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In my case the symptoms have not been terribly severe.It started out with a nasal discharge lightly tinged with blood, sometime in the later part of February, 2020; a symptom that lasted about two weeks before anything else happened.Then came about four or five days when I had a sore throat, cough, burning eyes, headache, a steady, slightly elevated temperature of 99 degrees F, and that painful, fatigued feeling that is familiar to anyone who gets flu. It was like a very bad flu at that point.That set of symptoms faded into pneumonia, signified by pain and a feeling of fullness in the chest, with difficulty breathing. This has been the hardest part of the illness, but I got over the most uncomfortably intense part of the pneumonia after a couple of days.Symptom intensity varies from day to day. Most of the time now my energy is okay, but sometimes all I can do is stay in bed. I can take walks and do gardening on good days, but aerobic activity is not possible. A little too much exertion for my lung capacity results in a deep burning sensation in my chest. Sometimes it comes when I am at rest.Being active outside helps to trigger coughing that clears out a portion of the fluid in my lungs, which feels much better. That fluid can be described as slimy saltwater. I can joke that it is the mutant virus taking control of my behavior and forcing me to go out so the viruses can be sent off to other hosts.But they are stupid and cannot see that I cough them out where no potential hosts exist.In the back and forth of symptom intensities, there is a trend toward improvement. If, as some reports have it, that symptoms can take as long as six weeks to clear, then I have one more week of this. But I know full well that results may vary, and it isn’t over until it’s over.I am in the age group considered vulnerable, and with asthma. My inhaler helps. But recent reports have come out that among those in my age group, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes are the strongest risk factors that bring death. Those risk factors don’t pertain to me.Update: 3/28/20 Here it is one week since I wrote the answer above. The pneumonia is gone, but I still feel inflammation in my lungs. I can now breathe deeply, but there is some light soreness around the lungs. I still have some congestion in my throat with a dry cough.I still have body aches and some lack of energy, but I feel much better. Healing is happening, and I no longer fear a downturn with the sudden onset of severe pneumonia.I feel very fortunate to have avoided the more severe possibilities of Covid 19.Update: 4/4/2020 More improvement. About 4 days ago I had half a day with a bad cough. Pain and fatigue come and go. When I feel badly my temperature is elevated, between 99.1 and 99.2 F. As of now, the lungs are clear, with congestion in the trachea, throat, and lightly in the nose with a little blood. There is soreness in my throat, probably from cough irritation. My back and chest get achy when the pain arises. Good news though. Last night I did a fast bike ride for about 3 kilometers as a test of my condition. My lungs handled it easily, and I didn’t even breathe hard. My muscles had all their old strength. It felt really good to move like that. Recovery is very close, but the last symptoms are taking an insanely long time to taper off.Update: 4/7/2020 I woke up this morning with my throat badly congested, and had to do some coughing, but the trachea is now clear, and there is still congestion in the nose, but with no more blood. I don’t often feel achy, but when I do my temperature is up around 99.2 F. The airways in my lungs are still sensitive after all that trauma. Two nights after that wonderful bike ride, I took a 2.5 mile walk at a fast pace, and got an asthma attack. I treated it with albuterol and did deep breathing exercises and continued on. I could feel inflammation in the airways. They need time to heal. Last night I walked more slowly and had no problems. It isn’t over until it is, but I wish it was.Update: 4/11/2020 I think I see why Covid 19 appears to return to some patients after their recovery. I was beginning to think this thing was almost gone, as I was mostly symptom free. Last Thursday I awoke with a very sore throat, and then the coughing began, for hours. I was enveloped with body pain and severe fatigue. Walking around in the yard was very difficult, so I went back to bed and slept. This thing does not behave the way we expect respiratory viruses to behave. On Friday I felt so much better. It has the character of letting a person feel probably well, or almost. And then symptoms come slamming back for another round. It cannot be trusted. After that came the stressful misfortune late Friday of getting a painful abscessed tooth in my lower jaw. With it comes a fever of 101 degrees F and a headache. And on a holiday weekend of course. A relative gave me an unused prescription for amoxicillin, so maybe I’m good until I find a dentist.Update: 4/18/2020 I am thankful for all the upvotes, interest, and supportive comments my ongoing narrative has been