1
00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:07,440
Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I welcome to stuff

2
00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,280
Speaker 1: I never told you. Correction by a heart radio.

3
00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,680
Speaker 2: And I'm back. Annie has done so well too well

4
00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,040
Speaker 2: without me. I'm a little I'm a little sad, but

5
00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,040
Speaker 2: thank you so much for covering as I have been

6
00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,480
Speaker 2: very sick which is what I'm going to complain about

7
00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,640
Speaker 2: for this happy hour. But before we start in my

8
00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,760
Speaker 2: wine session, as I want to do, Yes, this is

9
00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,320
Speaker 2: a happy hour. If we are talking about any brands

10
00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,600
Speaker 2: or anything, it is not the currently a sponsor. Things

11
00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,239
Speaker 2: can change, but just an FYI trigger warning, I am

12
00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,240
Speaker 2: talking about sicknesses and it's probably gonna have a little ableism,

13
00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,080
Speaker 2: not because I'm trying to be ablest, but because, like

14
00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,680
Speaker 2: the reality is, we are so inundated and don't realize

15
00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,880
Speaker 2: when some of these things happen. That is very ablest

16
00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,160
Speaker 2: ideas or conversation. So I'm go go ahead and put

17
00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,880
Speaker 2: that out there as well. But if you are partaking

18
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,120
Speaker 2: in some drinks, be responsible. That's how we like to be. Annie,

19
00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:19,199
Speaker 2: are you partaking?

20
00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,160
Speaker 1: And partaking? Kind of made fun of me because I

21
00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,280
Speaker 1: thought we're doing this first, but I already had so

22
00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,600
Speaker 1: I went home to visit my mom, for her birthday

23
00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,360
Speaker 1: this weekend, and she always gives me wine from the

24
00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,440
Speaker 1: region for my birthday, so she had some for me

25
00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:39,520
Speaker 1: and I'm drinking some of.

26
00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,160
Speaker 2: That nice like Wolf Mountain stuff.

27
00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, stuff like that.

28
00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:51,000
Speaker 1: There is a specific grape that is native to North Georgia,

29
00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,840
Speaker 1: but it's also I think in Michigan then Michigan or

30
00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,560
Speaker 1: River it is near there. It is called Cynthiana. In

31
00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,560
Speaker 1: Georgia it is called Orton, and I love the name difference.

32
00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,480
Speaker 2: I wonder why because it has Has it not been

33
00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:07,480
Speaker 2: trademarked or anything.

34
00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I looked into it once because

35
00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,080
Speaker 1: I just thought, like, why are they so different? I

36
00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,239
Speaker 1: think they were kind of new in heavy quotes, newly

37
00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,880
Speaker 1: discovered in terms of other wine grapes, and they were

38
00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:27,200
Speaker 1: discovered kind of concurrently. But there's sort of a judgments

39
00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,280
Speaker 1: that goes on in Georgia if you call it Cynthiana,

40
00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,320
Speaker 1: because it's like you're trying to get the nicer name

41
00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:38,240
Speaker 1: recognition because it does be Cynthiana versus Norton. One of

42
00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:38,959
Speaker 1: them is kind.

43
00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:49,959
Speaker 4: Of right, you know how it is in those small towns.

44
00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, very upset. You're trying to be too big for

45
00:02:53,639 --> 00:03:03,680
Speaker 2: your bridges, who we're not good enough for you. That's hilarious. Yeah,

46
00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,400
Speaker 2: So I am not drinking. I am sticking with my

47
00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:10,720
Speaker 2: water because I am still filling the aftermath and I

48
00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,480
Speaker 2: don't know what at one point constitutes long COVID. So yes,

49
00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,600
Speaker 2: if you haven't been listening or if you didn't know,

50
00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,560
Speaker 2: I did have COVID because my partner came home from

51
00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,359
Speaker 2: dragon Con ended up getting it from there. I took

52
00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,720
Speaker 2: care of him, and it was inevitable that because the

53
00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,720
Speaker 2: first two nights, the first night he got here, maybe

54
00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,360
Speaker 2: even the two nights, he had a little cough, but

55
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,400
Speaker 2: he was fine. I don't know if he had a cough.

