You'll be shocked when your doctor tells you that this is likely a mild case of COVID-19. The author, pictured on Sunday, March 22, 2020, in a homemade face mask. If you can, do turn down the light on your phone. You're bloated and sore and your head hurts too much to find your phone to track them down. What did you touch? Who did this to you? Curse him, or her, or them. when the headache becomes piercing.Ībout this time, you’re wondering where you got coronavirus. You’re wondering how you deal with the bloated stomach from drinking too much water, the chest pressure, your legs and back aches, the burning throat. You’ll now start to feel like a 50-lb kid is standing on your chest. (If you don’t have a hot water bottle, try a liter soda bottle with hot water in it.) I tried hot tea and water bottles and I still shivered.

Advil and hot baths won’t touch this kind of ache, and it lasts for days.ĭid you lie down to feel better? Grab a blanket, because the chills and fever are coming. Sitting up hurts your back and your legs ache. Ready for the good part? To recap, your head hurts, your throat hurts and burns, and now body aches will start in all of your large muscles. The rest of you might start to smell too, but soon you won’t care. And - this was a surprise to me - your urine will smell really pungent, as if you drank sewage. You’ll feel thirsty, and drink a lot of whatever is on hand. You’ll be surprised how much it hurts, and ice packs won’t help. Soon your eyeballs will really hurt, and feel larger than their sockets, like a Warner Brothers cartoon character who gets surprised. You’ll start to feel really tired, and get a bit of a headache behind your eyes, no big deal. The sore throat feels like you've been smoking menthol cigarettes when you already have a cold.

I know you’re on the way out the door, so I’ll just tell you what’s coming. I’ve been locked up in my house for 10 days now, my kids and I in quarantine and dealing with symptoms of COVID-19. It’s cool, but I want to share a little bit of wisdom with you first. You’ve been sent home so coronavirus doesn’t spread. This essay has been adapted from those tweets. On March 24, seeing on social media that people were blatantly ignoring social distancing guidelines, she posted a thread on Twitter explaining her symptoms and her time in quarantine. Her doctor is calling hers a “presumed” case, and she will be tested as soon as kits are available. She’s been remotely monitored by physicians, but because of the scarcity of testing kits, she hasn’t been able to confirm that she has the disease.

Within hours, she was battling symptoms consistent with COVID-19. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) This article is more than 2 years old.Įditor’s note: On March 16, Kat Powers started feeling unwell. A sign in Inman Square in Cambridge urging residents to stay home during the Coronavirus epidemic, March 25, 2020.

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