getting. It is a silver lining to this experience.The symptoms are still with me. It is mostly soreness in the throat and back of the nose, but at random times there will be headaches and fatigue, and muscle soreness in the legs and upper back. I discover those when I set out to take a walk. Rarely are they severe enough to stop me, but it happens. If I can walk through it those symptoms diminish with movement. `Other times it gets hard to breathe, feeling more like asthma than pneumonia. Sometimes there is a neurological seeming issue in which my sense of balance is off, and I tend to lean over to my left as I walk, which makes me stagger a bit as if drunk. I don’t like that one, but it does not last long.I feel troubled. I’ve had 9 weeks of symptoms now, if my time keeping still works. Is this infection chronic? It is not just a respiratory infection. What does it do to the other body organs? Information is coming in that it could well be a whole body infection. This entire last week, aside from the tooth abscess, has been a week of no change in symptoms, mostly just the same stuff, with variations in intensity. It has reached a steady state. I’m not as ill as I was in the beginning, and with interspersed rest breaks I am able to stay active, but in solitude.Update: 4/25/2020 I took a walk last Thursday evening, and the muscles in my legs felt as if were climbing a steep hill, painful and stiff. It eased up some as I continued. And I was coughing too. The portion of airway in my neck is sore and congested.I found out that the dry cough can be made more productive with good hydration.But that was the beginning of an inflammatory reaction that continues to the present moment. On Friday I was surprised at all the pain in the muscles and joints in my hands and arms as I used a garden hose to do some watering in the yard. There was intense fatigue also. I did not do much more that day. My temperature that day fluctuated from 99.2 F to a brief high of 101.2, but mostly in the 99s.I could take a walk that evening, but it was shorter than usual.Today I felt better, but it was like Friday to a lesser intensity. It is harder to think too. Sometimes I felt a kind of lightheadedness that was similar to what I went through 8 years ago when recovering from sepsis. I do not feel like walking tonight.I also had some episodes these past three days when I had to deal with asthma, most likely provoked by this inflammatory immune reaction. I can usually sense the stuff in the air that brings me asthma, and the air seems okay.I guess I am just going to have to put up with this stuff until I don’t anymore. It is hard to know what is going on. I’m not so sick as I used to be, but can’t say I’m well either. Symptoms rise and fall as they linger. Some kind of antiviral medication might put an end to this, but I’ll pass on UV radiation and disinfectants.The pain in my hands as I write this is such a new experience. I see a dentist on Monday, and Monday a week ago I was tested for Covid with a nasal swab, which came out negative. It might have worked out better when there was blood in there, or if taken during the second week in March when the infection was at its worst. The thought of putting a swab down my sore throat where viruses may still lurk is enough to make me gag. I’ll see what an antibody test shows, if a reliable one is created.Update: 5/3/2020 Symptoms have diminished a lot. They always had a rising and falling quality to them, but now when they rise it sometimes gets difficult to be sure they are Covid 19 symptoms.I had a dental appointment for that abscess on April 30, resulting in another appointment that will be done after the infection is gone. I did not notice that they forgot to return my ID until I got home. Rather than take a chance of a fine for driving without my license, I decided to ride my bike over there the next day. It was an ordeal, but I was strong enough to do it without any physical setbacks. It was a 5 mile ride to the office, but a portion of it involved traveling on a very busy multilane highway that crossed over an Interstate highway, not the kind of ride I’ve ever done done before. I was doing a lot of coughing for the first three miles, then things stabilized. The last few miles back my arms were just burning with fatigue. The day after felt no worse than what some over-exertion brings. I believe I’m mostly over this thing now, not quite, but mostly. Sometimes my throat is sore and my lungs burn, and congestion clogs my throat, and fatigue intervenes at times, but none of it interferes anymore in living my life. I still don’t know if I’m contagious, so I behave as if I am. It has been such a long time getting to this point, but I’m reasonably confident of no more relapsing surprises.Update: 5/13/2020 It just won’t go away. There is congestion in the throat, which generates coughing from time to time, at infrequent intervals. There is a lot of muscle pain, in the back, arms, and legs.Fatigue hits me over and over, but it isn’t constant, so that allows for some activity, followed by rest periods.Headaches sometimes come for a visit, but they don’t last