56
00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,200
Speaker 2: I think he just kept like doing the cleaning of

57
00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,560
Speaker 2: the throat. But that was like we thought that was

58
00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,040
Speaker 2: just the dragon Con crud, the which is you know,

59
00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,360
Speaker 2: everybody comes out with sniffles, whatever it may be. And

60
00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,880
Speaker 2: he was fine. So he's like slept in the bed

61
00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,080
Speaker 2: with me and we were like, oh, I missed you whatever,

62
00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:00,440
Speaker 2: And so he got COVID a week later. Exactly a

63
00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,240
Speaker 2: week later, I got tested. I tested positive for COVID,

64
00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,800
Speaker 2: but I also had the symptoms beforehand, to the point

65
00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,760
Speaker 2: that he's like you have COVID. I hear it d

66
00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,400
Speaker 2: da DA, But like we were in separate like floors

67
00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,760
Speaker 2: because he and I try to separate after he tested

68
00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,640
Speaker 2: positive and it was be rough. But yeah, so I

69
00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,400
Speaker 2: ended up getting in a week after. Turns out I'm

70
00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,760
Speaker 2: not immune. Very sad about that because I don't know,

71
00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,560
Speaker 2: and I'm very I'm very like, there's so much to

72
00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:33,640
Speaker 2: this illness that is so odd and so like different

73
00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,760
Speaker 2: from everything else, and that the flu you kind of

74
00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,719
Speaker 2: know all the symptoms and everybody has the same symptoms.

75
00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,320
Speaker 2: It is what it is. There's no like asymptomatic this

76
00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,400
Speaker 2: you maybe I'm wrong, Maybe you know, if you're a doctor,

77
00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,800
Speaker 2: you can tell me that, yeah, you can be asymptomatic flu.

78
00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,279
Speaker 2: Maybe I just don't understand that. But this one for

79
00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,360
Speaker 2: my partner and I, we weren't out and he and

80
00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:02,240
Speaker 2: I had different symptoms actually because he started off with

81
00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,320
Speaker 2: a little bit of a sore throat, then went into coughing,

82
00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,080
Speaker 2: and then had like to the point that he was

83
00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,240
Speaker 2: coughing so hard that there was blood in his philm

84
00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,800
Speaker 2: because of his throat, like of his esophagus, not in

85
00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,120
Speaker 2: his lungs. And then I didn't have that bad of

86
00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,080
Speaker 2: a cough until after the fact, but I had awful

87
00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,400
Speaker 2: headaches and a sinus drainage, and then the fever like.

88
00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:28,960
Speaker 2: I had pretty bad fever, and then a horrible sore

89
00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,920
Speaker 2: throat like and then I got the mouth rash. It

90
00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,360
Speaker 2: was freaky, to the point that my tongue I feel

91
00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,640
Speaker 2: like has scraped off a whole layer from whatever it was.

92
00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,839
Speaker 2: Whatever it was, and my taste buds have not completely changed,

93
00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,880
Speaker 2: but it's different and it feels raw. So I'm very

94
00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:52,200
Speaker 2: baffled by this. But so it's been I've hit my

95
00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,720
Speaker 2: ten day period of after the initial test. I am

96
00:05:55,760 --> 00:06:00,559
Speaker 2: now like my actual strips shows as clear and it's fine.

97
00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,360
Speaker 2: My voice is still kind of different. I'm still coughing

98
00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,960
Speaker 2: a little bit, but I now have the heavier chest,

99
00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,440
Speaker 2: and I'm having a hard time with fatigue, like to

100
00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,039
Speaker 2: the point that if I try to do anything for

101
00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,840
Speaker 2: more than thirty minutes, I get very winded. Yesterday I

102
00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,080
Speaker 2: actually got so dizzy that I almost collapsed, and then

103
00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,680
Speaker 2: I've had some weird chest pain. I'm a little worried

104
00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,000
Speaker 2: that I may have what is now being considered long COVID,

105
00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,920
Speaker 2: even though it's only been a couple of weeks. I'm

106
00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,320
Speaker 2: freaking out though, because if those are long term damages,

107
00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,440
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm gonna do.

108
00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,680
Speaker 3: It is, yeah, it is scary.

