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 "quarantine" should be used only for people suspected to have an infectious disease, not for confirmed cases. But I finally went to lookup the word in a dictionary yesterday and confirmed that the word "quarantine" can be used to describe isolation of people with confirmed infections.

The good news is, my roommate left a lot of (useful) items for me. Tissue bags, Wang Wang (snack), a cup of instant noodles, some packs of crackers, apples and oranges in the fridge, a bottle of hand sanitiser, and a bottle of liquid soap dispenser at the toilet sink.

As for my sense of smell... today (at around 4.30am of Sunday, which is Saturday night) I was finally able to smell the shampoo which my friend gave me since 14 September (last Tuesday). I had been using the shampoo every day!

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