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In response to
"I don't know the symptoms she had but 1) most people didn't have COVID 2) the tests aren't that good. "
by
James Bond (aka Igor)
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She's had largely mysterious health issues going all the way back to Halloween with recurrences in early January and March.
Posted by
David (aka David)
Jun 11 '20, 23:35
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Our doctor is exceptional, and she's absolutely mystified by Kim's symptoms, many of which line up with COVID. As you say, it's challenging since a lot of stuff presents similarly.
Kim's had this cough that she just can't kick, and that lines up with the premise that once the disease gets in your lungs, it adapts and lingers. She takes her temperature regularly and has never had a fever, though.
I'd blown off the January one since early signs listed New Year's Eve as when things went south in Wuhan. Now that it's got an earlier date, that situation is strange because my super-healthy sister-in-law got something before Christmas that knocked her down for a month.
My brother came to the holiday dinner without her and proceeded to infect several family members, all of whom got unusually ill. So, we've kind of circled that as a curiosity that's extremely abnormal. My mother *never* gets sick, but she had that bad.
It's that strange line between hypochondria during a pandemic and genuine concern that my loved ones had something dangerous and didn't even know it. I've asked Loosi about the timeline and Kim's symptoms a couple of times for this reason.
It's probably just a really bad cold or flu, but the uncertainty of it bugs me. We'd hoped that the antibody test would provide some clarity.
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