Do you think you might have had COVID-19 before we knew it was in the country?

[woodsprite]

13. My daughter and I both had something in early-mid Dec., constant sinus drainage, fever (top was 101)

and sheer utter exhaustion I had never felt before. Cough that I handled with Nyquil. I remember thinking if the drastic drainage didn't stop, I would have to go to the ER because I felt like I was going to drown. For my daughter and I, it lasted up through New Years and were still fighting it a bit when we went back to work a week later - so 4 wks or more. It stuck in my mind due to the massive amount of drainage and the exhaustion. When someone asks how I'm doing, no matter what, I usually say "fine". I don't think I've ever really answer that question truthfully when I've felt less than fine, except for the Sunday after the fever. Someone asked, and I surprised myself by saying "Just exhausted. More than I've ever felt before."

Whatever it was we had seemed to have been very contagious. The lady that stands next to me in our bell choir had it the week after Thanksgiving, lots of coughing, fever, sinus. She came to bell practice when the fever went down. Within 7-10 days 4 more of us had it - me (her stand partner), 2 women on the other side of her, and the director who stands right in front of her.

At the time I was thinking that maybe it was regular flu and would have been worse if I hadn't have gotten my flu shot and pneumonia shot at the end of October.