January 2022 is quite not a good start for me and everyone
else. While the world is waiting for the
eminent arrival of Covid 19 Omicron virus, I am experiencing yet again another
bout of flu like symptoms the night before our new year celebration.
December 31 feels like I’m getting sick. I knew my body. I felt that extra ordinary
cold within me and my muscles started to ache.
The weather is colder at this time of the month, so I guess I’m just feeling
the weather. I even buy some ingredients
in the wet market with my husband and prepares and cooked the food as
always. I felt sleepy early night and I’m
hoping sleeping might be the answer to my tired body.
January 1 is a different story; I am now having a mild sore
throat and I have a slight fever of 37.3C in the afternoon and I immediately
inform my husband that they need to transfer to the other room. I can’t risk them getting sick.
And so, the slight fever becomes a full-blown fever at 38.2C
and I kept on checking my oximeter which is so far at above 95 in reading. I have no cough and colds, but my sore throat
is getting worst. I can’t help but
worry, but the rising number of people in our office getting sick and in home
isolation makes me freak out. I must inform
my boss and our company nurse for recommendation.
Monday, January 3, though I have no fever but my sore throat
still kicking I must go the nearest hospital for an RT PCR swab
testing. But after minutes of waiting,
they informed me that I already used my health card limit for Covid when I was
hospitalized last year so they declined my request. But then my good company let me get the antigen
test since I am already symptomatic subject for reimbursement, so I went back
to the hospital and voila! The test came back NEGATIVE!
Our barangay health office contact tracer called me if I need
to re-swab thru the RT PCR and I said yes because we all know that antigen swab
is not that accurate. They gather all my
info and was informed that I need to go to our barangay for a free RT PCR
testing on January 5.
It came back NEGATIVE after 2 days of waiting. I feel so relieved,
my anti-bodies are indeed working. But my MIL (mother in-law) had a fever and
cough and so I caught again the cough with colds, and I must endure it for the
rest of the week. I finally convinced I must
take the Chinese herbal supplement, Lianhua capsules with some prescribed cough
medicine from our doctor. I’m feeling
better right now. Still coughing phlegm but at least not that much. I keep on praying to God that we can get over
this, all that are sick right now. May God heal us all.
Keep safe everyone! The virus is still out there. God bless
us all!
