At Last!

[Desanthony]

Remember that Etta James song? I love it and had it played at our Wedding.

Today, at last, we have both tested negative! I was lucky enough to have tested negative yesterday as well so my wife will test again tomorrow to be sure. It's her birthday too so what a good present. It's nearly 3 weeks since we first tested positive. Still feeling more tired than we should after any work in the garden - but then we have had to empty the shed, fix a leak, varnish the floor (3 times) and put all the junk back in so it was hard work! At the same time trying to tidy up the garden a little - its rained a lot since and it's now more like a bog but a better looking bog than it would have been! all other symptoms pretty much gone bringing up very little phlegm, coughing less - no more sneezes, headaches and sore throat. In fact the sore throat and headaches only lasted a couple of days and were not too bad really. I have had worse head colds which actually lasted as long if not longer.

Although it's raining we are going out for a coffee and cake to celebrate. Its going to take me longer to recover from spending money on coffee and cake than the covid - I am a Yorkshireman after all.

[sassy59]

That’s terrific news for you both and happy birthday to your wife. I’m still coughing but otherwise fine.

Enjoy your coffee and cake and avoid the rain if you can.

[Desanthony in reply to sassy59]

Avoided the rain going out but not coming back - but only had to get to the car!

[CDreamer]

YEAH 👍👏👏👏

[BobD Volunteer]

As my Grandfather (a lancastrian) always told me a Yorkshire man was Scotsman shorn of his generosity. So glad you are feeling better at last. Enjoy your endulgence.

[Desanthony in reply to BobD]

Love it! I always said that Yorkshire men went up to Scotland and taught them all they know but they were not good learners!

[Czech_Mate]

Plenty to do in the garden at this time of year. Hope you enjoyed the coffee and cake, you've earned it.

[mrgwair567]

Enjoy your day! Try not to spend too much!!🤣😂🤣. Love that song !!

[wilsond]

Get wallet surgery to repair cafe damage lol! Seriously, glad you are out out now xx

[Singwell]

So pleased for you! It's weird that the tests stay positive so long after you feel better. Heard this from a lot of friends. Enjoy that coffee and cake.

[secondtry]

I was brought up in East Yorkshire never to splash our money around like that 😂.

[Sandra2021 in reply to secondtry]

Coming from Hull, that was my parents motto.

[bassets]

Good news!

[Desanthony]

The Good News is that my wife has tested negative for the second day running today but woke up in the night with tinnitus and now says she feels like she has vertigo feels sick and dizzy on standing up or bending down and bunged up head again! Hope this isn't the start of long covid for her? Will ring the GP later to see what he suggests! There's always something isn't there?

[Ppiman]

That was good to read. Mine took a few days longer than my wife, Wendy's, back in early January, so you held onto your virus a lot longer. I seem to recall reading that those of us who have been boosted can test positive for longer.

Let's hope you continue to recover fully. We seem to have had catarrh and sinus troubles on and off, with a few colds (but we're never sure) ever since, but overall, we're well enough.

Steve

[Desanthony in reply to Ppiman]

Yes on Wednesday my wife came down with labyrinthitis so has tinnitus, is dizzy and nauseous. Been given tablets by Doc but they've not really changed things most - whe was encouraged at first when he said if you take one and it makes a difference then don't take any more! We are on day 4 now. It seems bad when she wakes. We have breakfast and she takes her tablet and then it slowly clears a little over the next 2 hours which makes things bearable - that probably lasts for another 4 hours but after lunch she really needs to take another tablet and then sit down for a couple of hours again before it starts to clear. I am really tired - honestly when we were still testing positive last week we felt a lot better in general than we do now - I still cough at night which disturbs my sleep which obviously doesn't help with the fatique and although my wife sleeps quite well she is fatigued during the day too. Hopefully soon we will be out the other side.

[Ppiman in reply to Desanthony]

Our neighbour and is wife had covid three weeks ago for the first time and he told me that they had both had a really bad time with it. He said that he felt that, had they not had the vaccines, it would have finished them off! As we found at Christmas, it's a far worse thing than a common cold, but they definitely had a far worse time than we did. He certainly looked much older and his wife even worse when he told me but now, a couple of weeks on, and they are both looking and acting like their old selves and seem fully recovered.

I wonder whether your wife's dizziness isn't catarrh or sinus related as we still struggle with this four months later? It's a very hard thing to cope with so she has my sympathies.

Steve

[Desanthony in reply to Ppiman]

According to the Doctor no but maybe we should treat for that too? Who knows - quite often it is a mix of things, not just one thing that makes you feel poorly - it will pass I am sure. One of the worst parts is that we missed our booster yesterday because it was too close to our first testing positive - you have to wait 4 weeks post first positive test to have your booster and next week's clinic is a little too soon as well. Our surgery are not sure when the next clinics will be but are keeping their fingers crossed that they will have the vaccines for another clinic the following Friday. We tested again today and are negative but the masks are out again! We are certainly more fatigued and feel in general worse than when we were still positive - we were so pleased when we both tested negative - maybe that gave us an artificial high and we should have kept on feeling rotten and miserable sitting inside watching TV

[Ppiman in reply to Desanthony]

Assuming you’ve had three jabs, if it were me, I’d give it a good while to get the effects of covid fully out of my system before having the booster and to be sure i wasn’t going to have any “long” covid.

It seems all of the most important antibodies are formed after the first booster shot (i.e. jab three), so you’ll already be well protected from the severe form of covid. I’ve read that if the first two shots were AZ, not Pfizer or Moderna, then an extra booster is worthwhile.

Steve

[Desanthony in reply to Ppiman]

We've had 5 Covid shots. I think our first were Pfizer - will have to check our cards now. Thanks for this info.

[Tabor]

Praise the Lord you both tested negative. Covid is very brutal I lost my sister and her husband 9 days apart from covid, lost my brother, and husband’s sister all within 6 months. We couldn’t even be by their side. I still wear a mask when I go out in public. Take care!!!

[Ppiman in reply to Tabor]

That is awful for you. How tragic. And to think there are still people (more than one in my family…) who think it’s all a scam of some kind and that the vaccines are worse than the illness!

Steve

[Desanthony]

My wife's first two were AZ, then Pfizer, then Moderna and then one they didn't give us a card for I think it began with a C. Going to check up on that as I know I asked and wrote it down somewhere. I think I had pfizer as the first one. going to check on those too.