Welcome to the Covid Rebound, yet another surprise.

When I first heard of the Covid Paxloved Rebound, I assumed it would bring a welcome recovery after the first worst days of the virus.

My doctor and several blog readers informed me that that was a mistake. Paxlovid is an anti-viral drug touted as a game changer in Covid treatment.

It keeps people like me out of the hospital and off of ventilators. But it’s not that simple.

My hubris gets a smack whenever I conclude this is over, and I learn otherwise. If nothing else, Covid teaches us how little we know about it.

I’m having a rebound, which means I’m getting sick again.

This weekend becomes another time of rest and peacefulness, a healing weekend. Maria is much better; she still tires easily but is back at work, full of life, curiosity, and love. Her presence is always healing.

I appreciate the goodwill messages and other people’s stories of coping with Covid. This pulls me out of myself and reminds me that I am fortunate in many ways.

It’s a cliche, but it’s true; it would always be worse. Self-pity is an enemy also.

I’m learning that it”s surprisingly common for the symptoms of covid to return in people who were not vaccinated after they take the new anti-viral drug (2021).

Researchers are now finding that the virus’s comeback is even fiercer and more common in people who have taken Paxloivid – people like me, who are both vaccinated and boosted.

Yesterday I had firsthand evidence that this can be true. I finished my doses of Paxlovid, which seemed to blunt Covid, and they came back with a growl if not yet a roar.

Suddenly, I was pretty sick again.

I started coughing again, and the congestion, sore throat, and sleeplessness returned, but not as severely as when COvid first struck.

My doctors say to be prepared; the Rebound can be just as bad as the initial outburst but will most likely not last as long or be quite as severe.

Then it really should get a lot better.

I have heart disease and diabetes, making Paxlovid more critical and making the Rebound worse. I guess I’ll find out.

I can say that I feel worse today than I did on Thursday or Friday, but not as bad as I did when the symptoms first appeared last weekend.

Nothing about Covid is simple, fully understood, always predictable, or is anything like a straight line.

Medical researchers say that trials have shown that Paxlovid keeps Covid from getting worse, especially in the most vulnerable patients and does people out of the hospital.

I learned about the Rebound just before I recovered. That’s a good thing. It might be uncomfortable, but it needn’t be frightening.

Every day I am humbled by what I don’t know and need to learn.

I’ll be resting this weekend, but I will also be taking photos and blogging. Thanks for being there.

I won’t be able to accompany the Mansion residents to the County Fair, but I intend to be at Bishop Gibbons High School very soon to meet with Killian, a student who wants to be a writer.

I am eager to be a mentor to a student who wants to be a writer.

That idea alone will spur my recovery.