I'm only about 80% 12 days in. Still need a nap in the afternoons. If I try to push past I throw up and get dizzy. Did get monoclonal antibodies at day 6 and not sure I would have felt better without them.

Vaxxed, not boosted, third trimester pregnant.

Vaxxed, not boosted, third trimester pregnant.

Saturday, Dec 18: Kiddo wakes me up at 4am when the storms roll in. I start coughing which isn't unusual for me in rain storms. We have a bay window window that gets musty when it rains. My in-laws were coming in a few days so I had been busting butt to get the house clean and all the Christmas stuff one has to do before the kids were out of school. I spent Saturday exhausted and drained, but stopped coughing once I got out of bed.

Sunday, Dec 19: Woke up feeling pretty good. Got more deep cleaning done. Sent the kids to my parents for the day so we could use the good chemicals to clean. They came back in the evening, I laid down in bed to watch them take a bath around 6pm… physically couldn't get up after that. Husband had to do bedtime which he grumbled about. I took my temperature and it was 99.6. I fell asleep shortly thereafter.

Monday, Dec 20, 3am: I woke up with the worst sinus pressure I've ever had. Temp was hanging out right about 100 (highest it got was 100.3). I wanted to pull out all my teeth. My mouth was so dry it had a layer of white film. I got in the bath and all I could do was cry because my head hurt so much. Regular Tylenol couldn't touch it and that's all the pain medicine I'm allowed during pregnancy without calling the OB first to clear it. Finally around 5-6am I fell asleep in bed sitting up and managed a few hours of sleep. Tested around 10am and it was positive. Sinus pressure continued through the day but was a little better when I was sitting up/moving around.

Tuesday, Dec 21: That night was equally bad and now I was getting sores in my mouth and cracking on my lips from the dry mouth. I could drink 100oz of water during the day and it did nothing for me. Still never got a true fever. Just a lot of congestion and coughing. Never got a sore throat either. Lungs hurt a little bit at the end of today and I started to worry it was going to turn. Never did though.

Wednesday, Dec 22: Lost taste and smell and brain fog set in hard. I couldn't function for more then 10-20 minutes at a time. Light hurt. Sound hurt. I couldn't watch a whole 30 minute TV show. Couldn't play a video game with the kids on the other side of the living room. Lots of napping. Sinuses started to get better though and I could sleep a little more at night.

Thursday & Friday: more of the same as Wednesday. The cold symptoms got to about 60% better and just stopped improving. Brain fog was getting a little worse and was starting to scare me. I was scheduled for monoclonal antibodies at 4pm on Friday and I couldn't drive there myself safely. However, those were a godsend. I hate that it's been weaponized and politicalized. I really think I would have been hospitalized without those because there was no other mechanism to get better. When I got back in the car, I wanted food which is the first time I had been hungry in a few days. My husband said in the drive-thru that I seemed more alert and less like a puddle of goo.

Today, Thursday, Dec 30: still coughing a little, still sneezing and stuffy but it's more on a manageable "allergy" type level. Mouth is still dry, but the cracks and sores have healed. Taste is trying to come back, I could tell the difference between a Diet Coke and a Pepsi today. Smell is still gone. I still have to take a nap in the afternoon or I throw up and get very dizzy, basically my body forces me to lie down. I would say I'm at 80% now. I have no desire to be around people. The thought of getting sick again makes me anxious. I plan on riding that out until the birth in February and if I'm still struggling with it, reach out to my OB. I do feel mentally garbled from the whole thing, but I'm still insanely drained. I would consider my case moderate: more then just a cold, but the lack of fever really helped. I had a flu 10 years ago where I was a lot sicker for a quick period of time and that's because I had a 103 fever for 48 hours. This is the longest I've been sick with one thing. I will be completely honest, I didn't think COVID would affect me this badly. I don't know how it would have gone for me unvaccinated knowing that I got ass whooped this much.

Damn. Wow. Glad you are on the mend.

Day 1: Aches with mild headache.

Day 2: More aches still mild headache, like never been this achy before. That night developed sore throat but slept OK with nighttime cough meds.

Day 3: Sore throat gone, general achiness and headache still there -- everything hurts. 100 degree fever. That night even with nighttime cough meds could only sleep about an hour at a time. Night sweats, an "unproductive cough" all night.

Day 4: Fever broke. Achiness has subsided a bit. Cough still there. Trying not to get my hopes up too much, but hoping this is the tail-end of it.

Day 5: Nope. Achiness still at a mild level, but cough got significantly worse overnight so chest is painful as hell.


2 injections, no booster.