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My COVID-19 experience: 1
Revision 7. Updated: Sunday February 26, 2023. The start I got some mild symptoms early on Saturday, Feb 18, 2023: cough, sore throat, runny nose, some muscle soreness. My wife and I took COVID-19 tests, she was negative, I was positive. As the day went on, I had episodes of chills and shaking, and more muscle soreness. On Sunday, the symptoms seemed to be lessening, except for a runny nose, and a persistent but lessening cough. The past, specifics Going by articles (such as CDC, Harvard), the possibility of exposure of the virus to me was 2-14 days before onset of symptoms. This involves the following gatherings. Meeting reports do include me:
Who passed it to me? I'm not judging here, I'm trying to notify people who may have passed it along me, so they may see the desirability to test themselves. Going by the numbers from the CDC and Harvard, I may have been infected as long as 14 days ago (meeting 1), and as recently as 2 days (meeting 7), but the latter is unlikely. To whom did I pass it? If I had been infected earlier, I may have passed it along to folks in meetings on previous meeting days: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, most likely on days 7 and 8. On Tuesday, Feb 21, my wife tested positive. That's 3 days after I was positive, so it's likely that I infected her. Going by the numbers, she was probably a contagion source from Saturday Feb 18 to perhaps Feb 25, a narrow window and it might be wider. She has been prescribed Paxlovid. Her reaction became worse than mine after an initial mild set of symptoms. What am I going to do? I notified my primary care physician. I am going to self isolate, drink liters of liquids, take ibuprofen and acetaminophen, get plenty of rest. I have lots of books to read, and many Great Courses to watch. Wait 10 days, then see how things are going, no need to test for 3 months (see below). I have taken a 5-day regimen of Paxlovid based on medical advice ( primarily due to age ). What should you do? Keep vigilant for cold and flu-like symptoms. And note that even if you are asymptomatic, you can still pass it on. So you may want test yourself to make sure of your condition, positive or negative. Good luck, stay healthy, take care of yourself ... cheers, drl Symptom timeline: WEBMD On average, symptoms showed up in the newly infected person about 5.6 days after contact. Rarely, symptoms appeared as soon as 2 days after exposure. Most people with symptoms had them by day 12. And most of the other ill people were sick by day 14. https://www.webmd.com › covid Contagion timeline: Harvard People are thought to be most contagious early in the course of their illness. With Omicron, most transmission appears to occur during the one to two days before onset of symptoms, and in the two to three days afterwards. People with no symptoms can also spread the coronavirus to others. https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/if-youve-been-exposed-to-the-coronavirus When Is the Coronavirus the Most Contagious? Researchers estimate that people who get infected with the coronavirus can spread it to others 2 to 3 days before symptoms start and are most contagious 1 to 2 days before they feel sick. WEBMD I've tested positive for COVID-19 infection; how soon do I need to be tested again? Once you've tested positive for the virus, you do not need to be tested again for 90 days from symptom onset, if you became ill, or from the date of your positive test, if you remained asymptomatic. However, if you develop symptoms of COVID-19 during that three-month period, and if clinicians cannot identify another cause for these symptoms, you may need to be re-tested at that time. https://medical.mit.edu/faqs/positive-tests-isolation-quarantine-retesting January 21, 2021 |
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RLH, November 2019
RLH September 2019
January 2023
August 18, 2022
August 18, 2022
Thursday, 2022.07.21
Lonn, Dennis, Mike, Andy, Tom
(Jerry behind the camera)
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This is an audio dialog for Henry James' Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw Short Story from the Point of View of Mrs Grose, courtesy of AI NotebookLM (a Google product, currently free, 2024.10)
A Housekeeper's Fright The new governess, Miss, was a sweet young thing, though a bit too serious for her age, always worrying about the children. I, Mrs. Grose, being the housekeeper, have been at Bly for a long time, even serving the master's mother before him. I know these walls and the secrets they hold, secrets best left undisturbed. But the young miss, bless her heart, seemed determined to stir them up. She questioned me relentlessly about the previous governess, Miss Jessel, and that rascal Peter Quint. I tried to deflect, to protect her innocent mind from the ugliness that had stained Bly, but she was persistent. I knew what had transpired between those two - a scandalous affair, a servant and a lady. It ended tragically, of course. Miss Jessel went off and died, though the master never told me how. Quint, too, met his end on the grounds, a wicked man to the last. I thought it was all over, buried with them. But then Miss started seeing things – figures on the tower, peering through windows. At first, I dismissed it as her nerves, the loneliness getting to her. But when she described them, my blood ran cold. It was Quint, clear as day, back from the grave. From then on, fear was our constant companion. We whispered in the shadows, shared sleepless nights, and watched the children like hawks. I couldn’t see what the young miss saw, but I felt it - a creeping dread, a darkness hovering at the edges of our lives. The children, sweet as ever, seemed oblivious, playing their games, reciting their lessons. But Miss swore they were aware, that they communicated with the ghosts, even saw more than she did. She became fixated on protecting them, on breaking the hold of the evil she believed had been instilled in them by Quint and Jessel. I couldn’t understand it all, but I stood by her, out of loyalty and a growing sense of unease. Then came that fateful day by the lake. Miss confronted Flora, demanding to know where Miss Jessel was. And there she was, on the opposite bank, as real and menacing as ever. Even then, I couldn’t see her, but the terror in the young miss's eyes, the desperate plea of the child to be taken away from her, confirmed the awful truth. Miss, determined to save the children, wrote a letter to their uncle, begging him to come and take them away. But the letter disappeared. Master Miles, clever as a whip, had intercepted it. I saw then the truth of it, the terrible influence those two had over him. He was no innocent child, but a cunning accomplice in their dark schemes. Flora was sent away, feverish and terrified. Miss, left alone with Miles, tried to extract a confession from him. I knew it was a dangerous game she was playing, but I also knew I couldn’t stop her. My heart ached for both of them, caught in a web of horrors they didn’t fully understand. As I packed Flora’s things and prepared for our hasty departure, I prayed for them both. The darkness had returned to Bly, deeper and more sinister than before. And I, a simple housekeeper, was powerless to stop it. 
September 15, 2022
Thursday, 2022.07.21
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Mike, Rich, Tom, Lonn, Dennis
St Patrick's Day 2022.
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