Day Four (possibly)

Well, my main covid symptom is itching. It's similar but not the same as my usual eczema - normal eczema starts off red and itchy and if not headed off with emollients goes into bumps and eventually cracks and stings. This is a flat red mostly round my neck and on my scalp (my usual eczema mostly effects the inner fold of my elbow and my wrists), that doesn't change appearance no matter how I moisturise or how badly it itches. It also itches in waves, which is frankly bizarre.

The lack of exercise (because I'm isolating) and itching combined are making it very hard to sleep and a couple of times I've got up and washed my hair in the small hours of the morning and sat with a damp towel around my head to cool the itch down and let me sleep (I suspect that's possibly not a healthy thing to do while suffering from a virus, but it's better than not sleeping, surely?). 

There are also bright pink patches around my eyes that make me look terrible - worse than I feel, frankly, as my eyes have stopped being light sensitive, my fatigue is gone and my cold type symptoms are minimal. That mild cough is also going away already and never seemed to get lower than my throat. If this is all I'm getting I've been extraordinarily lucky, and probably shouldn't complain, but I am getting very fed up of these four walls now and would actually welcome going into work, even. 

So far everyone I've been in contact with is still testing negative - my cousin did sit us out in the garden, so I've still got my fingers crossed. Although they're increasingly convinced, like I was, that they will get it at some stage, I don't particularly want to be the vector. 

As I say, lucky so far. I'm even able to work from home.