109
00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,680
Speaker 1: I had a much less rough time than you when

110
00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,240
Speaker 1: I got COVID. I just needsed a lot for two days.

111
00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,159
Speaker 1: But I thought I still think I might. But I

112
00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,320
Speaker 1: for a while I thought I had long COVID because

113
00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,320
Speaker 1: it was mostly concentration and what they call COVID fog,

114
00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,800
Speaker 1: like you just get like almost confused or something. And

115
00:06:55,839 --> 00:07:01,040
Speaker 1: then I have long problems, but I haven't had them

116
00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,400
Speaker 1: noticeably in a long time, Like it's still there, but

117
00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,480
Speaker 1: I just haven't felt it. But after I got COVID,

118
00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,280
Speaker 1: like if I take a deep breath, it tickles like

119
00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,680
Speaker 1: it's I can feel it, and it is scary to think.

120
00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:15,920
Speaker 1: It's scary to think that, Like, oh, I guess that's

121
00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:17,880
Speaker 1: just how it is.

122
00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:30,880
Speaker 2: Right. So I have a birthday trip coming up, the

123
00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,160
Speaker 2: first trip in three years, and I'm excited. But it's

124
00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,560
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of walking and like activity,

125
00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:38,920
Speaker 2: and like I said, as I've been doing small things

126
00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,360
Speaker 2: here and there, I have been. And when I say fatigued,

127
00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,560
Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about like, oh, I'm tired. I've

128
00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,720
Speaker 2: talked about the fact that I may have I'm like,

129
00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,800
Speaker 2: I wonder if I have like a light case of narcolepsy,

130
00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,640
Speaker 2: and that when I get stressed or anxious, or when

131
00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,160
Speaker 2: I get into like shopping malls with the bright lights

132
00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,880
Speaker 2: and fluorescent lights, I get zapped very quickly, like a

133
00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,640
Speaker 2: couple hours, and I feel like all the energy has

134
00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,440
Speaker 2: been drained from me and I need to lay down,

135
00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,040
Speaker 2: and I will stop talking and I will have stopping

136
00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,720
Speaker 2: having emotions. Like I'm just like, like everything just feels

137
00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:18,000
Speaker 2: that And I'm not a very fast walker anyway, but

138
00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,360
Speaker 2: I'm even slower, so for my partner who goes like

139
00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,600
Speaker 2: he's mister speedy, and I'm like, oh no, you're about

140
00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,200
Speaker 2: to be two blocks ahead of me because we're done.

141
00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,440
Speaker 2: But it's gotten that bad, and it still is that

142
00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,000
Speaker 2: bad that I'm like, oh no, what's this going to

143
00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,320
Speaker 2: do for my trip? I wasn't you know, anticipating this.

144
00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,840
Speaker 2: And then also I get very lightheaded and dizzy. I'm

145
00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,960
Speaker 2: not good at travel, so I get really easy emotion sickness,

146
00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,880
Speaker 2: but that also has like nauseousness and like lightheaded, and

147
00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:48,480
Speaker 2: so I'm like, oh God, how is this going to

148
00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:53,000
Speaker 2: affect me being in a plane for a couple of hours,

149
00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,679
Speaker 2: which I will be wearing a mask, and I'm kind

150
00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,680
Speaker 2: of anxious about that because I don't want people to

151
00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,520
Speaker 2: yell at me for wearing a mask, which by the way,

152
00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:00,559
Speaker 2: has been a thing too.

153
00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:05,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought about that when because you

154
00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,880
Speaker 1: asked me, like what should you do and for your

155
00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,760
Speaker 1: birthday and so many of the things, I'm like, well,

156
00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,679
Speaker 1: that involves a lot of walking. That involves some walking,

157
00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:16,120
Speaker 1: that involved in walking.

