COVID Update

I'm still struggling with lingering COVID symptoms that are not only bothersome but they are still rather painful.

This all started shortly after my visit to the ER on July 9th for my table saw accident when I amputated part of my thumb.  Fortunately, my thumb is recovering nicely.  It is still quite sensitive but it is definitely healing nicely. 

Shortly after we sat down in the ER waiting room, an elderly woman sat down behind us who was hacking up a lung due to a terrible case of COVID.  Sheila and I looked at each other and hoped we would be called into Trauma quickly.  We only had to wait about five minutes before being called back to Trauma but, within a week, I had developed COVID symptoms myself.

The left side of my throat was killing me that felt like I had a raw patch of esophagus that was turning into a big hole in my throat.  It is a type of sore throat that I've never felt before.  Within another week, I had mild fevers late each day, sinus pain, ear pain and a massive headache.  Of course, I had less energy than usual too.  I was hoping this would pass quickly.  

By late August, the pain radiating from my left ear was unbearable so we headed to the doctor.  I was dizzy, nauseated, and in a lot of pain.  I did a week of antibiotics for an ear infection and that seemed to help a bit but it definitely did not clear up my problems.  My throat still hurts, my head hurts (mostly on the left side), my neck hurts, my sinuses hurt, I now have some relatively minor difficulties with breathing and I generally feel lousy.  This worsens as the day progresses...  in short, my health deteriorates as the day progresses. 

Once again, COVID is lingering and has me doing virtually nothing each day.  I'm just trying to get through each day and hoping tomorrow will be better.  I've had COVID so many times that I've lost count....   maybe about seven times now?  Each time I experience lingering symptoms that last for months.  The other thing that I experience with each of these COVID infections is that the symptoms get worse later in the day and the symptoms come and go in waves.  And, as I said, these waves of worsening symptoms come and go for months.

So, between my thumb injury and COVID, once again, I completely lost another summer and I'm still feeling quite lousy as the leaves begin to change.

EDIT:  It is now later in the evening and, as usual for a few months everytime I have COVID, I have a low grade fever...