just stay in bed and
read a book – basically you
just suffer through it
Doctors advise resting as much as possible while sick. If you’re up for it, take a lap around the block — “you should not be completely inactive,” Dr. Sax said — but don’t push yourself.
“Some people like to take long walks,” Dr. Smith said. “I just stay in bed and read a book. Basically, you just suffer through it.”
Dr. Davey Smith, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Diego and Dr. Paul Sax, the clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on how to deal with having the FLiRT variant of the COVID virus as quoted in the article, A Guide to Managing Covid This Summer By Dani Blum who joined The Times in 2019 and has reported on Covid-19 since the early days of the pandemic.
Why was I reading this article?
Because after 4 years of NoVid and staying covid free hidden away in the low country (despite being a travel mecca) we finally got the covid.
Along with feeling like we have been run over by a truck, having covid has been as much fun as we ever imagined.
The day I came down with it we had been at the beach and I had been battered by big waves and voiced the opinion that those waves really beat me up.
But it wasn’t the waves beat me up, it was the COVID FLiRT variant.
Oh BOY!
Disappointed that we finally got the crud but I was more surprised at the reaction I got when I went to the local doctor-in-a-box for a professional covid test and to check on the latest covid guidelines.
The clinic I went to said thy don’t do covid tests anymore without an appointment so they can order in a test.
There are no guidelines – stay home if you can – where a mask maybe
They even said that if they, the PA and the Nurse I chatted with, get it, they are expected to be at work if they feel able …
Oh well.
I don’t feel up to taking a lap and getting out for a walk in the 90+ heat and humidity is about as attractive as it sounds.
Luckily, I guess, I can work remotely so I have been all week, but one of these days, when I am sick, I am going to follow Dr. Davey Smith’s advice and just stay in bed and read a book.
And just suffer though this.
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