Always one to be different, I got pneumonia amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Coughing, high fevers, weak, felt like I was going to die, swabbed (twice!) (yuck) for coronavirus, but, lucky me, pneumonia, not pandemic. Lucky, yes. But still, sicker than a dog. For more than a week, I had teeth-rattling fevers of 103-plus. For more…
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Bay Area
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