#tw: covid

[pastafossa]

Confirmation of life. Covid predictably triggered a flareup of my chronic pain and now even the air hurts. And I can't take what I usually take for pain cause it'll interfere with the cough meds and paxlovid. So I just gotta do my best.

Cato tried to make me feel better. Woke up to about twenty socks on and around the bed that he had apparently brought me while I was sleeping, because he knows I think it's cute when he brings me a sock.

#tw: covid #unfortunately also found out the hard way about 'paxlovid mouth' aka constantly tasting #a really bitter taste that won't go away until i'm done with the pax #my symptoms are bad but at least i'm still at home #i don't want to know how bad this would be without the pax #dad also tested positive so sis is yhd only one still testing neg #but her throat hurts so i suspect she's got it too

[lilac-hecox]

anthony got back from prague like 5 days ago? maybe less and the fact ian seems to be the only person who has covid in the office (except anthony) gives off the vibe that ian was one of the first people anthony saw when he returned 🥹

THAT IS SUCH A GOOD POINT.

I mean, I feel awful that Anthony is sick and that he got Ian sick. I had covid, and it sucked. I was sick for over two weeks and had a cough I couldn't shake. So I hope they are okay.

It is also insanely domestic. Imagine them hanging because Ian missed him and vice versa, and he wanted to show off his tattoos.

Realistically, too did Anthony's girlfriend go with him? Is she sick too? I don't follow her.

#ianthony #the besties #☀️🔍 #tw: covid

[virtie333]

Hey, everyone! I had hoped to have another drabble written and posted by today, but because 2024 is continuing to beat on me right from the start, it's not going to happen. I am super sick. I tested negative for Covid, and in reality it feels like a really bad head cold, but combined with my physical exhaustion after these last two crazy weeks at work, I did not sleep last night and could barely get out of bed this morning. I feel moderately better tonight (outside of the stabbing pain in my head and face), so we'll see how tomorrow goes.

Sadly, no writing or reading for the time being.

#personal post #tw: covid #sick posting #i got some pretty picture today though #i'll share those later

[cryptidclaw]

Sorry I haven't been posting much actual content ... turns out I was sick with COVID????

I'm fine now and nolonger contagious! But it has left me EXAUSTED and kinda unmotivated currently :P

I've got some art in my drafts waiting to be posted, I just gotta finish the writing parts of the posts heh...

Hopefully soon I will be back to posting soon though!!

#have patience i am sleepy so very sleepy #updates #the fawkin covid tests didnt pick up on covid at the beginning??? only found out when my mom took a different kind??? absolutely fucked #tw: covid

[treesusedtotalktome]

please get better soon </3

#traumacore #actually traumatized #actually mentally ill #ventcore #sadcore #tw: sickness #tw: covid #tw: hospital #hospitalcore #please dont repost

[devilscastle69]

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my therapist was like horrified yesterday when I listed all the fucked up things that happened this week and was speechless and idk I feel like I gotta be nicer to myself. like j this week alone i was concerned asf for the safety of one of my family members and it was awful and I have a coworker telling other coworkers that she wants to confront me and or scream at me or otherwise start w me bc I told on her for not wearing a mask even tho she suspects she has COVID the day after I was forced to be around her for almost an hour. (And after all that she was asked to wear a mask and angrily refused and started telling ppl that she thinks I told on her and started lying about how our interaction went. Like some high school bs) she used all of her sick days on a cruise. I like just got over bronchitis after 2 months and like just stopped medication for that two weeks ago. I just like am tired of ppl being like fuck u idc if u get exposed to another illness that’s gonna hurt so bad it’ll make u want to die or actually yk. Like being in and out of fight/flight for so long is exhausting regardless of whether it’s an over reaction or not.

Idk I just think we weren’t designed to live like this and it’s okay to not do everything. I just wanna be able to live like this w all the good things I have for longer while being healthy

#not snz #tw: covid #tw mental illness

[choices-binglebonkus]

My boss went on a cruise last week and didn’t test for Covid. Only just now is he testing because his sister in law tested positive.

He and I worked together yesterday.

I have asthma and post-Covid.

Let’s see how fucked I am.

