Just my luck. Have been waiting for winter break since the moment school started. Hanging out with my friends that are home from college, going to the gym, having my own free time, Christmas…then boom. A positive covid test sitting right in front of me. Everything completely went down the drain. I even got my booster shot on the Tuesday we got out of school and then 2 days later got covid.
I wish I could explain to you how horrible it is and you would understand. This was brutal. First, by just getting my booster, my arm felt like I was recovering from a gunshot wound. It was worse than my vaccine shot. Then all of a sudden 36 hours later, I start getting chills, a pounding headache, just miserable. As odd as it is, when I got my 2nd vaccine shot, I went to work over 30 hours later and was feeling under the weather and didn’t think too much of it. Until I started to feel lightheaded, I ran around the restaurant I work at to get some water or hide in the bathroom and I ended up passing out behind the front counter. The same thing happened to me when I went to get my nails done. I was sitting with my hands out and I looked over to my sister and everything was just spotty and things slowly started to not make sense. I knew that this was the same reaction I had the last time. The workers were so kind and gave me water and I lay down on the pedicure chairs. I then went home and took a nap to hopefully feel better. Then 3 hours later I woke up with the worst panic attack ever. The feeling is so indescribable. I was basically being told by a little voice in my head that everything needed to be flipped over, but I knew that was physically impossible to do so, so another voice is screaming at me to do it. It was the oddest thing.
After that day it was Christmas eve, I still assumed everything was from my booster shot until my friend who I hung out with 2 days prior was traveling out of the country and needed to get tested ended up being positive. I knew that I needed to get tested asap. I ended up being positive and was sent straight to my room. I was so upset because my family has so many Christmas traditions and I was stuck in my room or had to wear a mask around the house and could not touch anything. It was brutal. I just felt like I was ruining Christmas for our family. I still ended up doing most of the things, just with a mask, and was distancing myself from the rest of my family. It was just so sad that all our plans got canceled and things were being changed last minute.
Eventually, my mom and brother did end up getting it as well. My mom had the worst symptoms that lasted the longest. My brother had very little but continued to test positive. Although, I did get lucky with timing and got out of my isolation time period right before new years eve and was able to spend that with my friends. A lot really was not going on with people’s plans, but I was so glad I got to do something with them.
I finally got back to normal the day after and was able to start up my practices and go hang out with my friends for the last few days. So honestly, yes it sucked doing a lot of Christmas traditions with a mask on 24/7, but now I think I have the most power of being immune to covid with my vaccine shots, the booster shot, and getting the virus.