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On Monday November 23, I became an official statistic in the COVID+ column.
On November 16, after a weekend with what I presumed was a safe “germ pod” of people I trusted, I began to feel ill. I quickly lost my sense of smell and became insanely fatigued. Then more symptoms.
I like my Twitter presence because a) I barely have one and b) I feel like it’s more peers, mentors and people I look up to astrologically vs casual astro enthusiasts like I interact with on Instagram.
So I’m saying it here while I figure out if/how to say it on other social channels where the platform is less responsive to conversation and positions you as the content creator (me) or as the content consumer (everyone else). Overthinking it; it just feels safer to do so here.
Wear a mask. Be honest if you are not feeling well. Isolate if you do have symptoms. I did everything I was supposed to this year, including not seeing any friends (Cancer Moon 11H so trust me, it’s been fucking difficult), and still got it from family I thought I was safe around
Early on, I reached out to @mercuriusgeorge who graciously & generously gave a detailed, thorough recounting of his own experience. As someone with anxiety, the time and effort that took was both touching and valuable to me. Like, I truly cannot thank him enough for sharing.
And it made me realize that because he was open enough to talk about his experience, I had a resource at a time when I needed it. So I would like to do that for anyone of you, should you require it in the future, which I hope you never need to.
Because as lucky I have been to have a mild case, 0/10 do not recommend this. Please be careful, especially now with the holidays & more time indoors with people who may not know they’re sick, or may say that tickle is acid reflux. Fam, it was not.
I also want to thank my Astro mentor and all around goddess @annabelgat for checking on me and assuring me, as well as my astro besties @theaastrology and @leonamoonastro. Plus all of you always. You all make my very sentimental Cancer Moon happy.
And also @MancusoNR for making me laugh, playing Animal Crossing with me, calling me Yiayia and making me cry when I jokingly started to eulogize myself with a poor attempt at gallows humor and then I got overwhelmed.