158
00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,640
Speaker 2: All of us involved walking. Because the way I've planned this,

159
00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,440
Speaker 2: it is not by burrows. I'm just like, eh, like

160
00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,760
Speaker 2: I've I've only put three different reservations. One of them

161
00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,280
Speaker 2: is very like Hardt reservation. So I got it a

162
00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,079
Speaker 2: month ago, so that was pre COVID for us. And

163
00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,520
Speaker 2: I don't know where in that neighborhood is in but

164
00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,520
Speaker 2: then I have lunch somewhere else and I'm pretty sure

165
00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,559
Speaker 2: it's a completely different neighborhood. But it's like seven hours stretch,

166
00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,679
Speaker 2: so it's not like too hard for me to get

167
00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,040
Speaker 2: from one plaice of the other. But I realized how

168
00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,960
Speaker 2: little that I put in that effort, and then like

169
00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,120
Speaker 2: on one day I would like to do Chelsea Market

170
00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:54,360
Speaker 2: and just go and check it all out. I don't

171
00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,560
Speaker 2: have a lot of plans. I don't have anything planned

172
00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,240
Speaker 2: for the actual birthday because I'm like, I don't love

173
00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,400
Speaker 2: planning everything out. I do. Obviously, we have to do

174
00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,960
Speaker 2: reservations or you're not going anywhere. So we did like

175
00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,319
Speaker 2: three good reservations, and then everything else is just like, well,

176
00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,560
Speaker 2: let's see what we can find, what we can do.

177
00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,480
Speaker 2: Maybe we can get in because there's only two of us,

178
00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,720
Speaker 2: Maybe we can just sit at the bar or whatever. Yeah,

179
00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know if I did this correctly.

180
00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,000
Speaker 2: It's been a while I've been to New York, but

181
00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,280
Speaker 2: every time I've ever been to New York, it's very pointed,

182
00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,440
Speaker 2: like there's reasons I'm going, whether it's friend planning the

183
00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,640
Speaker 2: whole thing, or like what had to do a trip

184
00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,160
Speaker 2: for something like so, or I'm just going through for

185
00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:41,480
Speaker 2: a day or two, so very like unsure of where

186
00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,839
Speaker 2: I'm going, but like also worried that I'm like, I'm sorry,

187
00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,679
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna be so messed up with the fact

188
00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,040
Speaker 2: that he and I are still coughing, and the fact

189
00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:52,880
Speaker 2: that I get very dizzy to the point that I

190
00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,480
Speaker 2: almost collapse or or the fact that like, yeah, I

191
00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,360
Speaker 2: don't know if my taste but they're gonna be okay

192
00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,839
Speaker 2: because I love extra spicy food. But as of recent

193
00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:05,000
Speaker 2: it actually burns my tongue. Yeah, like hurts, and I've

194
00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,120
Speaker 2: never had that. I was like, what the I'm very

195
00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:08,160
Speaker 2: upset by that, y'all.

196
00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,280
Speaker 3: That's fair, that's upsetic.

197
00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's so many it's so upsetting. I just

198
00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,360
Speaker 2: want to good food. So there's a lot of things.

199
00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,520
Speaker 2: And in this like trying to figure out, y'all again,

200
00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,520
Speaker 2: my partner and I really had all the symptoms, like

201
00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,120
Speaker 2: it was bad. I had a one hundred and two

202
00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,440
Speaker 2: fever and for me, my regular temperature is like ninety

203
00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,959
Speaker 2: seven point four, so I run cold. That is a

204
00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,920
Speaker 2: high temperature for me, one hundred and two hundred and one.

205
00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,079
Speaker 2: And then and I had that for two days. I

206
00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,360
Speaker 2: couldn't talk for two days because my voice was so

207
00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,400
Speaker 2: my throat, my mouth, it wasn't actually my tht like,

208
00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,280
Speaker 2: it wasn't in my throat, it was at the top

209
00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,040
Speaker 2: of my throat, the uvula is like it all got

210
00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,080
Speaker 2: swelled up, like I had the white specks all over

211
00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,480
Speaker 2: my the top of my mouth and like I thought

212
00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,800
Speaker 2: it was just like like where when you get tonsilitis

213
00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,600
Speaker 2: you see like the sores. It wasn't, and it freaked

214
00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,200
Speaker 2: me out. I was like, oh my god, what is

215
00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:06,079
Speaker 2: this inside my mouth? I had all the things so

216
00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,000
Speaker 2: like it was really rough, and I wondered if it's

217
00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,640
Speaker 2: because the first time that I've ever actually had COVID,

218
00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,480
Speaker 2: because I've never experienced that whatsoever. But then we had

219
00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,600
Speaker 2: people who were within that group, who all who may

220
00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,840
Speaker 2: have tested for COVID but had no symptoms none, And

221
00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:25,080
Speaker 2: I was really freaked out by that.

