Yes, it finally happened. After not missing a day of work for two years, I caught the bug. I went two weeks without vitamins, I'd run out of Cod Liver Oil and that broke my vitamin habit each monrning. ON THE DAY I got Cod Liver Oil from Amazon, I started having symptoms of a slight cold. The next day, the boss made me get tested, I was positive. I remain convinced my vitamin supplements kept me healthy for almost two years. I was convinced I was immune, but my immunity seems conditional on my vitamin supplements.

Will I make the fall Dragon? Only if I can get a negative COVID test on Tuesday the 28th. If that test is not negative, I will cancel my flight. If I get a negative test on Wednesday the 29th, I will drive to the Dragon. Other than that, it will go on without me.

Here is my update for those curious:

I woke to so many texts and PMs asking how I am doing - it is truly comforting to know that I matter to so many people. I cannot answer them all, so for those who are on FB, here you go.
Day four of symptoms.

I slept 11 hours, CPAP reports score of 1.1, the lowest it has been in a few years, I assume this is stress causing my throat to be "taught" and allowing me to breath better -this is an advantage of the condition I
wish would last forever. I slept so well, I woke only once in that time for the bathroom.

My runny nose is almost gone. My cough is less, so far today. I'm sneezing more again. The very slight headache still comes and goes as it has since Monday.

My temperature is 98.9, given my normal is 97.7, I will call this a possible, potential 1 degree fever, as my temp is often above 98.0 but only in the afternoon.
I have no other symptoms, other than being able to sleep very easily - not an altogether bad feeling.

ONE LAST ITEM: I really thought I had just a cold and the "test" was not accurate. But fact is, I can't taste my cod liver oil (and it's RANCID) and bacon has little flavor, it tasted fine yesterday morning. My flavored water and B12 mix has only a slight taste as opposed to yesterday. My vitamin C tablet tasted strong as it always does.

Yea, I have this "COVID" bug. But I still almost feel guilty for not going to work. In fact, I have remote site PMs I can do without contact with others, and will probably work later this week and next week doing that. But I want my "Fever" and headaches gone before I stop sleeping ten hours a day, I think the sleep is GOOD for me!

 

Best wishes for a rapid recovery.

 

Mark I admire your honesty in this post, but I cannot believe that the vitamins kept the Covid bug away and give you any meaningful immunity to the virus. Immunity is obtained the hard way like you or by having the Covid vaccinations.
Even with the full Covid shots there is still the opportunity to get the virus. Not having the vaccinations puts you and those close to you in danger of catching the virus from you. Even Mr T said to get vaccinated.
Wear a mask in groups and get vaccinated, who knows the life you save may be your own or someone dear to you.
Get well bud and best wishes, I truly would hate to hear that you were the latest death in the US.

 

I hope you recover quickly. I am glad that you have a mild case and are sleeping better than ever!

 

Last year I had one of my posts pulled because it was deemed too alarmist about the Covid virus, now with close to 700,000 US deaths from the virus I wonder if it was alarmist enough. I was warned that any similar posts would be pulled as well. I kept a copy of that warning.

 

Take it easy and get well soon!

 

My wife and I enjoyed the Covid experience back in February of 2020 before anyone knew what it was. At one month before my 74th birthday it was a hoot.
101F temperature. i couldn't taste or smell for three days. Not even the cure all hillbilly medicine from Scotland. Lasted almost a week.
Sleep,???, hardly.
As someone with years of medical training, I legally cannot say the Glenfiddich was therapeutic, but it did help. So did having O2 on hand.

I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone.

As for vitamins, I agree with 180 about the vitamins and immunity. I religiously take my supplements all the time. I did not miss my daily doses. However, I do credit them with being healthy as the reason I did survive. Apparently without harm.
For the record, vitamins and supplements are not items one takes to regain health but to keep it. They will not stave off illness but will improve your body's ability to function and react quickly to invasive pathogens. Which quite honestly is what the COVID-19 vaccine actually does.

In the true definition of a "vaccine," it is not. But it could make the difference if you are exposed.

 

exactly frank!

 

Thanks, Dave.

