Out of Iso

Last Sunday at 3:38am I was sent a very long text message about what I had to do having tested positive to covid. Part of it said "You can leave isolation on 11/06/2022." So I suppose now I'm free to go.

(Beautiful cyclamen gift from my neighbour the day before I got sick).

Each day (including today) I have been sent a link to a reporting tool to record my symptoms, including blood oxygen levels. (The same neighbour kindly collected the oxygen meter from the health service in Ballarat for me). For the first few days someone from the local health service rang to talk to me about how I was going, but they haven't bothered since Wednesday. I suppose by then they knew I wasn't sick enough for them to be concerned.

For a day or two during the week I couldn't taste anything, and for a day I could hardly stand up or walk because my balance was was all screwed up. The well-known symptoms of runny nose, cough, sore throat and tiredness gradually lessened during the week, and now I feel just about back to normal.

Sometime during the week a large chunk of a tree fell down on our block:

But we only noticed it yesterday.

One of my zygocactuses almost has a flower:

These used to flower for my birthday in the city, but they are a couple of weeks or so later in the colder climate here.

I don't know if a rapid test will still show up as positive. I will have to try one at home before going to visit my mother. Don't want to drive all that way only to find out that they won't let me in.

This afternoon I made a couple of test blocks for Preeti's 2022 Positivity Quilt-Along. Block tutorial here.

I will probably make enough for a small quilt to donate here. But I was also interested in the block because of something that has been in the back of my mind for a while, that I mentioned when I took a trip to Amitié 4 years ago.