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Day 15 - Best Meal and THE CALL

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(Sorry again for this super late update... this is a retroactive update... I should have posted this 7 days ago... Too many things have happened!... I had problems using a laptop for many days...)  Today is Friday 24 September 2021. Today is Day 15 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago and Day 13 since my arrival at this isolation facility (CCF: "Community Care Facility") two Sundays ago. Today I await the results of my COVID PCR test yesterday. I was thinking they would call me or SMS me (today or tomorrow) to inform me of my result (just like what happened after I took my previous COVID test at my neighborhood clinic on 10 September). But that did not happen - they did not notify or update me regarding my test result.  Anyway, on another note, I wish to share the highlight of today - Today's lunch. It was the best meal I had at the facility so far!! In all the two weeks I was here!! Fried chicken drumlets. I haven't had fried chicken (whole pieces of wings/drumlets) al...
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Day 14 - First COVID Test at CCF

(Sorry for the late update... I should have posted this 3 days ago. Too many things have happened!)  Today is Thursday 23 September 2021. Today is Day 14 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago and Day 12 since my arrival at this isolation facility (CCF: "Community Care Facility") two Sundays ago. Yes, today was the day I was waiting for, for such a long time!! I arrived at this quarantine facility two weeks ago, on Sunday 12 Sep 2021. They didn't do any COVID test on me since then. (They did a blood test on me on 17 Sep, but that is an antibody test to check when I got infected, rather than whether I am positive or not. They did not explain it fully to me, but from my own general knowledge, I know covid antibodies are produced by the body's immune system to fight a covid infection. So when the amount of covid antibodies in my body has reached a certain level, it shows that I have been infected for a certain period of time.) Today is my first COVID test since I arrived at ...
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Day 13 - Topsy Turvy Sleeping Cycle

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Today is Wednesday 22 September 2021. Today is Day 13 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago and Day 11 since my arrival at this isolation facility two Sundays ago. Today my entire sleeping cycle was turned upside down.  I had mentioned (in one of my blog posts a few days ago) that I am used to sleeping between 3 to 5 am. However, today I slept from 3+pm (22 Sept) to 3+am (23 Sept) (with a 30 minute dinner break at 6.00 pm to 6.30 pm).  Apart from my disrupted sleeping cycle, there is nothing unusual to report today.  Everything else is normal.  No fever, no sore throat. (and no diarrhea - yesterday's diarrhea was a one-off thing). Cough and loss of smell remains. Today I started eating this packet of sweets which my sister gave me (I brought these with me when I packed my bags in my room at home 2 weeks ago): I can taste the sweetness and lemon flavour of the sweets. It is nice.  Tomorrow will be my COVID swab test at last. I have been waiting 2 weeks for it! What ...
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Day 12 - Surprise Diarrhea

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 Today is Day 12 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago, and Day 10 since entering this isolation facility two Sundays ago. Today is Tuesday 21 September 2021. Summary: No fever, no sore throat.  Cough still the same, loss of smell & taste still the same. Yesterday I slept really late, like 8.30am (usually I sleep at between 3 to 5 am).  I slept till about 2pm plus. So that's about 5 hours of sleep.  Ok something weird happened this afternoon.  I had a bout of diarrhea in the afternoon! Went to the toilet twice with an upset stomach and watery stools. What could be the cause? I don't know.  Possibilities: -banana I ate in the fridge yesterday left by my roommate (or did I eat it 2 days ago?) -grapes I ate in the fridge yesterday (my sense of taste and smell are not working well, so I might not be able to tell if they have gone bad) -apple I ate in the fridge yesterday left by my roommate. (but it looked perfectly fine, big and red, was crunchy and juicy) -a...
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Day 11 - Bad Cough, Smell Improving

Today is Day 11 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago, and Day 9 since entering this isolation facility two Sundays ago. Today is Monday 20 September 2021. This morning I overslept! I had been waking up at 8.00am every day for breakfast, but today I woke at around 10.30am.  I guess that's what happens when you no longer have a roommate. Nope, they didn't replace my roommate. I guess that is actually worse for me, to be staying alone, (since there would be nobody to report any problems if anything happens to me). But better in a way because I no longer have to listen to his phone conversations! Generally today is uneventful.  My cough got really bad this afternoon when I was coughing like crazy for a while.  But I am still not going to ask for cough medication as I never felt any cough medication ever helped with coughing. Also  I can smell my shampoo today slightly better than the previous 2 days. Instead of just smelling it when I put it on my hand, I can smell it when...
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Day 10 - Goodbye to My Roommate

 Today is Day 10 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago, and Day 8 since entering the quarantine facility last Sunday. Today is Sunday 19 September 2021. I no longer have a fever so I will not be reporting my temperature on my blog posts anymore. Also, I don't have a sore throat anymore.  My cough still remains. My loss of smell and taste also persists. So.....What's news today? My roommate is discharged today! He has been with me for 7 days (he arrived at the facility on the same day as me). Reason? He has stayed 7 days here. Apparently, for people who are vaccinated, they only need to stay 7 days at the quarantine facility. Then, they are discharged regardless of test results. In fact, they didn't even do any test on him! Whereas for me, I have to test negative before I can qualify for discharge. Sidenote: After writing this blog for 10 days, this is the first blog post where I used the word "quarantine" to describe my stay here. Reason is because I thought the word...
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Day 9 - First Weekend at Isolation Facility

Today is Day 9 since my diagnosis two Fridays ago, and Day 7 since entering this isolation facility last Sunday. Today is Saturday 18 September 2021. This is the first weekend I encountered since being sent to this isolation facility (or CCF, "Community Care Facility".) This morning my temperature was 36.3 deg C. Lowest reading ever! (actually my first reading was 35.5 deg C but I think that was an error, too low! So I retook my temp.) I feel no fever at all.  My sore throat is 99% gone now. I even gave some of my sore throat pills to my roommate because I am sure I won't be needing them anymore. My sense of smell & taste remains 90% non-functional. I am able to smell for 0.5 seconds if I take a strong sniff at something with a strong smell e.g. meat, but not more than that. My cough has improved a little bit since yesterday. But I am not going to bother reporting it or asking for medication for it, since it is not very severe. So what's the biggest news today?  M...
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