2022

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!