It happened again and right before my 35th birthday—I got Covid, again. Though it’s different this time, I know that the medicine Paxlovid doesn’t necessarily have the greatest record when it comes to side effects including metallic mouth and whatnot—though the worst parts have to be the congestion and the fact I gotta self quarantine from work for three days including on my birthday. At least I have floating holidays to make up for the time I’m missing which is a lot.
Doesn’t mean I didn’t celebrate my birthday earlier last week with my husband–he took me to Animepop and Books Kinokuniya which is a giant Japanese manga/anime bookstore– I’ll just share what I got and see if you know the games, the anime etc; they are all from!
Though I imagine that not working for nearly 5 days is driving me crazy and I’ve been itching to get back but that won’t happen until Saturday which is…only another two days away but hopefully with the meds I’m taking for this Covid infection and congestion, along with the rash I had/have on my belly button (which is even weirder than anything imaginable), meds have been my constant companions. Sad as that sounds but you know who’s not upset about all this time alone and time home? My dog, Marley. She’s been extremely elated that I’ve been home and has made full use of the whole situation—bug me constantly and I’ve been fine with that because she’s growing older at nearly 10 this year and I’ve considered to always make her the most happiest.
Got a lot of gifts today, too! And a lot of messages of “Happy birthday” which is validating to me and the fact that I’m back on the blogosphere again which makes this wholly special to me. This year has been hell from the year of being sick around Valentine’s Day and now? What luck is this? I don’t know. Bad luck, maybe. Either way, I’m more than elated things are getting better at work though with my department head retiring which I’m not sure I mentioned, but it will change everything at work. Hopefully for the better because I do love my job and love everything I’ve done there/established there with my customer base and my relationships with the people that I work with.
This birthday, while could be marred in trauma due to my sickness, hasn’t diminished my hope and love for my birthday every year. I’m grateful for this, and somehow my dad surprised me with taking me out along with my husband Jose to a nice sort of western-mexican style restaurant; and I got dressed up for the occasion!
Thank you for all your birthday wishes and comments on my previous post! ^^ I appreciate it so much.
I’m sorry to hear you were suffering with COVID. 😞 I managed to stay clear of it until last Winter. It was horrid! We don’t have to self isolate anymore here, which I think is daft. We’re only permitted to stay home if we’re actually very sick with it. Happy Belated Birthday! I’m glad you managed to have a good one, all things considered. I love Western style Mexican food! Your dress is very cute, too.
Once again happy birthday! I’m so sorry you were ill for it. That sounds really awful, but at least you still managed to have a nice birthday! Take care!
I’ve only had covid once, about a year and a half ago. It was bad but not so bad that I had to be hospitalized. I think I had 2 vaccines by then. It’s not fun. I know it’s been close to a month now based on the date of this post, but I hope you have recovered well. It sucks it was over your birthday too but it sounds like you got some celebration in just before you got sick. Happy belated birthday!