Thread by @Geek_Manager

Had to cancel monthly trip to Newcastle for #EhlersDanlos treatments, so no #ShittestTopGearChallenge last weekend.

Got home last Thurs night feeling increasingly rough ... like a relapse of the chest infection I had on returning from Barcelona in January.

In Jan, just woke up one morning with a death rattle on every exhale & high temperature. Assumed I’d somehow gotten bronchitis without first having a cold or flu, spent a couple of weeks working from home & resting. Needed CPAP some daytimes as struggling to breathe (unusual)

One thing with my manifestation of #EhlersDanlos is my ribs dislocate really easily, so I can easily go from a cold to bronchitis or pneumonia. I’m one of those “underlying conditions” people who’s more at risk. Multiple docs have left me w a ready-to-dispense antibiotics script

On Thurs night it felt like it came back suddenly, tho perhaps hadn’t ever *fully* cleared.

High temp, cough, but this time with added aches & pains. Weirdly joint pain from flu is a different flavour of pain to the typical dislocations / subluxations of #EhlersDanlos

I’ve been in bed sick for a week at this point, sleeping 12-16 hours per day.

Been triaged by doctors but I can’t get a coronavirus / COVID-19 test as haven’t been overseas in last 14 days, nor been in close contact with a *confirmed* case 🤷🏻‍♀️ Seems a policy to hugely undertest

There’s a scene in The Carebear Movie where a bunch of carebears are hanging from a tree, and they hear a lion coming.

One of them whisper-shouts “Quick, close your eyes, maybe it won’t see us!”

Why is UK gov taking its #COVID_19 strategy from a 1985 movie about magical bears?!