Plague diary 6/04; isolation day 5

[liv]

I'm doing basically fine but continuing to be careful.

I still have the same single worrying symptom I had on Thursday, sore lungs. I don't otherwise feel ill, feverish, tired or anything else, so I'm really second guessing myself over whether isolation was the right choice.

The last few days have been mostly pleasant though stressful for jack who's handling everything on his own and worrying about me getting seriously ill or possibly infecting him.

Friday was 19 days since the government started taking action. I worked in my new upstairs den (previously jack's den.) We had a weird date where jack brought me up a tray with the Shabbat ritual things, I made kiddush sitting at the top of the stairs and he sat at the bottom, and we ate dinner in parallel but at a distance. And then we played Potion explosion over Steam, which worked pretty well.

The weekend was ridiculously lovely, and we were both good and only sunbathed and exercised in our own garden. Saturday, day 20, I went to virtual shul, which on only the second iteration starts to feel almost normal. Bigger than usual congregation, including some of the people who are usually strict about not using electronic technology on Shabbat. And in the afternoon I attended the second half of wildeabandon's Stardust readthrough which was generally satisfying and companionable. And I had a long phonecall with ghoti_mhic_uait.

Sunday, day 21, had slightly fewer online social commitments. We had a lot of time in the sunshine in the garden, remaining carefully distanced. cjwatson came by to wave to me from the street while I looked out of an upstairs window like some ridiculous fairy tale princess. We video chatted to jack's university friends; it's been a long time since the original trio got together since one of them lives in Croatia and has two small children. And I did my online chevruta just like the previous week, slightly sheepishly admitting I was Skyping from bed because I was isolating for basically no reason. And I had a long conversation with cjwatson in the evening.

Since today is day 22, and two weeks of lockdown, it's now been a whole two weeks since I last interacted directly with anyone other than jack. jack has also not left the house or allowed delivery people to come close to him since I got the weird symptoms on Thursday, so five days so far.

I now know eight people who have pretty clearly been through a bout of coronavirus, and 21 who like me are being careful because they have suspicious symptoms.

Thanks to everyone who made nice comments on my last post, I really appreciate all of you.

Comments

[falena]

Glad to hear you and jack are both doing okay, all things considered. Still going to keep you in my thoughts.

[nou]

The vision of you being a ridiculous fairy tale princess from your upstairs window is making me smile :)

You’re doing the right thing, and I hope you start to feel better soon.

[hatam_soferet]

She's got the hair for a Rapunzel, as well!

[nou]

Indeed :)

[shewhostaples]

Glad you're doing OK - hope things continue that way!

[azurelunatic]

♥

Glad you're continuing to do okay, despite the suspicious symptoms.

[lilacsigil]

Yay, I'm glad things are going relatively well for you.

[silveradept]

Good to hear that you are doing okay and that it seems to be more of an overabundance of caution rather than anything turning serious.

[rmc28]

Glad to hear you're ok. I love the image of you looking out of your lonely tower window :-)

Eh, skypeing from bed is fine. One of my reports at work basically does all our video chats from his bed (I think it's the only room he can shut a door on everyone else easily), and I did the weekend Wifi SciFi thing from my bedroom for similar reasons.

[shreena]

I'm glad your symptoms haven't got worse!

We think we may have had it a couple of weeks ago but the symptoms are so varied that it's hard to tell especially when you have little kids so get everything going.

[damerell]

You can add one to your list of suspicious symptoms. After two weeks, I can go outside again today!

[sfred]

<3

[emperor]

Glad to hear symptoms remain on the mild end! I passed a house on my bike ride at the weekend where a similar conversation-from-upper window was happening :)

[mrissa]

Thank you for updating us, I'm glad you're doing okay.

[cynthia1960]

Stay safe, healing wishes.