222
00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:31,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's bizarre because I've seen that too.

223
00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:35,599
Speaker 3: I have seen this huge range of.

224
00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,800
Speaker 1: What people experience when they get COVID, to the point

225
00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,080
Speaker 1: where I'm like that sounds like the stomach virus and

226
00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:45,120
Speaker 1: they're like, no, that was COVID. I'm like okay or no,

227
00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,920
Speaker 1: like it just like it doesn't feel very consistent. It

228
00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:53,400
Speaker 1: feels very specific based on the person who gets it

229
00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,560
Speaker 1: and when they get it, where they get it. But

230
00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,240
Speaker 1: it is widely ranging.

231
00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,920
Speaker 2: Right, and again, my partner and I had different symptoms

232
00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,520
Speaker 2: even Yeah, it had to be the same strain, right.

233
00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:07,520
Speaker 3: I would assume.

234
00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,120
Speaker 1: But we've also talked about that too, because when your

235
00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,720
Speaker 1: partner first got it. I was remembering the times we've

236
00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:20,800
Speaker 1: talked about instances in our lives where somebody has gotten

237
00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,760
Speaker 1: it in a household and then somehow, even despite being

238
00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,240
Speaker 1: in contact with that person, maybe even despite of not

239
00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:29,520
Speaker 1: being vaccinated, they.

240
00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:34,559
Speaker 3: Never got it right. So it's just hard to predict.

241
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know. I haven't said it that

242
00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,880
Speaker 2: we did get paxlovid, which is what is used for

243
00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,480
Speaker 2: the treatment of COVID today, and I think we felt

244
00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,120
Speaker 2: better after like the four day period. Like I said,

245
00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,920
Speaker 2: I'm just really fatigued still. But again, if I'm not

246
00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,559
Speaker 2: maybe like predisposed to have like some type of narcolyptic

247
00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,480
Speaker 2: reaction or just like that type of reaction anyway, the

248
00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,920
Speaker 2: shutdown reaction, maybe that's why I'm more likely to be fatigued. Still.

249
00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,640
Speaker 2: He seems to be doing a lot better than I am,

250
00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,120
Speaker 2: but his cough is a lot worse than mine. So

251
00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:14,280
Speaker 2: it's interesting. But with all of that, I also have

252
00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,520
Speaker 2: COVID brain, I think, because I can't think of a

253
00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,640
Speaker 2: thing right now. I just lost my train and Fox

254
00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,040
Speaker 2: literally just spaced out.

255
00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:22,240
Speaker 3: She's got the COVID.

256
00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:27,000
Speaker 2: Fuck, oh my god. So, like I think it really

257
00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,880
Speaker 2: is important. So if you if you do test positive,

258
00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,440
Speaker 2: I tell, like I would tell most people, if you

259
00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,600
Speaker 2: can grab it. And the way we did it, we

260
00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,920
Speaker 2: actually went to non a sponsor CVS like a minute clinic,

261
00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,800
Speaker 2: so if you can find a minute clinic of sorts,

262
00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,960
Speaker 2: and we did telehelp and the nurse practitioner they were

263
00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,640
Speaker 2: very kind, kind of hard to like they knew what

264
00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:49,920
Speaker 2: was going on, and they like think they could could

265
00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:55,240
Speaker 2: tell by my boys that there's something wrong. And but

266
00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,240
Speaker 2: the only problem was like trying to get the medication

267
00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,400
Speaker 2: was kind of a hassle. But like getting it, I

268
00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,240
Speaker 2: think it is important. But again I told you and

269
00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,640
Speaker 2: bridget packs, a little bit of mouth is a thing

270
00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:11,600
Speaker 2: where it tastes like rotten, Like it's just like a constant.

271
00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:15,960
Speaker 2: So have some kind of like hard candy or something

272
00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,080
Speaker 2: on hand because it does affect and it affects how

273
00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:19,960
Speaker 2: you taste everything.

274
00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,480
Speaker 3: Oh it was bad. It was bad.

