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I’m going to send this out tonight, knowing how it might be received by many, but what the heck I might as well try. This is not intended to try and drum up sympathy for myself. It is only any attempt to share my experience in hopes it might help some of you.
Please take this virus seriously. If not for yourself, for anyone around you that you love. I fee that I have taking this virus very seriously from the start. I still got it. This experience has been 8 pretty awful days so far, and I know that it could be much worse.
My symptoms have been unlike any illness I’ve ever had, in many ways. Many of those symptoms have been hard to describe. The biggest has been extreme fatigue. But I’ve also experienced chills, muscle aches, splitting headaches, nasty coughing fits, and intense nausea.
But honestly, worse than all of that has been dealing with the fact that I know I have infected a few other people, including my own mother. I am so worried about her, and I’m wracked with guilt over how I could have been so stupid to let that happen.
Hospital beds are scarce around the state of Kansas right now, and I spend every day dreading a phone call from my stepdad that my mother has taken a turn foe the worse. Thank God that hasn’t happened yet. But my anxiety has hardly been calmed.
Trust me: You do NOT want to deal with that feeling. Please learn from me. Be smart. Think of everyone around you. Assume that you could be carrying this disease, even if you are not yet experiencing symptoms. Do it for the people you love around you. That’s all I’ve got. 