Honesty is what I taught my sons. I live it every day. I have been outspoken about a lot of things, COVID, vitamins, etc. The fact I've had strong opinions does not negate my honesty, it cannot be allowed to do so, because my character is too important to me. AND, truth is important - perhaps my telling you all of what is going on with me will benefit someone else. But it can't do that if I don't tell the truth; ALL of the truth.

I am convinced. I have been taking everything (except Zinc) since before this started. I only added D3 on advice of a chemist in March of 2020.

I once knew an elderly man in the 70's. The old guy never got sick - he attributed this to daily cod liver oil, and his kids all agreed -even tho they would not take it!
I started on it in 1977 and EVERY time I've got a cold or flu (or COVID), I was off my CLO! This time included - two weeks without ANY vitamins and I'm sick. This after almost 1 1/2 years of: No mask, no missed work, no hand washing, etc.

I cannot deny my own five or six decade life experience, Dave. And I believe strongly in natural immunity.

 

Get well Mark!
I'm glad that I'm retired and a homebody. Helps me to hide from the "C".
Gotta go take my vitamins now. Later!

 

thanks Mark, ,get through this, please. we will be praying for you and anyone that gets it.
Here is how I look at it. My wife and i have not eating inside a restaurant since march of 2020, in all my cars i carry a bottle of alcohol and we wipe everything from gas station pump handles to groceries and everything I touch. we wear a mask everywhere we go,and when we come in contact with people. we will throw the mask on. Friends and family ask us to go out to dinner and when i say ,only if they have outside seating, and the outside seating just started with us in July of 2021, some get upset and say, things that sounds like they are mad at us for being careful. why are we so careful , our grandkids, could there be a better reason, we got our shots in Jan.2021 and plan to get our booster asap, we had a family member pass with covid, she did no get the covid shot. I urge anyone and everyone to get the damn shot.
99,7 of the new cases are people who did not get the shot. in my granddaughter's school ( thank god she is home schooled,) a young girl 9 years old is not doing so good, and one teacher died from covid. and i am sure you know someone that died from covid also.
in 1918 the spanish flu was a natural occurrence , that lasted just under 3 years , they had no vaccine. this one is man made, we do have a vaccine, how long will it last? i think we have another one to two years. Covid in not political, it is a virus.
I am lost for words to tell you how we fill ,( my wife and I ) to put in in print is harder than i thought

 

Wise words, I agree with you wholeheartedly, vaccine and masks save lives.
Man-made not so much. There are too many conspiracy theories going about and they interfere with beating this damn bug into submission.

 

DAY FIVE:

Woke to no symptoms. Temp normal, I feel fine. Sense of taste still feels a little off, maybe, hard to say.
This was a very mild experience for me - given my family history with colds and flu, I am not surprised it was so mild.

I will get a COVID test Tuesday and, if negative, I will attend the Dragon;. if not, I will be at Fontana in the spring.

 

My doctor mentioned this yesterday, in our six or seven emails exchanged in one day.

He said, and I quote: "The reference to the shots as a 'vaccine' has caused confusion and suspicions that did not need to happen. There is no vaccine, the shots work like the antibody infusion, they do not prevent you from getting COVID, they only help you fight it."

Were it not for this asinine mis-use of words, I think we'd have been better off. I have a female friend running around telling people "I'm fully vaccinated". She believes that ****, when she gets COVID, she will probably turn into a conspiracy theorist. Sad, isn't it?

 

[QUOTE=pizzaguy;961192]My doctor mentioned this yesterday, in our six or seven emails exchanged in one day.

He said, and I quote: "The reference to the shots as a 'vaccine' has caused confusion and suspicions that did not need to happen. There is no vaccine, the shots work like the antibody infusion, they do not prevent you from getting COVID, they only help you fight it."/QUOTE]
Mark, u r so right and if that little antibody infusion that i got will help my grandchildren no get this virus then i will do it over and over .
you are a very lucky man being that u got the covid ,,very mild and you are getting better,,,a big and ,,,you have the best antibodies. ok now i can pry for someone else now right LOL.. jim

 

Day Six:

I have the cough, but all other symptoms seem to be gone. My sense of taste is a bit off.
I'm laying low till about Tuesday.