My mom is unsure whether she has a cold or COVID. I’ve been having some stuff with my head for the past couple of days that I thought was migraine-related, except that my migraines only last one day, except for a bit of a “migraine hangover” the next day sometimes. It doesn’t quite hurt, but it feels very uncomfortable. So now I’m wondering if it might be COVID-related, because I know headaches and stuff can be a sign of COVID.
My immune system is overall very hardy, my body is very reluctant to run a fever, I have no doubt that if I got it, I would only get a mild case. And if not, well, if it’s my time to go, that’s that. I really don’t care at all whether I have it or not. I just don’t want to be responsible for giving it to anyone else.
Forgot to mention that I also started feeling run down today, which leads me to suspect that whatever my mom has, I’m getting it, too. And I’m pretty sure it’s a cold since it seems to mostly be upper respiratory stuff for her.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"