I think it happened.

[smokingboot]

Right now, it is impossible for me to avoid the suspicion that I've had Covid.

This fatigue is extreme, I have no way of explaining it.

Up around 7.30/8 am, working around 9/ 9.30, exhausted by noon. And this is a very easy edit requiring little in the way of concentration. It makes no sense for me to feel like this.


Of course it could be something else, maybe just a cold; for sure I have hay fever symptoms, but these are easily dealt with. I cannot believe how much my body wants to sleep.

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[mallorys_camera]

Could be Covid. Or it could be some Epstein-barr virus-related thing like mononucleosis.

Can you get tested?

[smokingboot]

For Covid now, possibly, or possibly not - apart from the fatigue I am not showing any distinct signs for it, and there's no testing for asymptomatics here. Looking back there was one point much earlier in the year when I had the peculiar little cough that came and went. I would like to test to see if I have had it, but scientist friend tells us that there are no currently available tests she would deem reliable for detecting the antibodies.

I hadn't considered something like mononucleosis.

[mallorys_camera]

The classic sign of mononucleosis is sleep upward of 12 hours a day.

In fact, I'm not sure that mononucleosis has any other symptoms other than the overwhelming desire to sleep.

[smokingboot]

Hmm, I wonder. Today up at 8 working by 9 exhausted by 12, and now a sore throat. Maybe I am dealing with the ghost of Lurgy future rather than past.