Covid Anxiety

So now that you have a family member test positive, the anxious daily wait begins. Each morning as you start to come out of your slumber, your mind starts to do an assessment of your body…. am I sick? Do I feel terrible? Do I have a symptom or two? This is what my last week has felt like. The psychosomatic symptoms are nuts as one moment I have chest pain to a sore throat to a headache… then as I move around I realize I do not. Each symptom has a logical explanation from something as simple as I have not drank enough water today so, of course, I have a headache especially because I am so worried about getting a headache that I might have a headache but in reality I do not have a headache. What the heck! Last weeks covid test was negative but also only three days from exposure and well today is like the bewitching symptom period (the 10-14 day post exposure) is now. So I got tested again. I also got tested again because my husband is starting to show symptoms.

But in reality, I may have a superhuman power. Wait, what?

Yup, I might. I do not want to jinx it, but I get Gamunex infusions monthly because I do not make antibodies. As a result, I am getting others antibodies infused into me and I might have antibodies against covid because of someone else. Yes, that is crazy to think about. It is where my heart starts to swell with love and my eyes with tears, because of someone else’s gift of plasma, I may be fighting covid off. When you combine this with herd immunization that is rolling out, I just might have a superpower. So today I want to say thank you to all the people that donate blood, your gift is appreciated.

GAMUNEX is made from large pools of human plasma by a combination of cold ethanol fractionation, caprylate precipitation and filtration, and anion-exchange chromatography. Isotonicity is achieved by the addition of glycine. Just in case you wanted to know the scientific details of my superpower.

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