Hallelujah! It looks like I may have survived! And so far, the dog hasn’t caught the accursed covid from me, despite her habit of sleeping on the bed with me.
Who knew dogs could catch it, too?! Oh well…too late now!
Slept eight uninterrupted hours — which is unusual for me. This morning the fever is gone. Still have a cough…and probably will for several weeks, if this thing acts like colds and flu do. I’ve always been peculiarly susceptible to lung infections (which makes this virus especially scary, IMHO), and what passes in two weeks for most folks will hang onto me for a good six weeks. Not looking forward to six weeks of dry hacking, but mighty glad to be rid of the fever, the overall feel-awful, and the cognitive fuzziness.
Apparently relapses are very common, though…at least after paxlovid treatment. Apparently most relapses happen within eight weeks. Ohhh goodie…can’t wait to be on pins & needles for the next two months! As for the dog: no idea how long it might take for the bug to materialize in her.
Man! This is just one long, uninterruptible nightmare.
In other precincts, we don’t appear to be out of the woods in the Department of School Shootings. Some fine young citizen brought an AR-15 to a local high school. Didn’t shoot the place up, though. That’s something. I guess.
That’s in Maryvale, a vast low-income area on the west side, where schools tend to be piss-poor and kids tend to be gang members. But still…forgodsake my schools in California were full of gang members, and none of them toted their armaments to campus. Why is this necessary, folks?
Got to make another run on Best Buy today, to try to retrieve the laptop. They called me and said it was ready yesterday, but when I got there…nope!
Gee, thanks, fellas: I just love driving through Phoenix’s hellish traffic for nothing!
Well, if the dog is going to get a walk today, I’d better get out of here. It’s already 7 a.m. and soon will be too hot to walk on the pavements. And so, awwayyyy!
So glad to hear that the fever’s gone and you’re feeling better. Frankly, I think it’s highly unlikely Ruby will catch it from you. Fingers crossed.
You drove all the way to Best Buy because you were told the laptop was ready and it wasn’t? Did you read management the riot act? Not that anybody cares these days. Anyway, I hope it really is ready this time.
LOL! Yeah, the Best Buy exploit was a little annoying…but really, those guys are usually SO excellent, an occasional lapse can be forgiven.
When I did go back & pick it up, they told me (as I suspected they would) that the OS and the Windows programs are now SO outdated, there’s basically nothing they can do.
So I looked at purchasing a new MacBook. But before I get flamboozled into that, you may be sure I’ll be paying a visit to the Apple store!
Problem is — AND the very reason I take my Mac to BB — that Apple has closed its centrally located stores! If you want to visit an Apple store, you have to drive WAYYYY to hell & gone to Northeast Scottsdale, or WAYYYY to hell & gone in the other direction, to Arrowhead Mall. One is halfway to New Mexico; the other is halfway to Yuma. Round trip to either of these venues will consume at least a third of a tank of gas!
At 5 bucks a gallon (yes, I did see a station peddling gas for $4.99/gallon!), just taking the thing to an Apple store would cost me pretty close to twenty bucks in gas.