Now in the ER
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Started to shake a cioiple hours ago. Don’t feel bad, just shaking like a leaf. Temp is 102 but don’t feel bad. Did the swab and now we Waite.
Please no prayers, might cause a lighting to hit this place.
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Sorry to hear, but as you requested--no prayers. 
for whatever got a hold of you. 
Good vibes, maybe? Know there are people who care
Glad you’re getting checked out. Want you to be good and well, SafeinOhio.
Just PM me ...I can give you my cell number...
Wrong Lockdown.. hahaha
Sending healing vibes.
NorCal, about 45 miles DIRECTLY east of the so called "first community spread case" in California BUT, here's the thing...I started symptoms on DECEMBER 28TH 2019! It began with a tickle in the back of my throat which quickly developed what I thought was a Strep Throat. I can recall the EXACT day because I was on the phone with a client when it began. The headache that actually throbbed, ie, felt like I was being whacked over the head with a titanium tennis racket that MATCHED my pulse. Do I need to talk about the body aches? the ones that feel like you mixed it up with a band of PISSED OFF PYGMIES who decided that you were the absolutely PERFECT size, weight & look for them to try out their newly acquired Muay Thai & Capoiera skills.
& Oh, did I tell you my chest felt like I was DEAD LIFTING an 800 lb GORILLA steel belted to my chest, filled with the hottest plasma scorching everything with EVERY BREATH I tried to take, for ALL of Jan & most of FEB! I sleep on my stomach, always have BUT my chest was LITERALLY too sore for me to touch or sleep the way I normally sleep. I COULDN'T sleep on my left side., (can't sleep on my right side because of SEVERE chemo related Complex Regional Pain Syndrome...lucky me
) & for DAMN sure I couldn't sleep on my back because, even without Cap'n Drump's, I 've only been able to sleep on on my back when forced to, think HOSPITALISATION & then there's that DROWNING in my own lungs, so...for the better part of almost 3 months, I had to sleep almost sitting up. ALL of these symptoms held on for at least 2 .5 months...FULL strength! I still have fatigue like nobody's business.
The Hubs got sick too BUT I have an autoimmune disease, Sarcoidosis & although I have cutaneous granulomas, I also have SEVERE pulmonary infiltration & strong suspicion of Neurosarcoid, (started to have severe tonic-clonic seizures, 3 in summer 2018, {was NOT placed on medication NOR was I referred to a neurologist until I had 3 more LAST summer, one being observed in the ER BUT I digress). I literally just stopped the painful coughing last week of April/first week of May.
Notice the date I started on this year's hell ...DECEMBER 28, 2019!! I live in NORCAL, about 45 miles DUE EAST from the "first acknowledged community spread case", in Fairfield Ca. I cannot tell you how many people I have either spoke with online Or read threads of who recounted the fact that they travelled to California as early as NOVEMBER, as in BEFORE Thanksgiving for business OR visiting family & friends for holidays. Literally DOZENS, (I'm being conservative, trust me), flew back to their prospective states & almost without fail, came down with what was described as "the WORST flu I have EVER had"!
More than a few ended up in hospital with pneumonia & sadly, a few died. They were tested for Influenza, Pneumococcus, etc, (all the usual suspects) & guess what? They came up negative BUT when a few who were able to get tested for Sars2, aka CoV19, they came up POSITIVE. Sadly, more than a few of them were foreign nationals, in large part from Asia but there were enough of them, (fairly wealthy), who were able to get tested for Influenza, etc & they came up negative for everything that they were tested for. Of course, I didn't run across any of them that were able to be tested for CoV19 early during the outbreak but SOME were able to and they came up POSITIVE, though the vast majority are, like me, " A Presumptive Positive for CV19".
That virus was HERE on the West Coast LONG before the cluster in Washington state though, I can't prove it YET, at least before a test for exposure becomes widely available, ie, Antibody tests, (I hope that they test for ALL 5 classes of Immunoglobulins, considering that this novel Coronavirus is highly infectious, virulent & I suspect, highly variable, with respect to changeability of it's antigens)
Anyway, I believe that the ONLY reason for the faux concern re: the cluster in the Washington nursing homes is to attempt to make NACHO DORITO THANG look somewhat competent but then, we all know how that's turned out.