#fuck man. #not again #tw: covid #not choices

[pollenallergie]

it’s confirmed i don’t have covid, but whatever virus/infection this is… it’s kicking my ass. i felt so weak and shaky today (i mean, i’m normally slightly shakier and weaker than the average person on a good day, but today it was just… it was awful. lifting the toast to my mouth to eat breakfast this morning was noticeably arduous, which is definitely not the norm for me). my chest hurts so bad and the (tw: gross) mucus situation is abhorrent (i’ve woken up from choking on it every single night for the past three days). the fatigue has been unreal today (again, i’m normally fairly fatigued on an average day, but today was just awful, it was so sooo much worse than my typical level of fatigue). no fever, but the body aches and chills have been insane (especially this morning). i’ve missed so many lectures and so many days of work. ughhh i am so ready for this to be over.

#personal #tw: illness #tw: covid #tw: complaining #seriously so much complaining but my social support system got totally uprooted this summer so for now you guys are pretty much all i’ve got

[overobsessedfanboy23]

So uh.

I'm sick. Most likely with Covid since everyone else I live with caught it. I did absolutely everything in my power not to catch it too but... it happened anyways. I got all the vaccinations I was supposed to get so I should be fine after resting a while but I am going to be taking a break from posting until I feel better.

@dailyjudaiyuki I scheduled posts for the next week or so though.

#tw: covid #covid

[jerk-bitch-67]

Making Friends

How does one make friends as an adult? I'm not a churchgoer, I'm not a member of any organization, I don't really have any hobbies, so where the heck am I supposed to make friends? I act in my local theaters, but, once the play is over, you don't talk to those people any longer. My best friend of 33 years died in December from COVID and she was the only friend I had left. Now I just feel lonely a lot and long for a friend to go do things with and hang out with. I love my husband, A LOT, but he is a guy who likes to stay home and tinker on his projects. He goes out with me all the time, but I feel bad making him be the substitute for my friend. He doesn't have any friends either and I wish he could make some guy friends as well. But HOW the HELL do you make friends as an adult?

#tw: covid #tw: death #making friends as an adult #how???

[pastafossa]

Well I did a telehealth call and got a script for Paxlovid (and he gave me another script for some strong cough meds). So that will hopefully shorten the time I'm sick + reduce symptoms.

Now it's just otc treat the symptoms, rest, ride it out, and hope it doesn't decide to play ball with my chronic illnesses (doctor's biggest concern).

#tw: covid #i'm really hoping the pax will keep me out of the hospital #being chronically ill in a pandemic sucks donkey eggs

[accidentalmistress]

COVID is not yet finished with me, but I think today I'm finally turning the corner. The sore throat I have had with this is the worst I've ever had. In my adult life, at least. I was seriously starting to get concerned that I also had strep on top of everything. But the pain is starting to back off, I think. My voice seems to swing between "smokes six packs a day" and "awkwardly going through puberty".

I have not sneezed. NOT EVEN ONCE. If I'm gonna be sick, at least give me that T^T

I haven't been sick since like 2019, so this has sucked a lot, but it did give me the chance to try out some pine cone syrup I made last year. I had heard it was good when you have a cold, so I've been putting it in tea, and it's rather delightful. By itself it's surprisingly fruity and tart, and in the tea it's subtly sweet. It has a resinous quality to it as well that sort of coats your mouth and teeth. I didn't find it unpleasant, though. I have not tried eating the pine cones themselves. Yet.

So, yeah. Pine cone syrup. Stick that in your sick fics.

#not snz #reed life update #i'm not dead yet #tw: covid

[princesssarisa]

Thinking again about one aspect of "Little Women"

I've posted about this before, but that was long ago, so I'll do it again.

I've been briefly looking over the various modernized adaptations of Little Women: the 2018 film, the two web series The March Family Letters and The Attic, the graphic novels Jo and Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, and the middle grade novel More to the Story.

Of course, all these modernized adaptations change Beth's illness, since scarlet fever is now easily cured with antibiotics. The 2018 film, the two graphic novels, and More to the Story all give her cancer instead, while in The March Family Letters she has anemia, and in The Attic she was born with a heart condition.

All these changes leave out some important aspects of the original Beth's scarlet fever:

(1) It could have been prevented.

