'The fever was first, then chills, body aches, and just an extreme fatigue'
Joseph Papa and John Stuart-Fauquet Photo: Joseph Papa and John Stuart-Fauquet Joseph Papa and his husband John Stuart-Fauquet both caught COVID-19 following separate work trips to New York earlier this month. The couple met in the city in 2012 and moved four years later to Richmond, Virginia, where Papa, a freelance book publicist, has family. Stuart-Fauquet, 37, had been in his Lexington Avenue office at the same time as another person who later tested positive for the coronavirus.
My husband was already in New York, starting five days before I came up. He is an executive recruiter and his firm is based there. His office was at 575 Lexington and a recent article in the Daily News said that someone in the building tested positive. He did not work in the WeWork where someone has tested positive. We both took a plane back to Virginia on March 4.
The cough was just a dry, fairly unremarkable cough. The respiratory symptoms for us — and we’re both healthy — have been shortness of breath, being very easily winded, and at times just feeling like we aren’t taking in full breaths. We’re breathing normally, but you’re only getting 80 percent of what you think.
It felt a little like a movie. We were put into a different section, they were wearing different clothing. It was like the opening scene of Contagion where they start doing those tests. It was strange. We were tested for flu, which was negative. We were swabbed in the throat and nose for corona. If you’ve ever had a strep test, it’s essentially that. I’d never had a nose swab. It’s an odd feeling. I hear they’re shifting to a spit test. The doctors were wearing masks.
We did remember everywhere we’ve been because we had already started to worry about it. We were presuming positive. We’re both calendar-keepers. As soon as we started showing symptoms, we didn’t see anybody. We’ve been without a fever for 24 hours, but still have body chills, aches, shortness of breath, the exhaustion, and we’re really very tired all the time. All guidance points to us not going into a medical facility. We’re not wearing masks inside because we both have it and no one is coming in here. We’ve had friends drop off Clorox wipes and Lysol. Once a day, just for our own peace of mind, I wipe things down. We sleep pretty well. That is one thing that has not been interrupted.
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