long.The symptom I wrote of on April 18, that balance problem that tends to cause me to lean to the left, has eased somewhat, but now my left ear has developed tinitis and it is much more difficult to understand speech.I have not taken any long walks lately due to pain and fatigue.Much of the time it is difficult for me to think or read anything dense. Writing this update was too difficult to do when I wanted to write it a few days ago.Along with these cognitive difficulties, in the background of my mind there is a bit of free-floating anxiety.At this time, symptoms can erupt and put a stop to whatever I want to do, but they also recede, and life goes forward. It is perplexing that this thing has stayed with me so long.Update: 5/17/2020 I’ve been doing okay most of the time over the last few days, but needing frequent rest breaks and pain meds. Right now I’m hurting quite badly in my back, limbs and joints. There is another symptom I’ve been having for some time over the last few weeks that I’ve overlooked reporting because I did not know that it was a symptom of this. It is mild chest pain, sometimes with palpitations, especially at night. Other people report having the same thing, so I shouldn’t discount it.Also, I came across an article that describes my more recent experiences with this, so I thought it relevant to share here: 'Weird as hell’: the Covid-19 patients who have symptoms for months It closely tracks what I’ve been going through.UPDATE PLEASE! Hoping this finds you well as its been a few weeks. Praying for you from Portland Oregonian.Update: 6/12/2020Most of what I experience now is generalized inflammation. Everywhere that bone meets cartilage has been painful. Nothing severe, and its intensity varies over time, with different places on their own schedules.There were times when I was walking that it felt like my feet were bags of bones. I never felt all the joints moving in my feet before. The joints in my hands hurt, as well as my knees and ankles and the spaces between the vertebrae in my upper back. And then there are the achy muscles, in my legs, arms and back, and sometimes my face. When the pain is up, so is the fatigue, and I must rest, although that pain is going to limit my activity in its own ways.This not a comfortable existence, but at least I get intermittent breaks. Then I go about my life and try to catch up on my projects. I was able to take a leisurely 9 mile bike ride last week, and felt fine the next day. Often I have times when I cannot think clearly, and I even get tired from reading, which is unusual for me. There is one little spot in my trachea that is still sore, and can at times bring on coughing, but the sore throat is long gone. I feel crappy and have to live much more slowly for now, with no idea at all how much longer this is going to last.I went to an oral surgeon for some dental work, and they did all this interviewing to find out if I might have Covid 19. I told them they really had nothing to worry about because I caught it already in late February or early March, and tested negative for it in April. Big mistake. I got the leper treatment. First they wanted my medical clearance from the hospital. Eyes went wide when I explained that I did not need hospitilization and stayed home to avoid spreading it. Then they insisted I get a medical clearance from my doctor, who I did not see for this because there is no treatment for cases like mine. I humored them and got the doctor to make them feel safe, but I’ll be more discreet from here on. I don’t like the stigma that gets me treated like a leper.Update: 7/11/2020Most symptoms have quit returning. Cognitive difficulties perplex me though. I did some online shopping, and apparently ordered the wrong sizes and amounts of the things wanted. I also went to a store for some grass seed, and when I was ready to plant it, it was only after I opened the bag that I discovered that I had instead purchased lawn fertilizer. It was alarming, annoying, and funny at the same time. I really need to take special care when I buy stuff.There is a tiny spot in my trachea that seems inflamed, and if it gets irritated I go through an intense spell of coughing.I have several periods during the day when I feel generally distributed pain, accompanied by fatigue, which takes over and forces me to rest. After an hour or so I can resume activity. I have not been able to exercise as frequently as I could before the virus came my way. The trend is one of slow improvement. So far, I cannot detect any permanent damage.Update: 7/25/2020 It seems like it’s been months since my last update. Some kind of inflammatory process has ruled my life since then, with increased pain in my muscles and joints, life disrupting fatigue, and time distorting problems with memory and concentration. I get breaks from these issues at unpredictable intervals, and have been feeling much better over the last three days. I was given an antibody test on blood drawn July 2, which came out negative. That suggests a couple of possibilities to me. The test might have a higher than optimal tendency to yield false negatives, or perhaps the