Lady Jupiter Podcast

Covid Finally Got Me

July 11, 2022 Lady Jupiter Season 1 Episode 78
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Covid Finally Got Me
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Episode № 78 shares my experience getting Covid for the first time. It was bound to happen, right?

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Episode № 78 Covid Finally Got Me

Welcome back everybody!
Lady Jupiter Podcast is the audio accompaniment to LadyJupiter.com a lifestyle blog where I write about my family’s military life, our home life, and other tiny details that I just like to share. I’m happy that you’re here with me.

In this episode I’ll share an update on our life as affected by the U.S. military, then continue with a blog update, and wrap up with something domestic.

Today in our military-affected lives I have nothing significant to update.

The new class has officially started, and I just got to meet some of the new student spouses over Zoom. We do a lot of Zooms anyway, this was just my first one with Covid. I was really happy to hear that the spouses have realistic expectations and support networks in place already. It may not sound like much, but those two little things are greater than their sum.

Otherwise, we have an outdoor social coming up, and I’ll see how my mask looks with my dress. At the time of this recording our local guidelines for what to do after a positive Covid test are to isolate for five days, then wear a mask in public the following five days. As it happens, I have horrendous allergies and I actually like wearing a mask outdoors in Arkansas. I’m very allergic to grass, trees, and weeds, so I would want to wear a mask anyway. Oh, and actually thinking about the location is making me re-think my outfit already. I picked out the dress before knowing the location of the social, and I actually prefer wearing long pants in grass because I am so allergic to it…so maybe I’ll just save the dress for another occasion and wear long pants for the allergic environment instead.

Anyway, I’m certain that we’ll all be recovered by then, but I’ll definitely be wearing a mask, bringing my inhaler, and ready for those blades of grass that seek my destruction.

For today’s LadyJupiter.com update…I’ve been working on some behind the scenes content organization, but nothing particularly visible.

I’ve been using my usual daytime writing time to clean the house a little bit so that I can go to bed as soon as Kid Jupiter goes to bed. I may not be sleeping for 12 hours, but I’m definitely in bed and resting for 12 hours.

And lastly something domestic.

Well, we finally got Covid. I was just getting convinced that Mister Jupiter and I were impossibly immune, because we had so many opportunities to get it in the past. He’s tested several times and always been negative. But our positive tests were done at home, so I don’t know if it’s BA.5 or any other specific strain.

It started last week for me. One morning I woke up with a sore throat, and my Ōura ring showed that my body was stressed. Then my Lumen showed that I was burning mostly carbs first thing in the morning, which is unusual for me. So I took a home test out of curiosity, and it was very positive very quickly.

My symptoms have been mild, and I am obviously thankful for that. I really can’t distinguish between Covid and having a cold right now. I have been exceptionally sneezy, but no fever. My ring tells me now that I am perfectly healthy (my nighttime resting heart rate and heart rate variability are both back to their normal optimal numbers which for me is 50 bpm and 50 milliseconds), and according to Lumen I woke up this morning burning fat like usual… but I am still coughing a lot, I have a headache, and I have plenty of sneezes to go with my runny nose. I’m amazed at how my inhaler calms my urge to cough - it’s the only way I’ve been able to get to sleep - so I’m not back to full health even though my devices say that I am…it’s an interesting discrepancy that I might try to write about.

Otherwise, the men of the house are faring a little better than I am. Their coughs aren’t as frequent as mine, and I’m the only one needing ibuprofen for headaches. So it’s unpleasant, but definitely manageable.

And that’s it for today’s episode.

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