Castle Magus

Going to put the details behind a cut, because they're of a medical nature. Also because it's a wall o' text.

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My sister (the one with whom I live) got a COVID test (PCR, not rapid) on Friday, and the results came back today: "detected." As such, this means that it's around 99.999% certain that I also have COVID, since I've been sick for almost as long as she has been. I won't say it has been "mild," because it has sucked some serious asshole, so far, but it hasn't been completely debilitating either. As such, I guess compared to how bad it could be, it actually is pretty "mild," so far. I.e., I feel at least okay enough, for instance, to sit here at the computer, rather than, say, just lay in bed all day. Same is the case for my sister, who has been up and about pretty much the whole time, since telling me she was feeling sick last week. Granted, neither of us feel like running a marathon or anything right now, but then, it's not like I'd be doing that anyway, even if I was at full 100% health. ¬_¬ Neither of us feel even remotely bad enough to have a need to go to the hospital or anything like that, which is nice, and I hope that remains the case.

Symptoms for me have been moderate headache, sore/scratchy throat, lots of coughing, increasingly stopped up nose (today is about as bad as yesterday, which was worse than any previous day since it all started last week), and just a general, full-body malaise, which sucks shit. I can still taste food or whatever, at least so far, though, so there is that. For the most part, it has "just" felt like a relatively bad case of flu. Honestly, from what I recall of it back then, this here doesn't feel too different from when I was sick back in December, 2020. (I'll never know for sure if that was original recipe COVID.) That stuck around around two weeks, at least. Hope this one passes more quickly. It's been around four or five days for me, at this point.

My sister and I both had the vaccine (Pfizer version), but neither of us had a booster yet. For me, I won't be eligible for the six-month booster until February 23, since I got my second dose of the original vaccine on August 23, 2021. I'll be getting it as soon as possible, though.

This is me, too much of the time, especially lately. See also the first panel of the previous comic.

Pulled a muscle in my back yesterday, while helping my sister put up a temporary dog fence (two dogs are coming here from tomorrow evening until next Sunday while their owners are on vacation). So, basically, now is like... standing is mostly okay, sitting is mostly okay, laying in bed (as long as I remain still and don't try to shift positions) is mostly okay, but trying to transition between any of those states is decidedly not okay. It sucks pretty hard.

If there was a way to tell an entire day to just fuck off, go away, and leave me alone, and have said day actually do that, that's what I would definitely be telling today to do.

Woke up with migraine this morning. But worse than that, woke up from a cruddy dream to migraine. Dream went from normal (riding around in car) to nightmare (launching into deep water and sinking like a rock) in no time at all. Not sure if it was related to or result of the headache or just coincidence, but that's when I woke up with headache. Don't usually have dreams with headaches like this, at least that I can remember. Anyway, sent email to work, now going back to bed. -_-

That is all.

Went to bed last night a little after midnight and was pretty much feeling fine at the time. Then I woke up around 3am or so with a migraine, which is still going even now. Not sure how much sleep I got after that but I know I got at least some, since when the alarm came on it woke me up from what was among the worst dreams I've ever had. More on that in a bit. I got up and went to send off an email to work telling them I wouldn't be in today, then went back to bed. Only just got up again around 30-45 minutes ago or so, so total time in bed was roughly 11 and a half hours or so. Out of that, no idea how much actual, meaningful sleep there was. Aside from the dream, most of it seemed to feel like a kind of stupor, not fully asleep but not fully awake either. Still feeling incredibly crappy right now.

( The dream. )

All in all, this is a really crappy end to an otherwise decent 4-day Thanksgiving weekend. That felt like an actual vacation of sorts. This today, however, just feels like me missing a day of work due to a freaking migraine.

When I went to bed last night, it was with the telltale fuzziness that usually indicates something bad is on the horizon and, sure enough, I woke up this morning around 5:30 or so with this crap. I just turned the alarm off and went back to sleep, only waking up again about 15-20 minutes ago. Wish it could have waited just one more day before setting in, because I was already looking to have a 3-day weekend anyway (Memorial Day being one of the very few holidays we actually get off where I work), but now it's an impromptu 4-day weekend. :(

I have a migraine now. It set in around 3:00 last night. I only just got out of bed a few minutes ago, despite not sleeping all that much in that time period. I won't be going to work today. It sucks asscrack.

I had some pretty crappy dreams last night, a few of which I can remember.

( Dream #1: The thing in the elevator shaft. )


( Dream #2: One of the blasted false awakening dreams. )


( Dream #3: The horizontal spider-web above my bed. )


I don't remember ever having dreams during migraine half-sleep like this before, but if this is what they're like, then I can definitely do without.