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Covid-19 did not kill Jane but it'll be a long road to recovery

Update: the road to recovery is shorter than I had expcted for her....This is a quick update on my last post. In that post I said that Jane had caught Covid-19 at hospital while she was recovering from an alcoholic binge. In hospitals in the UK they test you all the time for Covid. Anyway, she recovered in hospital from the worst of the symptoms and is now at home. She says that she lacks energy. She says that Covid is a terrible disease and she is very fatigued and unable to do almost anything.


I am vaccinated and I will be doing some research on how infectious a person is after contracting the disease and recovering from it. There must be a time when on the path to recovery a person is no longer infectious. My vaccination was about two weeks ago so I have one more week before I am properly immunised. The booster in about 10 weeks time will immunise me some more.

That's about it for the update. Let's just say that Jane pulled through and is on the slow road to recovery. She is quite a robust person. I guess she has to be with the amount of alcohol that she consumes on these binges. Her stomach suffers at the end of a binge because of the neat vodka sloshing around it. That always causes a problem and the doctors always check it out with cameras, scratch their heads and then eventually she settles down.

Nothing more the say at this time. She is not drinking and let's pray she fully recovers, gets on her feet before she starts the next binge.

Update: 5-4-21 : She is well and recovering. She says that she has a loss of taste and smell. Her fitness is returning. She runs daily. She is doing well. 

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