Had a scare earlier... · 3:42pm Dec 16th, 2021
When I started getting sick on Monday and one of those home COVID rapid antigen tests came back positive. But the symptoms didn’t match, as even though I was shortly running a temperature, I had no trouble breathing, my coughing was productive, and I kept my sense of smell. Instead, I was chilled and achy with a yo-yoing fever.
So I took a PCR test at the local drugstore drive-thru, and got the results back last night. Turns out the home test was wrong and I don’t have COVID—as the symptoms suggest, I have the freaking flu. Test came back negative for COVID but positive for Influenza-A. Just another yearly gift from China. 
Regardless, it laid me out good. I’m finally over the hump and starting to get better after three straight days of fever, aches and chills. Needless to say, it’s been a while since I’ve been that sick. The good news, if there was such a thing out of all of this, is that it’s afforded me plenty of time to write. And that’s to the benefit of Feathered Hearts readers.
I guess one moral of the story is, don’t trust those home tests, as I was forced to report its positive test result to my job; they then told me I would not be allowed back for two weeks. I reported the latest negative test results as well, noting that the symptoms certainly match the flu and not COVID. But they probably still won’t let me back before the two weeks are up.
No matter. I certainly don’t object to more time off. Feathered Hearts Chapter 17 will launch tonight; Chapter 18 should launch on Saturday. After that, I’ll try to work on a chapter of Eros in time for Xmas, but the problem there is, being sick doesn’t exactly lend itself to libido or writing clopfics.
Good news and bad news.
Don't push yourself. Perfection don't like to be rushed!
Best of health to you. May you be health soon