COVID diary days 5–7

My COVID-19 infection and isolation experience, continued. (Previous posts: days 1–2, 3–4)

November 2

…and I woke up at noon, to my son shaking me. Apparently my family wanted me to do a quick vitals check.

Numbly I stuck my finger in a tiny pulse-ox device and let Owain scan my forehead. How did it get to be noon? How did I sleep… 12 hours?

I don’t think I woke up at all through that vast swamp of sleeping. My body just dove down deeply into rest and didn’t choose to return me to the daylight world. I would easily…