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Writer's pictureCym Glasheen

Getting Covid-19 (in summer 2022)

I’m slightly embarrassed getting it for the first time, in not only summer but in 2022. Isn’t summer supposed to be when cases are low - guess not...


Anyways, I’m doing alright, and even if I wasn’t I would probably say, I was okay because that’s what I do when it comes to sickness - I hate feeling weak.


My fiancé, Sean is the best at being sick! Honestly - it makes me super jealous. He had covid all last week and he had no issue calling in sick to work, laying on the couch every day resting, AND it wasn’t until he felt better, that he cleaned the entire apartment. (How lucky am I??)


What I truly admire, is his ability to say how he really feels when it comes to being sick - I give him a hard time and call him a baby (which is the case sometimes) but he never lies about how he really feels.


Sean + I dancing to the new Drake album a week prior to getting covid


I, on the other hand, could have a fever, runny nose, cough - and be like yeah I’m good it’s just a little cold no big deal when really I am struggling. I’m getting better about telling people how I am really doing but it has taken a lot of practice.


For starters - I told my boss right after finding out I tested positive and was immediately “given permission” from her to take the time I need to recover. As a hype achiever - that permission was a massive weight off my shoulders. I never realized in the past how much this could mean to me because I usually “powered through” my sickness, but getting that reminder that it’s okay to slow down and rest to recover meant the world to me.


Along with this permission from my boss, I also gave myself some permission to rest and recover. I rescheduled my calls from Tuesday afternoon to later in the week and signed off early. I shut my laptop and napped for almost 2 hours!! Clearly, I needed the rest.


It’s been challenging to take this week to slow down given my brain is like go go go go go be productive. This morning, for example, I thought I had it in me to go for a morning walk and boy was I wrong. I was exhausted and had to return home 5 mins in - clearly a waste of my limited energy.


I am not great at taking breaks even when I am healthy and covid free but currently, as much as this sucks, it's been nice to have this time to take a note or two out of Sean’s book and learn that it’s okay unproductive when you are sick.

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