Name change here from mightbealittlebitmad..
I have covid! Only took a test because I felt rubbish and had a few spare but now it's left me in a moral quandary. I can't afford to take time off work and legally I don't have to but I told the managers since it's a new job and I didn't want to seem flaky if I needed to call in sick tomorrow. They have said it's my decision so I'm not going in tomorrow but I'll aim to go in Wednesday. I feel paranoid that I'm going to cause mass illness now. I'm not telling anybody else because I don't need the judgment, morals don't pay my bills at the end of the day. Same for sending the kids to childcare, legally I can do I will but I don't want there to be any backlash for it/them refuse to take the kids because I have covid. I need tomorrow childfree to try and get better and the rest of the days to be able to go to work.
As far as I can tell covid is just the same as a standard me illness but with an added bonus of a sky high temperature. I had the exact same thing March 2020, I never get a temperature so I was suspicious it was covid but without tests I didn't know. I've tested whilst feeling rubbish, (same symptoms, no temperature) before hoping it might come up positive so I could get the full 10 days paid but no such luck.
Felt very achey yesterday, couldn't get warm for ages then I spent ages being too hot. Temperature was up to 40 just like 2020 but I felt better, back then I couldn't face eating when it was that high, last night I had dinner happily. Slept really well, woke up with a normal temperature, feeling congested and a bit achey but my throat got worse through the day and feels like I'm swallowing razor blades. That's probably the worst symptom, I've struggled with sore throats as a child and they've always made me miserable, there is just no relief. Hoping for a good night's sleep again, up early to get the kids to childcare then I can come back to bed. Spent the best part of 2 days here though and I'm getting bored but it's exhausting just pottering around doing basic jobs.
In other news the husband and I are separating and I'm going to be moving out once I can secure a shared ownership property. There are so many issues and I can't get past some of his behaviour which was pretty bad, he can't live with me as I am so there we go. I'll only be moving a 10 minute drive away, kids will still go to the same school and the husband is buying me out of the house so not too much upheavel for everyone.
I got a new job in March, I've gone from working evenings and weekends in a pub to weekdays 9-3 in a golf club. Works perfectly around nursery and school, it's practically across the road from my current house which is handy so I leave home, go to nursery, turn round, go to school then carry on down the road to work. Bit of a pain during school holidays because I need to claim my holiday club costs via UC and the only Ofsted registered one is a 15 minute drive in the opposite direction to nursery. It's a 40 minute round trip which is a total pain but it will be much easier when both kids can go and I'm only doing one drop off. Only the summer holidays to go then my youngest starts school. Hoping it might mature him a bit.
I'm feeling in a much better place mentally than I was during the lockdowns but I'm still not quite where I was before then. Things still feel a little flat but I think time will fix that. I can't see us having any more restrictions unless something really bad happens, they will never be able to implement it now after everything that's gone on.