Sept. 7, 2025

Guess Who's Back, Back Again?

by Dymitri Haraszewski (author's profile)

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Guess Who's Back, Back Again'
Covid's back! Tell a friend.
So yeah, Covid. First off, the end of 2024 was not kind to me. I got sick 4 times from October 22nd to Dec. 31st, everything from razorblade throat with a lost voice to norovirus, aka the "cruise ship virus", which was the most painful experience I'd had in a long time, though the worst of it paseed within 24 hours. Still, 4 significant illness, all very much separate from each other, in just 70 days.
That's almost 2 sickness PER MONTH, and besides the violent vomiting of norovirus, all of these lasted a week or more. So, I was sick with something for basically half of the days in the 3rd quarter of the year. Each time I finally felt recovered, lungs functioning again, exercise possible again...BAM! I get slammed down again. Not fun.
But after norovirus, from January 1st, I really felt GOOD. It was a solid start to 2025. Getting strong again, doing lots of weight bearing workouts, running...I felt good for almost a full month. It began to seem like I'd have a normal life in term of not being sick every damn day. But just as I started thinkng I might go months between illnesses rather weeks or days...corona virus. And for the first time since 2020, I was unvaccinanted. Why? Becuase I was SICK when they offered the vaccine!
So, even though I've cought Covid at least once every year, this one was BAD. Very bad. It was a lot like the first time, and that one left me with symptoms for a year. Seems I'm in for the same this time around. But get a load of the advice I got. In the midst of the illness,

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