275
00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,200
Speaker 2: Uh, it was real bad. So just enough why I

276
00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,880
Speaker 2: do it, But be prepared because like I just saw

277
00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,040
Speaker 2: a TikTok video. It was funny. After I did all that,

278
00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:36,440
Speaker 2: it shows that it popped up there like no one

279
00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:41,840
Speaker 2: was talking about this enough. It messes you up but

280
00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,240
Speaker 2: worth it, but you need to do it. I really think,

281
00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,240
Speaker 2: like again, because our case was pretty severe. I don't know,

282
00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:50,280
Speaker 2: I can't safe for share that we would have been

283
00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,960
Speaker 2: hospitalized for something. But my partner at one point I

284
00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,160
Speaker 2: like slept in the living room because he was upstairs

285
00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,560
Speaker 2: because I wanted to make sure I could hear him,

286
00:15:58,760 --> 00:15:59,960
Speaker 2: just to get something went down.

287
00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:06,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I saw today that. I mean, I probably

288
00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,480
Speaker 1: everyone who's listening notes, but there has been a huge

289
00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,400
Speaker 1: uptick in cases and the government is going to start

290
00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,800
Speaker 1: sending you can get free tests again on September twenty fifth,

291
00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,720
Speaker 1: so sign up for that. They were saying, yeah, the

292
00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:29,440
Speaker 1: hospitalizations are yes.

293
00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,880
Speaker 2: There's TikTok video with it where there is an actual

294
00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,240
Speaker 2: I think it's like something about treating. It's like the

295
00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,160
Speaker 2: whole idea is like they will do a questionnaire online

296
00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,440
Speaker 2: and then send you free tests and if you send

297
00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,040
Speaker 2: tests positive, they'll help you get packed lovied like this.

298
00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,880
Speaker 2: It is all free. It's all free service because of

299
00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,920
Speaker 2: the uptick has gotten so bad. So I know that

300
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,920
Speaker 2: there's little site everywhere that if you need free because

301
00:16:57,960 --> 00:16:58,960
Speaker 2: I actually the packs love it.

302
00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,360
Speaker 3: I got was free and I got I got the

303
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,240
Speaker 3: new vaccine. It kicked for like one day, but I

304
00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,159
Speaker 3: feel much better now. Yeah, I got that.

305
00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,920
Speaker 2: You also got the flu shot shot.

306
00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,920
Speaker 3: And that, but I feel much better.

307
00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:13,719
Speaker 2: The fact that you're only out for a day as

308
00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,360
Speaker 2: previously you're like that first, oh my gosh.

309
00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, no, I feel great. I actually sucked

310
00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,840
Speaker 1: really well, probably because.

311
00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:29,760
Speaker 2: Of the vaccine. Go to bed right now, no, do it? Yeah,

312
00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,040
Speaker 2: but it's no joke. Like I know, we've talked. We

313
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,280
Speaker 2: haven't talked about it enough recently. We just got like

314
00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,719
Speaker 2: I've been lax. I've been laxed, but like there are

315
00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:40,960
Speaker 2: things like people living their daily lives, so it's harder

316
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,719
Speaker 2: to do to avoid it. This was unavoidable if we

317
00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:46,879
Speaker 2: were going to do an event like Dragon Con, I know,

318
00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,400
Speaker 2: Comic Con and all these different kinds of cons are happening,

319
00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,840
Speaker 2: it's inevitable people are going to get it and it's

320
00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:55,879
Speaker 2: going to be a huge uptick. And this new strain

321
00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,760
Speaker 2: gives no Apparently the new vaccine is supposed to be

322
00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,560
Speaker 2: specific to this new strain. But it's like it's bad,

323
00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,879
Speaker 2: and I'm glad that we were Okay, I'm glad passle

324
00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,560
Speaker 2: of it exists that I could access it. And I

325
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,959
Speaker 2: know that it can be hard, but you can access it,

326
00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,879
Speaker 2: just you may need to find like google how to

327
00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,719
Speaker 2: get free treatment. I will say because of the uptick,

328
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,760
Speaker 2: several pharmacists have run out, pharmacies have run out.

329
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I will also say they're working to fix this.

330
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,280
Speaker 1: But there has been trouble with insurance getting the new vaccine.

