I lost the lottery.

[silveradept]

Swiss cheese defense is all the best that we can do, but for me at least, something managed to get through. So now I'm resting and trying not to do too much that might strain me or give SARS-CoV-2 any greater of a foothold on me.

If only we'd decided that a public health emergency actually was one and that we needed to see it through, instead of taking whatever path was the shortest to get everything back to the way it was. (I hope all the people who contributed to this infection get punched in the junk by some celestial entity.)

Comments

[ewt]

Oof. Best of luck.

[lilysea]

Oh no! :(

Can you get your hands on some antiviral medication?

Paxlovid seems to reduce the risk of Long Covid

[sonia]

Sorry to hear that and best wishes for recovery!

I don't understand the "lost the lottery" metaphor. Most people lose the lottery?

[silveradept]

Here's hoping. I definitely am feeling the effects of things that I would otherwise not think of as effort, and various aches, pains, and other situations. But I'm also getting plenty of sleep.

[silveradept]

It was discussed, but my risk factors were not determined to be something that needed the antivirals.

I intend to do very little at all if I can manage it.

[silveradept]

I hope it's a swift and complete recovery.

I'm specifically referring to The 1948 Shirley Jackson story The Lottery, where a person in a town is chosen at random to be stoned to death, as well as some commentary in it about the weight of tradition and how some people will resist the idea of change, even if change would result in less people dying.

[sonia]

Yes, swift and complete!

Oh, thanks for explaining! That makes much more sense.

[longmagpieroads]

Sending HUGS and Healing Vibes

[tjs_whatnot]

❤️❤️❤️ So sorry you are suffering!

[anais_pf]

I am so sorry. :(

[silveradept]

Thank you. That's appreciated very much.

[silveradept]

I am, too.

[silveradept]

Thank you. The good wishes are appreciated.

[azurelunatic]

*loads up the LEGO cannon with one-blocks*

Here's hoping for a swift, but most of all complete, recovery.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm so sad that we've been so completely let down by the structures that should support us, that we're left to stack up the swiss cheese ourselves.

Wishing you all the best.

[snowynight]

I'm so sorry! I hope you recover soon.

[umadoshi]

If only we'd decided that a public health emergency actually was one and that we needed to see it through

THIS x infinity. >.<

I hope the acute phase isn't too bad, and that there are no lingering effects. :(

[silveradept]

Yes, a complete recovery, please. And sufficient people getting sounded by those blocks from the cannon.

[silveradept]

There's been such a willful ignorance from those support structures, the ones that could really have helped keep things from getting out of control. I did the best I could, as best I could tell, and it still was a matter of good lock or bad luck.

[silveradept]

I hope the recovery is complete and swift, but if I have to choose, I'll take complete.

[silveradept]

The acute phase so far has not been fun at all, and I can only hope that's because there a spirited defense at work here. No lingering effects would be the very best outcome.

[shanaqui]

Here's hoping for a swift and complete recovery.

[silveradept]

Thank you. I hope so, too.

[snowynight]

Yeah. I wish you a complete recovery!

Sending strength

[jesse_the_k]

and virtual chicken soup and the most definite of recoveries.

Re: Sending strength

[silveradept]

Thank you. Those are appreciated. Medicine is making much of the symptoms manageable.

[vass]

I just saw this. Very best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery, and no one else infected.

[silveradept]

Speedy is currently not happening (it looks like this one will take at least the proper recommended amount of rest time,) but complete is still on the table, and is the more important one.