30 minutes I was toast and just gave up and let myself conk out. I’ll try to do better tonight… dumbass.

Okay. I am so tired I am having trouble focusing my eyes on the computer screen. I think I am going to go back to bed and see what happens. Welcome to day three, everyone! How exciting!

I just took my first dose of Paxlovid. Bring on the crappy side effects and the chance of a back slide into a second bought with The ‘Rona.

I also have an inhaler to use if I start wheezing or have trouble breathing, and a cough medicine. I’ll start the second one in the morning. The inhaler I hopefully will never have to use.

My wife seems to be a tiny bit better today. We were just talking about it and she’s hoping to be able to go back to work in a limited capacity in a couple of days. I am looking at Friday as hopefully the day I can at least sit at my desk and respond to email. We’ll have to see.

My primary care doctor came through with some prescriptions, including Paxlovid. My wife has been taking it for a couple of days and the side effects are kinda gross, but if it makes Covid easier to deal with then I’ll give it a shot.

I talked to my father for the first time since we came home and gave him the story of the Disney Fail. He’s concerned but we’re both okay. No worries here.

We have been living in instacart/doordash world since we got home from Florida. The theme so far has been breakfast. Not breakfast for breakfast, but breakfast for lunch and breakfast for dinner. We’re eating breakfast for dinner as I type this. Scrambled eggs and bacon. Good stuff.

I’m not just sure, I’m Covid-19 positive.

With sincere apologies to South Park for paraphrasing one of their most brutally offensive, yet absolutely brilliant jokes.

Dig what I just did:

Also, dig what else I just did (sorry it’s a little blurry):

I think I will call my doctor and the weight loss clinic and just ask for advice on what to do. Maybe I’ll ask for a Paxlovid prescription, I don’t know. I should send a message to my boss too and tell him not to expect me back tomorrow.

Shit. Three and a half years I successfully avoided this Covid-19 ass munch and now here I am with a positive test.

Calling it a positive test makes it sound good, doesn’t it? It makes it sound like it’s a positive thing and not a negative thing. I think we need to tweak the terminology and come up with something new. Call it a blurble test or a non-blurble test. Something like that. We’ll see if I can make that happen. I’ll let you know.

My music projects are on hold. I might just mark them as fails but I also might just extend the deadlines. They are all goofy B.S. anyway so I can really do whatever I want with them, right? I was going to go out shooting photos today but I was self quarantined even before I started feeling sick, so that was basically off the table too.

Nope, as of right now (4:09am on Tuesday September 19, 2023) my only creative outlet is… you guessed it… Live Blogging Whatever the Hell this Bug I Caught Is! Yes! Bring on the blog posts! Bring on the photos of trash barrels full of used tissues and bottles of Tylenol! This is going to be so much fun! Just Ace reporting/personal blogging at it’s most dramatic! I bet you can’t wait, oh my readers and only friends*!

I have declared that 9/18/23 is officially Day One of this illness, though I really should have declared it day zero. I am a computer science nerd, and we start counting at zero, not one. I figured I’d make it all make sense for non computer science geeks though and started counting at one. That makes today Day Two, hence the title of the post. Can you dig it? I knew that you could.

I went to bed a few minutes before 11:00pm last night. Jen is in our bed and I am on the couch. We both need to spread out so even though it absolutely blows chunks that we’re not in bed together, it will probably help us both sleep more. I was freezing cold. I had two heavy-ish blankets on and I was thinking of turning on the heat, even though my father would have been offended by that happening in September. I took some Tylenol just before bed because I was thinking I will likely develop a fever at some point, assuming this is Covid, of course. I thought I’d be preemptive. I woke up at 3:30 to go to the bathroom. I got back onto the couch and bundled up but within a couple of minutes I was roasting hot. I kicked off the blankets but couldn’t get myself to fall asleep.

I need to get up early this morning to bring the trash out to the street. I would have done it last night but it poured rain all day and I couldn’t bring myself to go outside and get hosed down. I feel like it’s too early to go outside and do it now so I have an alarm set for 6:00am. Will I sleep again between now and then? Who knows. I did sort of start my daily routine. I’ve had eight ounces of water and my morning vitamins, along with another dose of Tylenol. I’m starting to feel chilly again. I think I am going to post this and then lay down.

I can tell by the looks on all of your faces that you are utterly fascinated by all of this. I’m sure you can’t freakin’ stand the anticipation building up for today’s Covid-19 home test #2. You can cut the tension with a knife around here!

Okay, folks. That’s it for now. It’s 4:20am (he he he) and I am hitting the publish button. Talk to you all later today.

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*To borrow a phrase from Anthony Burgess’ novel, “A Clockwork Orange”, of course.