On Saturday afternoon at about 2pm, I suddenly felt very cold and so I
decided to got to bed for a few hours. Fortunately my wife had added the
electric undersheets to our bed linen, so I could warm up and sleep. I awoke
at 4pm, any my wife brought me a cup of tea; I drank most of it then promptly
vomited.
About an hour or so later, I vomited again, and once again towards the
evening. At this stage I had a fever as well as the vomiting, so apart from
taking acamol, I was prepared to go to the emergency room in Bet Shemesh. My
wife demurred so it was back to bed with a bucket handy. I remember that the
same thing happened about 20 years ago: vomiting four times in the space of
a few hours. I was diagnosed with a throat infection.
There was constant rain all evening long (30 mm for the 24 hour period from
Saturday 8am to Sunday 8am) that sometimes woke me up. At about 1:45pm, I
turned over yet once again ... and promptly vomited for the fourth time.
That's it, I said: we're going to the emergency room. After an examination
and blood taken for tests, the doctor was fairly sure that I was suffering
from a viral infection. A corona swab was taken and this turned out to be
positive. I then was given an infusion, first Pramin (anti-nausea)
then two litres of saline to counteract the dehydration caused by the
vomiting. I had terrible heartburn that was not relieved by omipradex - not
really surprising as the pain was caused by the acid coming back up the
esophagus when I vomited.
After being released at about 4:30am, we came home and I took the dog for a
quick walk so that she could do her business. I didn't know what time I
would awake and thought it best to walk her when I could. After a shower
(during which I removed the stickets from the EEG test), it was to bed I
went - at 5am.
I awoke at about 9:30am on Sunday morning, feeling better although weak. Since then there has
been no more vomiting and no more heartburn, but there has been the
occasional headache.
Of course, the mighty Coronavirus is not what is was like six years ago. I'm not coughing and unlikely to infect anyone. That said, if I go out (and I have a doctor's appointment following blood tests and sleep on Tuesday), I'll wear a mask.
I wonder how and where I became infected.
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