<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Good luck with it. I have read just yesterday about taking more vitamin D3 - a lot more - tons of it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:13 PM Henry Rivera via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span>Friends,</span><br><span></span><br><span>I was surprised to learn yesterday while at work that I’m positive for covid-19. This could put a damper in my life extension plans :-/ </span><br><span></span><br><span>I had worked only a partial day the prior day which was Monday due to recovering from what I thought was a cold that had me in bed most of Saturday and Sunday. From what I can figure out, I likely caught it Tuesday and became symptomatic on Thursday. I didn’t feel great but was able to telework Friday while taking long breaks to lie down. </span><br><span></span><br><span>I have to screen my many direct reports daily for covid at work and am thus familiar with the symptoms. I didn’t think I had it because I never had a fever, never had loss of smell, and never had gastrointestinal symptoms. </span><br><span></span><br><span>If my timing is right, even 9 days after catching it, I still have fatigue, headaches, congestion, and body aches. A sore throat ended over the weekend. My partner who has it too is experiencing a sore throat, congestion, and aches. No fevers for her either. </span><br><span></span><br><span>I’m taking extra vitamin D and NAIDs. I just read about fen</span>ofibrate being potentially helpful today <a href="https://h5.newsbreakapp.com/mp/0Y5mrPI7" target="_blank">https://h5.newsbreakapp.com/mp/0Y5mrPI7 </a>I’d love to avoid some lung damage. I welcome any other suggestions for damage control. I feel like I’m getting better. But I’m definitely still sick. I’m grateful I don’t seem to have too severe a case or complications... yet. I do have risk factors for complications. I’m not in the clear yet. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My two sons don’t have their test results back. They stay at their mother’s part of the time too. I think one of them has it. Depending on those results, it may be an even more isolated xmas now for me. Damn covid! </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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