What is your covid status?

[Cracklin Charlie]

20. No.

I have no idea what I had. Many, many people from my area had been having the same symptoms since at least Thanksgiving 2019, some that I knew (older) died. My granddaughter (my exposure) missed pretty much the whole school month of January that year because she kept running fever and getting sent home. The president was on teevee telling everyone it wasn’t coming here. All I know is that I had pretty much all the same symptoms as Cuomo.

High fever for four days, rigors, hallucinations. The virus seemed to be attacking my organs (kidneys), I was dizzy. I didn’t sleep for four days, nor eat for a week. I really couldn’t eat normally for about six weeks. When I stepped on a scale eight weeks later, I realized I had lost about 15 pounds (that’s more than 10% of my body weight). I was really somewhat exhausted until about June.

I don’t care if you believe me, or not. I have lived my life since then assuming I had something else, and not depending on any supposed immunity that my experience conferred upon me. I am fully vaccinated, wear face coverings in public, and pretty much stay home all the time. But my experience completely cured me of wishing this disease on anyone else, antivaxxer or not. I don’t want anybody to feel like I did. It’s horrible.