(2) She contracts it from the children of a poor single immigrant mother, who didn't seek medical attention because she couldn't afford to. So there's social commentary in it.

(3) In a case of tragic irony, it's Beth's kindness that causes her illness, because she contracts it while caring for a family in need, whom the other sisters don't bother to visit while Marmee is away.

(4) It's framed as being partly Meg and Jo's fault. They had scarlet fever as children, so they're immune. If they had been the ones to visit the Hummels instead of Beth (which they probably should have anyway, as the two eldest – it shouldn't have been their little 14-year-old sister's job), she would have been safe. So her illness teaches them the ultimate lesson in responsibility.

So is there a way to modernize it that doesn't lose those aspects?

In an especially modern setting (that is, within the last three years), Beth could catch COVID-19 from the Hummels. Meg and Jo could have already had mild cases and recovered, or already be vaccinated while Beth isn't yet. Then Beth could have long COVID.

But that wouldn't be a perfect fit. In the first place, having COVID once doesn't grant permanent immunity, nor do vaccines grant full immunity, so it still would be a risk to Meg and Jo too. Secondly, it would be kind but also very irresponsible of Beth to expose herself to COVID that way, and even worse of Meg and Jo to let her do it. At least in the original Little Women, there's no pandemic of scarlet fever going on, and neither Beth nor the others realize that the Hummels' sickness is scarlet fever and not just a commonplace sore throat until the baby dies.

Maybe another alternative could be to omit any sickness. Beth just goes to babysit the Hummel children because their mother has to work long hours. She asks Meg and Jo to do it, but they make excuses out of laziness. While she's there, the baby crawls into the street and is almost hit by a car; Beth runs out to save him and is hit by the car instead and permanently paralyzed.

But maybe that would be too melodramatic.

Maybe it's not really so bad to substitute cancer, anemia, or a congenital heart defect for the scarlet fever and to leave out the aspects described above.

In the first place, while the social commentary about disease and poverty is valuable, the fact that it's mainly used to get Beth sick has unfortunate implications: i.e. "Save the lives of the very poor, or those of us in middle-class genteel poverty could catch their diseases too."

Secondly, the tragic irony that Beth is doomed by her kindness might be a bit too much 19th century sentimentality and melodrama for a modern setting. It's also led to some terrible commentary about Beth. "She's too selfless and self-effacing to survive," "This shows that domesticity and nurturing destroy women's lives," etc.

Third, personally, I've always disliked the fact that it's framed as Meg and Jo's fault for not going to the Hummels instead. To me, that feels so heavy-handedly preachy, and too terrible a burden of guilt to put on Meg and Jo for the rest of their lives just for teenage laziness. As far as I've read, it doesn't reflect real life either: Elizabeth Alcott caught scarlet fever while caring for the poor with May (Amy) and their mother, not alone. Anna and Louisa were adults by then, not teenagers, and I've never read any suggestion that they could have gone instead but refused. Louisa presumably just rewrote the situation as "moral pap" for child readers.

Maybe in a modern retelling, for readers or viewers who want less sentimentality than they did in the 19th century and who don't want to be preached to as much, it's better to give Beth a disease that's purely a whim of fate.

@littlewomenpodcast, @thatscarletflycatcher

#little women #beth march #modern adaptations #tw: illness #tw: covid #tw: car accident #tw: death

[simakai]

Welp we thought it was just a cold but after shopping for all the remaining Xmas gifts and food for the receptions we were supposed to receive, we tested positive. So far we're not too bad, le bf has lost some sense of taste and I'm continuously thirsty, but I guess getting our vaccines updated all the time paid off a bit. Just hope I won't lose this entire turkey and the veggies and fruits platters we got today. Should have tested before we bought all that. >_>;;;

#kinda personal #not a covid virgin anymore #tw: covid

[just-an-enby-lemon]

The thing is I have no war flasbacks related to the mention of pandemics because I disassociated most of 2020 and have no memory of the year barr some specific days (the 2021 bit of quarantine was better cause I started college remotly) so now that I got to the episodes where they are remotedly doing it and I'm curious how it might translate to the recordingds.

#tw: covid #tw: pandemic #rqg

[filthypapii]

rather catch c*vid than feelings again. ✌🏻

#dhq.starter #tw: covid