As a supermarket owner we have continued to be on the front line right from the very beginning of this. I took it on myself along with my brother and our managers to man the doors and limit entry at the start of the pandemic. We knew this was putting us at greater risk but didn’t feel right making staff do this.
Anyway roll forward to May’20 and I caught the virus without knowing it, only got a headache for about 4 days but as I did suffer them regularly I never thought anything of it but within the week the son and wife showed symptoms with the son taking it quite bad though not needing hospitalisation. As soon as it was confirmed we all isolated.
Son improved over the next 6 days and the wife like me didn’t get it bad at all. About 6 weeks later different effects on our bodies started to happen, in my case headaches and calf cramp which lasted for about 5-6 weeks, then over the next months up till Jan’21 at different times there was joint pain, insomnia, dizzy and the weirdest one which was like the very nerve ends on my head were so sensitive, even the slightest touch of my hair was extremely sore. None of these symptoms lasted more than 2-3 weeks at a time but one constant one was regular low oxygen levels ranging from 95 down to 89.
The son and wife and also had all of the above as well as losing the nails on both big toes which turned black and then fell off, the wife also suffered hair lose too. One thing I never suffered but has affected both of them is high heart rates despite sitting doing absolutely nothing, the other day the son who’s disabled woke and shouted on his mum to check his heart rate as he felt it was racing, it read 149bpm and this lasted for 2 hrs, this happens regularly and today the wife’s rate was at 130bpm.
The doctor get all of bloods checked out and they found the son’s iron levels had dropped like a stone, the wife had an overacting thyroid and mine showed high cholesterol which is most bizarre as in the past mine has been extremely low and I’m a regular gym goer 3 times a week and eat a healthy diet, never drink pop and only drink water.
Just a typical day’s reading for me.
I get rather uptight when I read ones dismissing the virus and the need for a vaccine, clearly they haven’t had it or had a family member with it. This virus is very real and I actually fear for the long term affects it will have especially on the younger ones.