antibodies fade away four and a half months after infection. That second possibility brings me to wonder how safe I could be from getting another infection. I had been feeling confident of some immunity until now.I get monthly infusions of immune globulin over two consecutive days to treat chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and the blood drawn for that antibody test may have given scewed results because it was drawn about an hour after my IG infusion for the second day.I’m glad enough to be feeling better today, and well aware of how badly this ordeal could have gone, but fortunately didn’t.Update: 8/9/2020 Two days ago I had a morning in which my trachea was irritated, I was coughing again, and I had a runny nose. My joints and muscles were in deep pain, and fatigue kept me resting. I wondered if maybe this had to a cold. But probably not, because by afternoon most of those symptoms had vanished. Since then I have not felt terribly bad, but not great either. This situation is difficult to understand. I also wonder, if viruses can be detected leaving people’s bodies when they talk, sing, cough or sneeze, is it not possible to test for viruses by having people cough into some kind of receptacle? My recent coughing two days ago left me wondering if I were still contageous.

When I was in the 4th grade, the teacher of record was with us for a short while because her husband had a stroke/heart attack and she was replaced by a series of substitutes who were all retired teachers until they grew too tired to keep teaching every day and a permanent solution was sought. We had three long-term subs and each taught differently and had different styles of maintaining the classroom. When those ladies tired of being there every day they hired a Christmas graduate from a local college to finish the year AND she was my most annoying teacher. She was so new that she had not even had a practicum in the classroom and she was a new mom; we spent days being regaled with tales of her daughter’s activities, the great experience of her first Christmas as a mom, etc. and we had little classroom learning being done.Her one hobnob of consistency was the weekly spelling list. Words revealed on Monday and we used the dictionary in the back of the book to define each of the 20 words. We stood at our desks on Tuesdays and spelled them from memory and success brought a gold star on the poster board at the front of the room. Wednesdays we would use the word in a sentence and we read our sentences aloud for approval. Thursdays were reserved for writing each word 10 times before the climax of Friday when we wrote each of the 10 words correctly she would choose for our weekly spelling grade. Once on the Friday, one of the students who had been out because she had asthma had placed her open spelling book on the seat and the words were there for her to see. I raised my hand to ask why she could use her book when we could not.I was jerked from my desk, pulled into the hall and told I had lied about my classmate. I had not and protested my innocence but the teacher defended the other student against my claim and I was made to go to the principal’s office and she requested he paddle me for lying. He did not punish me but took me back to the classroom to see what was happening there. The entire class was out of their seats and wandering around while the teacher consoled the cheater and she screamed I was not to come back in the room. The principal sat me at my desk, made everyone sit down and asked the teacher to come to the hall. He said he knew both of the students involved and did not feel I had any reason to lie so he asked the other student if she would come to the hall and he questioned her. While she did not admit to cheating, she did admit she had her spelling book on the seat beside her. The principal said to restart everyone’s spelling test and he stood behind the two of us as we took our test. The accused student did not score well which was very unlike her and he said the teacher would record the grades we earned while he stood behind us. I scored well because I knew the words and nothing about my score could have been improved by asking the question I asked.This was around Easter and we went home for a week as spring break. When I returned to school the teacher began taking poinys off my written work for dotting the “i’s” too high, crossing the “t’s” on the line and generally making me a nervous wreck so I asked her why and her response was that she liked the other student more than she liked me and I would pay for damaging her honor. I finally told my parents just before the close of the year and they intervened with the principal who asked her if she had said such a thing to me and she admitted she had and that I was wrong to dishonor another student. She was not rehired to teach in our district and I never saw her again but she remains a part of a dark time in my life and a question as to why she approached the situation as she did. Needless to say, the other student and I went through the rest of the school experience together but never friendly or able to ever talk about it.

