COVID-19 Anyone you know affected by COVID-19?

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Hi i just wanted to know if anyone you know has been affected by COVID-19 which i hope they havent and if thry have/are i send my love ❤ I'm just curious because so many people seem to be getting however nobody i know knows anyone affected by it. If you could say that would be helpful
 
Well 🙋🏻‍♀️, I've had a cough for 3 weeks now. But no other symptoms, and definitely no fever. Annoying though because generally I don't have a cough. I don't smoke, don't have hay fever and don't have asthma. So bit of a mystery. It is so tickly at times and stops me from sleeping. No one else in my household has had any symptoms.

Wow, I feel like I just did a kind of confession 🙄

My friend who is a midwife told me two of her colleagues have lost a family member to it. One lost her husband 😔
 
My son had CV a few weeks ago but only mild symptoms. One of his friends had it so bad he was throwing up with it. My son self isolated for 2 weeks then just to make sure he was clear of it self isolated for another week. Then lockdown happened so haven't seen him for months. He couldn't even send me a Mother's Day card cos he was in self isolation.
 
I think we had it December/January time. We had fever, cough and felt really rough for about a week. I recovered okay but my OH got a chest infection after it. Maybe it wasn’t CV, but whatever it was it knocked us for six! I personally don’t know anyone who has it, or has lost anyone to it. I hope it stays that way.🤞🏻😷
 
I personally think it's been around for much longer than people are aware of. Back in December, my sister in law had every symptom to what we now know as being covid-19. Even the loss of taste and smell. She was tested for flu, negative, and the doctors eventually put it down to "unknown viral chest infection".
She was very ill for weeks.
Interestingly, my brother was never ill at that time. However a few weeks ago, he started getting every common symptom also, high temperature, persistent cough, whole body aches. He isolated for 7 days, and after a couple, he felt much better but he'd have random knock backs (again as covid is described) weirdly enough, my sister in law did get any symptoms this time around... maybe she's got immunity still?
 
My sister and BIL are recovering very slowly from what is almost certainly CV19.

Their next door neighbours (whom they regularly socialise with) have lost their mother to the virus in hospital (confirmed) and then became ill themselves with what was almost certainly the virus and unable to attend her funeral. They immediately contacted everyone they’d been in close contact with including my sister and BIL, who became unwell only shortly thereafter.

My BIL has been off work for almost 3 weeks - he works at the Houses of Parliament which has been a hotspot for infection so plenty of chances for exposure - and my sister is still not well 2 1/2 weeks in. She was at home recovering from knee replacement surgery when the virus struck. She has extreme fatigue loss of smell and taste and a swinging temperature. She’s also asthmatic, so we are keeping an eye on her from afar.
In our village the couple who run the local barbers shop (where all my menfolk go) are both in hospital. The husband is in ICU still and the wife is now on a standard ward.
 
My son and his family think they have had the virus, but not tested, so don’t know for definite. My son’s work colleague was tested in hospital and was positive. His desk is next to my sons so highly likely. My sons been very poorly he’s asthmatic, with all the symptoms. I haven’t seen them since end of February, just a couple of times through window to drop off shopping. DIL still has a bad cough, kids were up and down with temperature but now all on the mend. It’s taken a lot longer than the isolation time suggested. DIL‘s great auntie passed away from it yesterday sadly
 
One of the Australian rescue ladies I've been in online contact with this week reported that her whole family had the symptoms in February right after the big fires and the flood; and that their doctor agreed that it was likely CV-19 without being able to test for it. Thankfully they all had it mildly.
 
My brother, sister-in-law and nephew are all recovering from it.

I think I had it around Christmas time- before it was named, just @dannif_piggies and @KathT have said.
I have never been that ill for so long with a cold before
 
I honestly think me and mine had it back in February, we were all very sick and then out of sorts for well over a week. I had to keep sitting down around the house, every few steps of the stairs etc due to not being able to catch my breath and just being so exhausted, I must have slept about 80% of the time, i've never been so tired in my life. I couldn't even chop up the guinea pigs vegetables, I just took a bag of whatever we had and threw it in the cages, even that was enough to make me vomit and need to sit down. I am fairly eagerly awaiting the antibody tests to be rolled out to see, but everyone we spoke to seems to think we have likely already had it.

Other than that, my Grannys next door neighbour spent £500 having their poorly cat tested for covid 19 which came back positive, which scares the hell out of me, my Granny and uncle are both very vulnerable, my uncle is diabetic and already has a terrible cough most of the time and poor lung function, my Granny is 89 with cancer, parkinsons, dementia and is very frail. She has carers coming in and out 4 times a day so I really hope they keep the cat inside until he's better, I know there is currently no evidence to suggest cats can transmit it back to humans, but it's a new virus that we're finding out new things about all the time...so I do worry about her.
 
Altho not confirmed my friend thinks she has had it, all the symptoms etc and was really poorly for about 10 days ... just starting to feel better - thank goodness.... no one else I know has been affected 🤞🤞
 
OH and I think we had it in January. OH has asthma and COPD and is still very fatigued, his breathing is much worse than normal. I had the symptoms and for 24 hours I couldn't lift my head off the pillow it hurt so much, I then had symptoms for a week and took weeks to get over the fatigue. The warm sunny weather the last few weeks have helped me feel better, I'm always better in the summer and love the sun. It's hard to know what we had without testing but it was a lot more than a normal cold.
 
Yes and sadly they've all died because of it. There's an older lady on our street who died last week, my dads friends has a son and his friends dad has died from it, another friend of my dads from school's father has died from it, and we suspect the lady in the house behind us has it. We also know that a man in our town has died from it. I've not been well, but thankfully mine is just a cold mixed with hayfever.
My friends Auntie has been tested positive and one Uncle might have it, and one of her neighbors has passed from it.
 
I had it in Jan all the symptoms. I even mentioned being badly sick in this forum at that time due to which I was inactive I wasn't even being able to breathe it was so bad but we thought it's just normal sickness at that time.😔
 
I think my daughter and I had it in March (we were sick the week before isolation started in our province... I'm in Ontario, Canada.) There were confirmed cases from travel in our area at the time. We found out later that more than half my daughter's class was off sick that week... out of a class of 22 or 23, there were 8 kids present one day!

Anyhow, my 13-year-old started first, woke up with a high fever, bad cough, skin pain, body aches, chills, sweats, headache, fatigue, swollen glands, and eventually congestion. We saw the doctor but they wouldn't test her for COVID-19, as at that time they were only testing people with travel history of known infectious contacts. They just said she had a viral respiratory illness but no pneumonia and to take her to the hospital if she had trouble breathing. A couple of days later I started with symptoms... I had a fever around 102, a hacking cough that felt like I was going to actually rip something in my throat, chest tightness, the worst swollen glands of my life, chills, sweats, fatigue, bone aches and pain, skin pain, and finally congestion. It lasted about 7 to 10 days for both of us, and then we still had lingering annoying cough after that. We tried to avoid the rest of the family, my husband seemed fine and my other kids had a really mild sore throat/cold around the same time, but didn't get really sick.

Long story short, I don't know if we had COVID-19 (could have been the flu), but given what I've read about symptoms and the fact that it was confirmed to be in our area, I think it's very possible. I really wish we could have been tested and if an antibody test becomes available I would be interested in taking one to see whether I did have COVID-19 or whether it was the flu.
 
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