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The Plague??
Jan. 24th, 2022 01:35 pmI've had a sore throat and erratic cough since... Friday, i think? I tested negative on a self-test on Wednesday evening; negative on a clinical rapid test on Thursday; negative again on a self-test on Friday and Saturday. Saturday I felt fine so did a masked and brief grocery-top-up, before my major online order arrived from the other store.
Sunday I was just tired, faintly sniffly. Someone pointed out that it's hazel pollen season - I don't normally get noticeable allergies (although I do sniffle through winter), but a few times when I've changed location (eg, from Sydney to home) the sudden re-exposure to a pollen that doesn't bug me if it GRADUALLY comes on will knock me around.
Today, though, I woke up at 4am with a definite Sore Throat, headaches, etc. Used the time to get up and call the MyGov helpline in Aus, not that they were any use to me; I eventually troubleshot my own way to re-making my account and linking my medicare record to the new one. Discovered my booster is on the vaccination record but my Swiss vaccines - I specifically went to a PAYING DOCTOR to get them entered! - are not. So I have an Australian certificate saying I've had dose 1 of 2, not the half-size booster dose I actually got. Hopefully the Bernese will let me enter that in *their* records, somehow. I'll work on that tomorrow.
Fed the beast early breakfast and went back to bed, and up again to go get a work-supplied PCR. With my symptoms I'm ELIGIBLE for a government-funded one, but there's no walk-in government testing centre, and afaik the nearest private lab is on the same street as the uni, and more crowded. Figuring i pose less risk to the public on an empty campus than a busy testing lab, off I went. I did not get the gargle liquid up my nose this time, at least.
In a truly mysterious development, i was hit suddenly at 11.30 by ... menstrual cramps? Enough to make me lie down and sulk until painkillers kicked in? (Not terribly bad, I'd have powered through them in the day, but I'm out of practice and already feeling grunky.) Baffing, given I've just gone *on* the mini-pill. Probably not plaugue-induced, although I suppose it could be the not-verified-in-cohort-studies-but-anecdotally-widespread-post-vaccine-menstrual-oddities*.
I am GRUMPY.
* The reason none of this can be verified is that menstrual oddities are very common, and people interpreting any weird shit post vaccine as vaccine-LINKED weird shit is also very common. Also I'd hazard that there are OTHER situational things that will have increased in prevalence at the moment that cause menstrual weirdness (weight gain or loss, and stress, being the two obvious ones).
Sunday I was just tired, faintly sniffly. Someone pointed out that it's hazel pollen season - I don't normally get noticeable allergies (although I do sniffle through winter), but a few times when I've changed location (eg, from Sydney to home) the sudden re-exposure to a pollen that doesn't bug me if it GRADUALLY comes on will knock me around.
Today, though, I woke up at 4am with a definite Sore Throat, headaches, etc. Used the time to get up and call the MyGov helpline in Aus, not that they were any use to me; I eventually troubleshot my own way to re-making my account and linking my medicare record to the new one. Discovered my booster is on the vaccination record but my Swiss vaccines - I specifically went to a PAYING DOCTOR to get them entered! - are not. So I have an Australian certificate saying I've had dose 1 of 2, not the half-size booster dose I actually got. Hopefully the Bernese will let me enter that in *their* records, somehow. I'll work on that tomorrow.
Fed the beast early breakfast and went back to bed, and up again to go get a work-supplied PCR. With my symptoms I'm ELIGIBLE for a government-funded one, but there's no walk-in government testing centre, and afaik the nearest private lab is on the same street as the uni, and more crowded. Figuring i pose less risk to the public on an empty campus than a busy testing lab, off I went. I did not get the gargle liquid up my nose this time, at least.
In a truly mysterious development, i was hit suddenly at 11.30 by ... menstrual cramps? Enough to make me lie down and sulk until painkillers kicked in? (Not terribly bad, I'd have powered through them in the day, but I'm out of practice and already feeling grunky.) Baffing, given I've just gone *on* the mini-pill. Probably not plaugue-induced, although I suppose it could be the not-verified-in-cohort-studies-but-anecdotally-widespread-post-vaccine-menstrual-oddities*.
I am GRUMPY.
* The reason none of this can be verified is that menstrual oddities are very common, and people interpreting any weird shit post vaccine as vaccine-LINKED weird shit is also very common. Also I'd hazard that there are OTHER situational things that will have increased in prevalence at the moment that cause menstrual weirdness (weight gain or loss, and stress, being the two obvious ones).