Hello, welcome back to Christy's couch. My name is Christy Lucas Yak. Hi, guys. Oh, what a two weeks. It has been first. Let me just apologize from the very bottom of my heart that we did not have an episode last week.

I have had have, I don't know if I still have it. I feel like I might COVID. I finally, it finally got me 22 months later. I got COVID. So it has been a long road to recovery.

I thought that I was going to recover very quickly. I thought it was not going to be a big deal. I am double vaccinated and boosted. And all I can say is thank God that I decided that the vaccine was right for me because I feel that if I was not vaccinated, I would have absolutely been in the hospital.

This was one of the hardest sicknesses that I have had in my lifetime, really and truly. So my heart goes out to everyone who is in emergency rooms and I see use and in hospitals with, you know, extra strength COVID because it was rough. It was really rough.

Basically, how this went is that last weekend, it was I think like the eighth. I wasn't feeling that great. Mark had been sick for a few days and he was very sick and Mark doesn't usually get too sick, but he was very sick.

And he did not go get tested. And I kept saying, should you get tested? He's like, no, I don't think I have it. Whatever. I don't know. I don't know what his option or what his, his reasoning for not getting tested fine.

But on Saturday night, I went to bed and I woke up a few times in the middle of the night because my throat hurt so badly that I could not swallow.

You know how you get like when you anticipate swallowing and you don't want to do it because it hurts so much and you're like, I don't want to swallow. I don't want to swallow. That's where I was. And so I didn't want to swallow.

And I got up to go to the bathroom, to get a drink to help. And I was so dizzy that I had to lay on the floor in the bathroom, which is not a good feeling. No, it's just not a good feeling.

No one ever wants to lay where, you know, there could be random or stray body hairs anywhere, you know, nobody wants to lay there.

But I did because that was my option and the cool tile felt so good against my weird sweaty cheek.

And then I crawled back into bed and I went to sleep and I woke up the next day and I was just laying on my recliner.

And I thought, I have strap and I said, you know, like in my brain, I was like, I have strap. I have not felt this bad in such a long time.

My throat hurt so much. I know I have strap. So I drove myself to the, like, Urgy Care type place and went in, saw the doctor.

Actually, I didn't go in. I sat in my car. And then when I finally, they finally did let me in. They like, hustled me right in the room, fine because I had, you know, illness symptoms.

And the doctor came in and he examined me and he said, well, your throat doesn't have any pus in it. And I was like, okay, great.

And he was like, and your lymph nodes aren't swollen. So I don't think it's strap. He said, I'm going to go check your COVID test.

He's like, you probably just have a virus, blah, blah, blah. You know, the thing they always say. And I was laying there on the table.

And I was just like, oh, my God, I could go to sleep right now. And the nurse came in and he goes, you look nice and healthy. And I was like, really?

And he's like, yeah. And I was like, well, that's funny because I feel like the bottom of a shoe. And then not two minutes later, the doctor came in and he's like, well, you have COVID.

And I literally felt like somebody had walked in and told me that I was pregnant. I was like, what? And I almost fell off the table. And I was like, I don't have COVID.

Like, I just, how do I have COVID? And then it's just been an odyssey since then. So all of the symptoms that you can think of.

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