{"id":2458085,"date":"2020-05-05T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/i-think-i-caught-coronavirus-and-heres-how-it-felt\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T05:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:52:42","slug":"i-think-i-caught-coronavirus-and-heres-how-it-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/i-think-i-caught-coronavirus-and-heres-how-it-felt\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I caught coronavirus and here\u2019s how it felt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I feel compelled to write about my bout with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

I caught it in Waikiki on Jan. 1. Hawaii has many mainland Chinese tourists and I stayed at a hotel that had many.<\/p>\n

I feel I caught it in the elevator. It wasn\u2019t any more severe than a common cold, but the symptoms are quite different as there is no runny nose, it was mostly congestion which I hacked up often, fever of 99 and a cough. I was slightly tired, but never stayed in.<\/p>\n

When the word of the coronavirus spread I had no idea I had had it, it sounded awful. Then I heard on TV that conjunctivitis almost always comes with COVID-19. On Jan. 4 I had seen a doctor because my eyes started to burn. They were crusty and oozed green pus just a few days after the virus hit me, and the doctor confirmed I had conjunctivitis (pink eye).<\/p>\n

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