Being bed-bound in July is not how I envisioned my summer, but our old friend Covid-19 had other ideas.
A tickly throat, a lack of energy and a slight chill was put down to playing seven a side football in some unseasonal July rain. But the chill become a bone shudder and the tickle became more like sandpaper being dragged down my oesophagus.
The ears went next, feeling as if I’d listened to music on full blast for hours on end with crap headphones. I tapped out and slipped into my bed on Tuesday evening, not to emerge again until this morning (July 5) after an intense battle with a blast from the past, Covid-19.
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It’s not strange to contract Covid, but the fact that I got it in the summer (albeit a vintage rainy Brit summer) and the fact that I’ve two jabs to my name made me wonder if the disease is experiencing a renaissance.
Indeed, work colleagues, family members, friends and social media users alike have complained about Covid returning, but what surprised me was the short, sharp shock of this bout.
I felt like my head was in a blender, my eyes being forced out of my head and my bones rattling together like loose Cadbury Fingers inside their packaging.
What was surprising, however, was how sick it made me feel. Like vomity, nauseous kind of sick.
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Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, recently told the New York Times that people end up feeling more like they have food poisoning than anything else when they contract Covid.
That’s because coronavirus is “like throwing a bomb in your body,” according to Dr. Ken Cadwell, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how Covid affects the gut.
“You’re going to feel that in multiple different organs, not just the lungs.”
However, as quick as Covid came, it was gone again. An unwelcome visitor that HOPEFULLY never returns again.
The sun appears to be back and after kilos of Lempsip I am also back, as it were.
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