My roommate has covid. He became symptomatic Friday. He had a false negative test that day and got retested Saturday after feeling even worse. Saturday’s test was positive. He’s quarantined in his room. I’m isolating here at home. I can work from home, so I’m OK.

I just got home from taking a PCR test to check for covid. I feel healthy and have no symptoms. I’m fairly sure the test will be negative. I’m vaccinated and had a booster.

I had a very curious reaction to being tested. All morning, I was strangely agitated and could hardly sit still. While driving to the testing site and also while standing in line, I was extremely emotional and had tears in my eyes. It wasn’t from fear of the test. It had something to do with being part of this mass global event of the pandemic. 2 years of news and living with it all seemed to want to leak out of my eyes.

I’m fine now. I’ve calmed down. I’m very curious about the reaction I had.

How do you feel about the state of the pandemic? Are you still working from home? How is your mental health?

How are you holding up?

Topics: health, mental health, emotions, feelings, pandemic, COVID-19