In my case, neither I nor Bae could figure out how we came down with the "FLU FROM THE NINTH RING OF HELL" because even though I'm younger than the age group that normally are given the quadrivalent flu shot, (usually 65+) but I get it due to my complicated history. BTW, I had my shot in September and he had his in October. I have not EVER been that sick for THAT LONG ever & I survived stage 4 Cervical cancer AND visceral gangrene! Just passed my 9th year in February. 
I had a telemedicine consult about 3 weeks ago & during the course of the appt, I was asked about any worrying signs of CoV19 & I answered, "NOT ANYMORE". He looked at me like I'd grown a 3rd eye & responded, "It wasn't here in December..." I came back with"YES it was". He asked me what symptoms I HAD. When I told him what I went through, his eyes grew to the size of saucers. He's a resident, (UCDavis Med Center) & he wanted to add his consulting to the call. Cool, waited about 3 minutes & the attending showed up.
Anyway, the Attending, Dr Kravitz, with a smirk on his face asked me why I THOUGHT I had had CV19. I told him that I'd NEVER been that sick, for so long & I'd had my shot on time. He them got VERY patronising, chuckled & began with the spiel about how flu shots don't guarantee that people WON'T get the flu. Yada, yada.
I stopped him & started to recount the list of my symptoms & the length of the same symptoms, & when I mentioned the pain & struggle to breathe, etc. the color literally drained from his face. He INSTANTLY began to take me seriously, asking me a serious lines of questions & taking notes. Once he finished with his line of questioning, he looked up from his notes & pronounced that "you need to go get tested." I said, "No $h!t, sherlock" Then he went on to tell me that I could go to the drive through testing @ CalExpo. I said, "I can't because I've NO exposure to a proven CV19 patients" He then told me that , "No, anyone can get a test" I told him that I'd RECENTLY tried to get a test, (I believe it was about 8 days earlier). Dr said that, "They've dropped the pre-Requisites" I came back with, " what good would it do me now that I'm no longer acute. Now, IF there's somewhere I could take a test for antibodies, I'm all in. Besides, I don't want to take a chance to test for the virus from someone who's trying to get tested when, in essence, it'll do me NO good now." He agreed & told me that I he had noted in my chart that I was "Presumptive Positive" because all the symptoms I recounted to him, including some that are peculiar to CV19 & they're NOT associated with influenza. So, there's SO much more they've lied about re:CoV19, TRUST ME! It appears that the virus was her before CHRISTMAS & it was being transmitted via community spread by at least Thanksgiving.
& get this: I found out a few weeks ago that there was an express flight from WUHAN direct to SAN FRANCISCO!! HOW the HELL didn't His Corpulence NOT know about that because, as his lying ass claims, "I put the travel ban from Asia in place as soon as I could" but it appears that he excepted an inconvenient 40K not to mention his weird travel ban from Europe that for some brain burned reason excluded the UK, cuz why not? Well, that's my experience. Now, I'm just waiting for my immune system to stop to beat my behind in retaliation for contracting CoV19.
May all beings be peaceful
May all beings be happy
May all beings be safe
May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature
May all beings be free
I do believe in hugs, though.
All I can say is thank you for letting us know. Giving us a view sitting on your shoulder.
Sending love, affection, solidarity, visualizations of health and triumph, and LOTS of virtual hugs!
And that you continue to not feel too bad.
May you continue to be safeinOhio.
Thinking of you!
nothing can touch you!
Easily said. Harder to do.
Save your energy for whatever you're fighting.
Power of positive thinking. Think good thoughts.
All the best.
We're cheering for you! 
Take the above advice and start trying to do some deep breathing and relaxation exercises.
We are here for you!
Keep us posted
Please send an update when you're able.
You've go the best pack of worriers in the world on your side tonight!........
All our virtual arms are around you
And a virtual hug!
Hang in there!
