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Fellas,

I am truly humbled and touched deeply by the outpouring of thoughts and prayers. I can't begin to express to you how much it means to me and my family. Thank you all so much. To those of you in the health care profession that deal with Covid on the daily, you guys and gals are heroes.

I'm not ready to go yet, I have two girls in college and have 11 months before I retire at 54. Plenty of time to start a whole new set of adventures. Continue traveling, riding my motorcycle. Ect. Thats the plan.

First we gotta get through this Covid mess. I've been less then impressed with the precautions they have taken at my job in order to protect us from exposure. I deal with to many people, and I mean coworkers who just aren't cautious enough. I'm one of few people in my office that took the vaccine.

In my case. I tested positive for covid a few days after I took the vaccine. So did my wife. In hindsight, i think i was already positive when i took the vaccine.
I had a mild cough earlier in the week and took the vaccine on Friday. By Saturday i had a fever and nausea which i though was just a reaction to the vaccine. This worsened, so Monday we got another covid test which was positive. My wife was able to get her fever down and thankfully is doing great. We were not able to get my temperature down and my O2 levels dropped down to 83%. Long story short. I ended up going to the ER. They found i had pneumonia in both lungs. They were able to control my temperature They immediately put me on oxygen, which im still on currently, gave me a slew of steroids and convalescent plasma and now I hope to recover at home. Its just gonna take some time... I feel blessed that I think we caught the lung issue early enough and again with time will recover. Another problem I'm having is loss of taste. The only thing I can barely tolerate are egg whites. Everything is awful. Even water doesn't taste good. Its really starting to mess with my head. Its a struggle, but I'll get thru this.

Sorry, for rambling guys. Thanks again everyone for the well wishes. I'll keep you all updated on the progress.