Dodging COVID — How it Finally Caught up With Me.

We can all agree that the last two years have been what some would say, challenging.

Personally, I think they’ve been utterly unbearable. From losing family members to being unable to travel, I feel like my 20’s have been completely lost. The only upside in this whole mess was that I thought I had managed to dodge COVID. I started the year off with a bang, bought a diary, was on a complete roll with achieving my fitness goals, over two solid weeks of meaningful activity and closing all my rings on my Apple Watch.

Fast forward to the 17th of January 2022, I get COVID.

It is day four with COVID and I honestly feel okay, the first night was a different story.

I had all the symptoms: sore throat, headache, fever, chills, body aches, cough and loss of taste.

Day two and three did not get any better, I was hot and bothered, sore and more importantly exhausted. I know COVID hits people differently but man, I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. Day four (today) I feel somewhat like myself, the headache is dull and I can taste again…. too bad I’m not hungry.

So with all of this going on I wondered to myself, “how did I dodge it for so long?”. The Omicron variant is far more transmissable and I knew it was a matter of when not if, but I had to ask “why me” and “why now?”

All I can put it down to is that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I work in retail, I am surrounded by the public everyday, it was only a matter of time. Five days before I came down with COVID

My manager tested positive at work, we interacted that day. I can only assume it was from him.

Now, the scary thing about this interaction was that we were together in close proximity for about ten minutes, that’s it. Ten minutes, masked up whilst I was being shown the new open routine.

When I found out he was positive I was angry and scared.

How could this man be so careless and come to work with symptoms and only think to test himself at work?

He put so many people at risk that day, so many. The sad reality is, that, he is just one of thousands doing the same thing unknowingly or knowingly everyday.

Sitting locked away in my room for the last several days has been so boring and sad. On the flipside, it has given me a chance to reflect on me and what I want to do with my year ahead. I have re-evaluated my goals and I am ready to tackle this uncertain year ahead with the certainty that I am going to better me.

So how did I catch COVID?

Well, it’s simple, it was unfortunately inevitable.