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Darkness knows itself by name

I don't have COVID-19. But I had to get up at sleepless o'clock to be tested and it rendered the rest of the day effectively useless for anything beyond telecommunicating with the follow-up doctor in the afternoon, who did not at that time have my test results but was pretty sure from my symptoms and my accounting of the last month that I just had a respiratory crud. Then I had an asthma attack in the evening from our new upstairs neighbors' weed smoke drifting down the stairwell into my office—which really makes me feel safe about our pandemic air quality—and there is now a faint smell of burning electronics in our apartment, even though all of our computers appear to be safe. It was not the motor of the box fan which I had to prop in my office window in order to get the smoke out into the falling snow. I desperately want to be doing something with my brain, but I think what I may need to do with it is go to sleep.

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I am so very glad you’re negative and hope that you can get vaccinated as soon as possible.

I am sorry that your environment is so obnoxious.

*hugs*

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I am so very glad you’re negative and hope that you can get vaccinated as soon as possible.

Thank you. For better or worse, the follow-up doctor thought I cleared the co-morbidities bar for Phase 2 in February.

I am sorry that your environment is so obnoxious.

I very much like where I live geographically and the specifics of the building have been trying to kill me for years.

*hugs*

I'm glad you tested negative. I'm sorry about all the rest of it.

I'm glad you tested negative. I'm sorry about all the rest of it.

Thank you. It just feels like things are piling up to the point of Mel Brooks: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

You do not have Covid-19. Yay! Also whew!

Oh good, I'm not the only one who's of the opinion that pot smoke *stinks!* That stuff reeks horribly, and most of the people I know don't find it nearly as mildewed skunk spray foul as I do.

I find it rank, and I write as an abuser of tobacco. And probable hypocrite. :)

I find it rank, and I write as an abuser of tobacco. And probable hypocrite.

Heh. I can't breathe around cigarette smoke, either, but I have counterproductively nostalgic reactions to the smell of a few brands, because for much of my childhood my grandmother smoked Benson & Hedges and sometimes Kents. When it was possible to catch drifts of strangers' smoke and not immediately worry about catching anything else with them, every now and then I would walk through a cloud and for a second she would be there.

I don't mind a whiff of it in the open air, but not being able to get away from it is terrible.

I don't mind a whiff of it in the open air, but not being able to get away from it is terrible.

I appear to have developed an actual allergic/asthmatic* reaction to it in the last year, so my feelings have moved toward the negative and my body now reacts to the smell as if to the smell of coffee, i.e., it registers instantly as toxic.

* When last we checked, I don't have asthma per se, I have allergies so bad they effectively began to mimic asthma, but since I have now been on one regular and one rescue inhaler for it for nearly a year, this is a bit of an academic distinction by me. Really we need to move, which for financial and other reasons cannot happen any time soon.

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You do not have Covid-19. Yay! Also whew!

Thank you!

That stuff reeks horribly, and most of the people I know don't find it nearly as mildewed skunk spray foul as I do.

I used to find a range of it aesthetically inoffensive and a range of it aesthetically gross, but now that it causes me literal and immediate difficulty breathing, I'm a lot less friendly to the entire concept.

*hugs quietly*

*hugs quietly*

*hugs*

Oh, dear. ♥ I suppose at least you don't have Covid, and may today be better for you.

I suppose at least you don't have Covid, and may today be better for you.

Thank you.

*hugs*

*leaves hugs* I'm glad about the test results. Not the rest. Wishing you sleep.

I'm glad about the test results. Not the rest. Wishing you sleep.

Thank you. I wish I were still asleep.

*hugs*

*hugs and piles of very fresh fish*
I hope you slept. <3

I hope you slept.

More than the night before!

(Mm, fish.)

*hugs*

Sympathies on the troubles, glad you're confirmed Covid-free, best wishes for getting into the early line for vaccines.

Sympathies on the troubles, glad you're confirmed Covid-free, best wishes for getting into the early line for vaccines.

Thank you very much.

Other people's smoke is NOT fun -_-

Hope you can sleep, soon and deeply.

Hope you can sleep, soon and deeply.

Still working on it, but thank you.

Hello- I somehow stumbled upon your blog, and thought that your writing is beautiful. I have this meddlesome need to fix everyone around me, and so when I saw that you are struggling with the respiratory funk, wished to make a suggestion:

Have you heard of peptide therapy? It’s a remarkable new-ish branch of medicine, and far too vast and complex for me to explain myself. Our good friend google would probably do a superior job, by far.

Anyhow, there are a couple of specific compounds that may help with your condition, namely “ll-37” and “alpha thymosin”. These are anti microbial, antiviral, and antifungal agents, without the side effects and toxicity associated with most drugs currently in use for the same things, and are considerably more efficacious to boot.

As well, for the purpose of recovery from illness, “cjc 1295” combined with “ipamorelin”, or “bpc-157”, or a regimine combining all of the above, may be worth looking in to. There are peptides to address a vast and sundry number of the conditions afflicting both humans and animals, and it is a sheer travesty to me that so many of us continue to suffer so much, when help is (potentially) easily available!

These compounds are sold at a variety of online purveyors- you just look up peptide sellers on google or search engine of choice, and proceed from there. Some have not received full FDA clearance as yet, and so are still available as “research chemicals”, but have been safely used by humans for decades, and the fine print is just for legal purposes, of course. I am not personally associated with the sale of any such things, I am just an extraordinarily pleased consumer of these things and want to spread the word about them, because they are genuinely life changing.

There are relatively few, if any, side effects, and they are largely well tolerated by most everyone. I have personally experienced spectacular results with wound healing and amelioration of crippling ankle arthritis from the BPC stuff. I can’t recommend it enough, honestly.

Anyhow, I hope that helps you! The alpha Thymosin compound is actually thought to combat COVID, and I am going to be taking it myself in the next few weeks as a prophylactic of sorts. I would recommend that everyone at least look in to these remarkable compounds and help to pull them out of obscurity and in to the limelight where they belong!

Please get better and continue writing...I am intrigued!

Best,

Brooke