Posted on 01/11/2022 7:29:49 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Forgive me if this post is full of grammatical and other mistakes and is just poorly written. I am not feeling well.
I just wanted to get this out there quickly in an effort to warn people about something and save them from sadness.
My family got Covid over the holidays but didn't recognize it in time in my father's case.
I have read posts by others here lately about their Covid experiences in which they describe having "flu-like symptoms," which can mean a few different things to different people, depending on whether you take it as the stomach flu or influenza with respiratory symptoms, aches, and tiredness.
Others describe having a cough/cold/congestion, a sore throat and headache.
For my family, it started as intestinal upset and no stuffiness, aches, tiredess, headache or anything like a cold. It felt like we had eaten something "off." We had shared a dessert at a restaurant that, to me anyway, tasted a bit "off."
It took over a week for me to get the cold-like symptoms in a way I could notice them apart from my usual allergies and a couple days later to lose my taste and smell. My aunt and father never really got anything in the way of feeling like having a cold before complaining about shortness of breath.
She ended up in the hospital. My father didn't make it. He went down quickly. He had not been in good health for years, mental and physical, including obesity, and I think the regular flu would have taken him out.
“The claim that omicron is “mild” isn’t panning out.”
Not sure about that.
ACE2 receptora are also in the olfactory epithelium and remember Delta is still around.
Omicron seems not to mess with your tast buds.
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