Prompt in the first week that my new boyfriend came to live with me, I started to feel a bit tired, now there could have a been a load of reasons why I felt this way, all it did for me was make me feel very old. There you are, looking like new(ish), feeling young(er) having an age misappropriate boyfriend and within the first week of being together your body gives up!
I am since May 20th a widow and I have managed to turn my life around quite a lot, I have lost over 20 kilos and had an eyelift.
It took at least 20 years of my real age and while with my husband I slept quite a lot in the afternoon, since I had been on my diet I no longer needed that.
I was feeling fabulous and had loads of energy, but since a couple of days I also was in quite a bit of muscle ache. So I went to sleep for a while in the afternoon, feeling hugely embarrassed towards my young love.. who was very understanding.
I thought this is it: I have fallen in love and now my body is failing me, how bloody marvellous!
Still the pain took a lot out of me, so I slept in the afternoon in order to come back alive later. I took some paracetamol and I woke up great. Meantime my son had come back from work in Groningen, finished the job, happy to be living at home again.
After a few days he came down complaining about not feeling well and going to make a call about taking a test for Corona. I, in all my wisdom, scuffed at the idea, Corona, you must be joking, Corona is for other, older people, not for us! But he was convinced, made an appointment and asked if I also wanted a test?
Euh no thank you and I bet yours will be negative as well…
Well, actually it did not, he did it due to a throat infection which I had failed to notice and both him and his (pregnant) wife were both positive for Corona.
Not wanting to catch it, we decided that they would use the upstairs toilet and we the downstairs one. We would have the first round of showers and then them and we would stay out of the kitchen, while they were there. The twain of us would never meet!
Perfect arrangement as they still seem to function and while not noticing that I was becoming weaker and weaker. I wondered if I had my muscle pains from somewhere, but never would I even consider that I might have Corona.
Not even when I got a huge heavy flu attack that left me weak as a kitten. I was very fortunate that my boyfriend forced me to drink quite a lot otherwise I would have probably dried out with the temperatures I had. I was lucky having such a good health because apart from the intense muscle pain and the flu I was quite all right and the flu only lasted two days and I was up and about again.
Thank Gawd I have a very sensible boyfriend who somehow started to get some of my symptoms. So at his request, I called them, explained our situation and asked for an appointment for the both of us.
Our first outing together and we went to a teststreet on an industrial estate… soo romantic! It took from Friday till sundaymorning to be told that we also had Corona, at the very moment my boyfriend was quite ill with fever and sore throat and I was already back to normal or so I thought…
I think you can easily survive Corona if your overall health if pretty okay, what also helped was the fact that I was already taking D3, zinc etc in supplements and ate only very healthy diet.
Or it can just be because we were very lucky, but we got through it.
Boyfriend is feeling much better again and we are both on our way to recovery.
There are though a few things missing as yet: both our sense of smell seems to be gone as quite a bit of our sense of taste, I still have a bit of a cold but it is getting less and less.
Worse of it all is our loss of energy, we have become very lazy. He is not up to even walking the dogs just yet. I can walk the dogs barely and then I almost have to go back to bed in order to survive the day.
Although it might sound quite attractive, it definitely is not, so I hope that we will have our strength back soon
Have a great day !
