I think I had Covid

So after posting today’s year end wrap up I just happened to glance at last year’s post on this day and saw it was titled “Cardboard”.  I had no recollection of what I was referring to a year ago so I took a peek.  When I did I was a bit flabbergasted.  In the post I described how I had been feeling sick for over a week and all of a sudden a new symptom showed up, loss of taste, everything tasted like cardboard.  Now at that time it was not widely known that loss of taste was an almost 100% indicator that you have covid.  My thought at the time was that I possibly was having a Bells Palsy relapse which also caused me to lose taste.  I never redeveloped Bells Palsy but I did have no taste and lingering sickness for awhile.

I have read accounts that covid was actually in the United States way before the alarm bell was sounded in March. This makes me feel it was certainly here for awhile.  I recall my brother telling me how sick he also was last December and when my sisters family visited in February they had all been deathly ill the two weeks prior.  It was quite shocking for me to make this realization that I likely already had the disease I have been trying to avoid for 10 months. Happy New Year to me.