It doesn't look like I posted about it at the time, but I caught some respiratory bug in early April, a few days after my only recent "social" event around the time (visit to GP physio, nobody coughing in pretty empty waiting room, guess I picked it up from stair hand rails and forgot to wash hands when I got home), which left me in a mess for ~2 weeks and getting back into exercise wasn't easy. I did a couple of covid tests from our old kits, but both were negative. Better half caught it from me ~4 days later and got over the worst of it in ~7 days, so half the time it took me, but perhaps her immune system has improved a little from her long covid days and she's been back at work almost two years now (albeit still with the odd fatigue crash).
At the start of last week, better half started obvious symptoms of another respiratory bug, apparently something has been going round the nhs wards she works in. Nose, throat, fatigue and lungs with lots of regular coughing since it began. The coughing frequency reminded me of the day I came home from work in mid March '20 and as soon as I opened the door, wondered if this was the dreaded "continuous cough" talked about for covid (it was).
Surprisingly, it took over 7 days for me to feel I was definitely coming down with something, after feeling like the start of something around day 4 after better half's symptoms began. So far only nose a bit; throat feels weird like it's covered in phegm; weird taste in mouth; definite lungs issue; more fatigued than normal. But far less coughing than other half, every time I've knowingly had covid I barely coughed.
It this latest illness covid? Could be, but no test kits left.
More than anything, I'm really annoyed about catching two respiratory illnesses in a single spring for first time in years and so soon after each other.