331
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:39,640
Speaker 1: Oh really certain insurances, yes, yes, so yeah. And there

332
00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,920
Speaker 1: is also a thing I saw and when I read

333
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,560
Speaker 1: the headline, I was like, yep, which is called COVID fatigue,

334
00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,960
Speaker 1: where everyone's like, yeah, I'm gonna get it.

335
00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:54,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is how I'm feeling.

336
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,320
Speaker 1: Because I have this work trip and then I'm going

337
00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,920
Speaker 1: to Earlando. I'm going to see what this vaccine does,

338
00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,080
Speaker 1: and I'm going to try to be safe and avoid things,

339
00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,760
Speaker 1: but we're gonna see and you and I we're gonna

340
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,680
Speaker 1: check in once you get back from New York, once

341
00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,800
Speaker 1: I get back for Orlando, when.

342
00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,119
Speaker 2: I have to have check in for a couple of weeks.

343
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,480
Speaker 1: And then I'll get to see what episodes you do

344
00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,440
Speaker 1: without me. Because I was like, oh, Samantha isn't here,

345
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about she would and I love it.

346
00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,480
Speaker 3: I was like let's talk about Twister.

347
00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,960
Speaker 2: I don't love that movie. I'm good with that. You

348
00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:32,719
Speaker 2: want that.

349
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,399
Speaker 1: There was some that I was like, well, I have

350
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,439
Speaker 1: to come back when Samantha's better, because I know she

351
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:37,320
Speaker 1: would like this one.

352
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 2: Well, y'all, please be safe an Yeah, be cautious as

353
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,760
Speaker 2: cautious as you can. You can't. Unfortunately, there's no stopping life,

354
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:54,679
Speaker 2: damn unfortunately, and there's no stopping COVID. It seems to

355
00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,480
Speaker 2: be a thing. To me. This was worse than the flu.

356
00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,159
Speaker 2: So for those who were saying it's like the flu, oh,

357
00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,040
Speaker 2: I stopped breathing like for thirty seconds, I would point

358
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,959
Speaker 2: it hurt. Yeah, hurt real bad. So be cautious as

359
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,040
Speaker 2: you can, take care of yourself. And yeah, if you

360
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,080
Speaker 2: feel like something's wrong, check.

361
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,880
Speaker 3: Yes, yes it was.

362
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,760
Speaker 1: I mean it wasn't funny, but it was kind of humorous.

363
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 1: How quickly all of the group was like, oh, I tested.

364
00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 3: Pout me too.

365
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, nolt real quick it, dude.

366
00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,439
Speaker 3: But I am so glad you're feeling at least a

367
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 3: little bit better.

368
00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,200
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm not lying in bed.

369
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 3: Yes, and your partner is better. I had two friends

370
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 3: who got it there better. They also had pretty severe cases.

371
00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, we want you to be safe and we're

372
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:46,400
Speaker 1: glad you're back.

373
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,439
Speaker 3: Samantha. Thank you.

374
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,120
Speaker 2: Yes, I missed y'all.

375
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,159
Speaker 3: I missed you too. I was sitting here doing a

376
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 3: happy hour by myself and I was like, what is this.

377
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 3: I don't know what this says about me?

378
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,159
Speaker 1: But before I'm very excited slash a little nervous for

379
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 1: our check in. But before we get to those check ins,

380
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 1: if you would like to write to us, you can.

381
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 1: Our email is Stuff Media mom Stuff at iHeartMedia dot com.

382
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter at mom Stuff podcast,

383
00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 1: or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff One Never Told You.

384
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: We have a tea public store, and we have a book.

385
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 1: You can buy it and rate it.

386
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:29,479
Speaker 3: At stuff.

387
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: You should read books dot com or wherever you get

388
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: your books. My mom bought it, Samantha. And it's been

389
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 1: a real rollercoaster ride. And thanks as always to our

390
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:47,159
Speaker 1: super producer Christina, our executive producer Maya, and our contributor Joey.

391
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: Thank you and thanks to you for listening Stuff on

392
00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,959
Speaker 1: Ever Told You's production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from

393
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio, you can check out the heart Radio

394
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: app Apple podcast, wherever you listen to your favorite shows,