The dreaded lurgy…

So this happened on Wednesday…

In this case there’s nothing unknown about the illness however, it was definitely COVID. We had an email on Monday saying that several people staying in north housing (where I was) had tested positive to COVID. I was tried and had a headache, but I put that down to the long hours at IC, not COVID symptoms. Tuesday, I had the full shebang. Headache, Fever, Cough etc. So with some trepidation I took a RAT test, but it was negative. So I though, maybe it’s just the flu. But after a horrible Tuesday night trying to sleep and still having definite COVID symptoms on Wednesday I wanted to ignore it, but I decided to do the right thing and take a test. You can see the result on the left. So this catapulted me from one more night in Boston to five days of isolation and then another five til I can travel (from the date of the first symptoms, so Sunday). Not fun.

I’ll tell you about my revised trip plans, and all the cancellation and isolation fun in a later post, as I still have IC stories to catch up on, but wanted to give this update first. Stay tuned.