Covid strikes!

Here's hoping that you have definitely turned the corner.

First and foremost…… WOW, I’m happy you’re feeling much better!! THANK YOU for documenting your experience with this plague.  I’m 100% a science guy, I don’t do hocus pocus and I don’t do “feel good” remedies for anything health related or mass shootings.  Whilst many are distracted with how to challenge authority, many of us are focused on efficacy of treatment, prevention and doing anything in our power to alter the future.

Being proactive with YOUR health is the most important thing anyone can do for themselves, their family and everyone around them.  We live in a peculiar time, and I hear and see things that make it even more peculiar than I once thought.

I can’t think of anything I would personally do different than you have done.  Like yourself, my Primary Care Physician and I are BFF’s, I get my intel from a guy who prides himself on being CURRENT. He and I get together at least 2x a week to pick up, squat and deadlift heavy things.  During this time, we gossip current events, life and banter of things to come.  Everything you’ve posted here……. “He strongly agrees with and then some.” 

I’m a walk up to the line guy, I’ll put my toes on it, jump up and down, flip the bird to the “other side” but I don’t cross it.  I challenge many things because it makes people THINK. Your critical thinking “in my opinion” is responsible for your favourable recovery.  THE END.

Get your rest for sure, but don’t you dare stop moving, hack up as much lung as you need to, KEEP MOVING.  Get on the floor, stretch, do 15 sets of 20 air squats, 500 toe touches, anything, just KEEP MOVING.  And nutrition…….yeah, that.  Fat Protein Carbs, REAL energy.  Can’t say enough about those 2 treatments for many many many ailments… Diet and Exercise

Positive Vibes to YOU and your Family, keep up the brilliant work fighting this beast!

Timely advise ExtraProtein and thank you.  Let me share the latest in my trail to recovery.  I still have the overwhelming exhaustion many report with Covid and I assume it has everything to do with some viral interaction/damage to oxygen exchange in my lungs.  Just guessing now because I’m no MD.  Just listening to my body.  Quality rest seems a good course of action and FINALLY sleep patterns are returning.  I can feel deep REM sleep helps.  That said I feel I’m walking the tightrope between enough rest and not enough physical activity.  Thus I’ve been doing some yoga (shut up Bouki.  Farm kids can do yoga too). And find the slower pace allows for better assessment during the exercise.  So weird that seemingly innocuous movements have such an impact but I sure feel it’s beneficial.  Learned a long time ago that progress generally happens where discomfort begins so I’ll continue to push.  Nope, not doing ass-in-grass deep squats nor do I need a spotter but I did swing an axe yesterday for a half hour on a juniper beam and built an amazingly quick sweat.  (By the way, the axe is a vintage True Temper Kelly with a new rehaft and it swings wonderfully well.)  sure could not have chopped for an hour though no matter what pace I’d choose.  Hydration and nutrition are key focus and seem to pay dividends.  I’ll keep moving and pushing.  My sense of smell seems to be coming back.  I’m sure a new cologne would be lost on me but familiar scents are enjoyable even as I know my brain is filling in the gaps that my shnozz can’t detect.  I’m really surprised at how long this convalescence is taking.  Almost as vicious as knee replacement sans the pain factor.  Improvement noted daily and I expect in a fortnight to be fielding calls to be the new face of James Bond.

Lipripper660, you keep up with that yoga! My wife, who's a complete yoga freak, says it's all about the breathing. Should do the lungs some good. She's always trying to get me to try out some of the poses, but so far all I've mastered is shavasana: dead corpse pose. I'm brilliant at it.

... Once recovered you have 27x better protection than any jab according to the Israelis. ...

(MaineYooper's citations — TLDR)
Even if it was true and as simple as that, there's still the challenge of "recovering" and not dying in the first place. Otherwise you don't even make it into the study.
Seems like too much of a risk to me.
All I suffered from both of my jabs was a day of sore shoulder.

This covid is getting me down.  Every moment that we miss, be it time spent with loved ones or events like a wedding or a funeral, first day of school or college, first kiss or just spending some time with someone before they pass on...its all lost to time, not even kept alive in memories.  It made me think of this Green Day song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnQ8N1KacJc

So here I sit many days post first symptoms (Sept 6th) and gratefully am just now feeling like my body is kicking effects of Covid to the curb.  Still can’t smell things well, in fact I was in Yellowstone’s Hayden Valley yesterday and passing by an especially sulphur-laden feature was overjoyed to find I could smell that hydrogen sulfide and it was glorious.  Weirdo?  I know.  But the rotten egg smell to me hearkens to simpler times in my hoysprings laden childhood and I will ever love that scent.  And I could!  Knowing full well how pungent this feature is I asked my bride if it was still as stinky as ever and she assured me it was, and that my schnoz had some repair to do yet.  Pretty convinced I’ll regain all olfactory benefits though. He almost debilitating fatigue is waining and daily walks seem to be helping.  Previously wrecked sleep cycles seem totally repaired and perhaps improved because I’ve been enjoying sleep that is so deep, restful, and uninterrupted.  Taste is still totally wonky but I suppose that’s more to do with scent than anything.  I do notice a new taste sensitivity to salt and everything seems salty these days.  I still have zero idea of when, what, who, helped me catch the virus but I can report that few humans will be more diligent in their effort of personal and public safety.  I believe Nashville, and the conference attended was the vector but which moment I’ll never know.  I wash hands super often, wear a mask when feasible, and clean surfaces like an autoclave and those efforts were obviously insufficient in my case.  I’ve read everything I can get my hands on concerning Covid.  I’m not shocked that so much disagreement exists concerning a new virus but I am most alarmed at the vitriol generated within different camps of thought.  My very personal conclusions: vaccines seem to be very helpful but are no panacea. Masks seem to help but might be a “reminder” to practice proper hygiene more than to be a physical barrier to the virus.  At any rate, to me they ought to lessen viral load and are useful.  It would see through watching a map of second-wave infection that natural immune response will prove more beneficial than current vaccines. It seems to me I see patterns of milder outbreaks this second round in areas that were “hot” on the first go round.  (Just guessing). It also seems that Covid will be with us always and a human herd immunity seems the most likely workable outcome.  I am not surprised to find so many parallels between Covid and Spanish flu.  I’ve resolved that covids worst damage has not been the tragic loss of life but is truly isolation and missed life experience.  I will continue to listen and follow scientific advise as it evolves. Stay safe friends.

Hang in there.  We're pulling for you.

Hang in there.  We're pulling for you.

Hahaha.  Thanks Freddy but m pretty sure I’m out of the woods and was never in real jeopardy.  I know my bride wasn’t worried but she is the beneficiary named on the life insurance policies and I’m worth a lot more dead to her than alive.  It’s been fun to study stuff in any regard.

Glad you're doing so good. It took me a little bit to get my blood O2 back and I'll probably never get it all back. It's been over 1.5 years and I'm still down 2% when resting from before.

I may have posted this previously. Since you pulled through what you have is 27x more potent than the "vaccine". You virtually can't get it or any variant again since our immune system can identify variants and says, "Oh, I've seen you before, hey, let me get my buddies; you're gone!". That's according to many studies, the latest one the Israeli study that was just recently released. And it doesn't wear off unlike the jab. You'll have it for at least 20 years.

If you want more data natural immunity vs the jab you'll need to find it on your own. Every time I post this stuff it ticks people off and I've posted enough. Or you can PM me. I've been studying this since I had my unknown illness in Feb' '20.