There doesn't seem to be any facts here so far. No sources, nothing. Christine James attempts to make her comment factual by putting Warren Buffet's photo like if anything there is based on his words. I'm not going to be much better but I remember from recent Gordon Ramsey's AMA on Reddit that he has answered such question./u/jichhHey Gordon, big fan! I'm genuinly curious: how the hell do you manage your time? You are everywhere, you have at least 200 shows, a family, restaurants etc. How do you balance all that?/u/Gordon_RamsayI...I multi-task very well.And I am never in one place too long.I think now with, you know, my own production company, I'm very lucky the schedule works around my diary. I work my ass off - you know, 15, 16 hours a day. I quite enjoy the time difference when I finish, for instance, last night we were taping MASTER CHEF until 9 or 10 PM at night, I'll have a quick bite to eat, and then I'll call the UK at midnight - because come midnight LA time, West Coast time, it's 8 o'clock in the morning. I'll say good morning to the kids, I'll catch up with my business in London, and then from 2-5 o'clock, I sleep, get up, go to the gym, and then start my day again.So that's my daily slog.So I stand by my convictions - when I opened up the restaurant, Gordon Ramsay, back in September 1998, I decided I was going to work my ass off. My flagship restaurant in Chelsea has never been open on a Saturday and Sunday - it's never been open on a week-end, because I thought if we're going to do this, I'd like to do this properly, so my staff needs time off. So I work hard, but I give myself time off on the week-end. I cut it off, and power down for 48 hours.Source: I am Gordon Ramsay. AMA. • /r/IAmANow, I've decided to check some other AMAs and who would be a better choice that richest man on Earth./u/briannfHey Bill, thank you so much for doing this AMA.I'd just like to know, what is something you enjoy doing that you think no one would expect from you?/u/thisisbillgatesPlaying Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.However he also answers in a different question:20 years ago I would stay in the office for days at a time and not think twice about it - so I had energy and naivete on my side. Now hopefully I am a bit more mellow but with a little extra wisdom.So Bill rests on weekends today, but that wasn't the case 20 years ago.Source: Page on reddit.comMashable interviewed Elon Musk:Elon Musk: Secrets of a Highly Effective EntrepreneurThis was his schedule when interview took place:Monday: He’s at SpaceX in Los AngelesTuesday and Wednesday: Tesla in Palo Alto, Calif.Thursday and half of Friday: Back at SpaceXRemaining half of Friday: At Tesla Design Studio, which is adjacent to SpaceXWeekends: With familyOn top of that, I found Forbes article from 2013:14 Things Successful People Do On WeekendsLaura Vanderkam, author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast (Portfolio, 2012) and What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend (Portfolio, 2012), says successful people know that weekends are actually the secret weapon in professional success. “You need to hit Monday ready to go,” she says. “To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, spiritual activities, and hands-on parenting make you a better worker than if you just worked all the time.”Not sure what are her sources as I have not read the book but it seems to be quite consistent with what I have discovered otherwise.TL;DR: Work hard during work week. Do other things over the weekend. Do not lay down whole day watching Netflix, take care of your garden, ride a bike, go hiking, mediate, read a book. Do things you enjoy, and do that with friends and family.P.S. I'm not a native English speaker and I apologize for all grammar and spelling errors. Feel free to educate me on that in comments.