I have it right now. In my experience, it's a really wimpy disease. It's not even the worst illness I've had this year. I'm on the 4th day and only reason I haven't said it's over is I'm being too cautious. I haven't felt really bad since Monday evening, and even then really bad means I had a fever and not much of any other symptoms. If this were a few years in the past, today is the day I'd declare I'm fine and go back to the office. I've taken almost nothing to help, only some vitamin stuff I use when I get sick--that's mostly zinc and vitamin C and a rare small dose of Tylenol. I do give my doctor credit for wanting to test my vitamin D at my annual physical over a year ago and for some reason I was really low. This year it was up to normal after supplements though.

I really can't believe how much of my life I gave up to avoid this. I get something like this about once or twice a year on average. I call it a cold, rest a few days, and move on. The only thing I can get out of it is that it's crazy easy to spread as the person we were around gave it to everyone. I was around them about 2 days, others just several hours. Now I know some who are much worse off with pre-conditions than I am. So, by the end of the week I'll know how it affects them. At this point to them it's been worse than me but not all that awful either. Bearing in mind that these people usually drag colds out way longer than I do normally anyway.

Oh, and the person I caught it from? Wears a mask almost everywhere they go.