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cloudslostlibrary · 2 years

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Covid update, day two-three

Tw: puking, fever, food, eating, Covid, general sickness, brief mention of death, medicine, emotional abuse (?), long, definitely tmi, bathroom talk, cramps, if you have a trigger it is probably in here and I wouldn’t recommend reading this.

I wanted to get this all out so I didn’t have to have it all in my head anymore. Feel free to read. I posted this because I haven’t seen many people of my age having symptoms like I have. I didn’t think Covid would effect me as much as it has because everyone said if you’re young and vaccinated you should be fine. I figured if I haven’t seen anyone talking about it maybe others haven’t too, so I’d like to share my story even if it isn’t finished yet.

Around 9pm I texted my mom asking if she could make me some coffee if she wasn’t already asleep. She was asleep so, against my better judgement I wandered out in to the kitchen to get myself a snack instead because I wanted something sweet and I didn’t want to touch the coffee maker (most people in the house touch it daily so I didn’t want to risk it). My house is very open so although I had to cross through the living room and the dining room to get to the kitchen, I didn’t have to touch anything so I didn’t feel like I would get anyone else sick. Upon walking into the kitchen I saw a box of those really nice muffins on top of the microwave. Four chocolate, three banana nut, five blueberry each in their own individual wrapping. I had originally wanted to get fruit snacks but they were in the cabinet and it felt selfish to be touching common areas just because I wanted a snack. The ONLY snacks were the box muffins, two bunches of unripe bananas hanging on the fruit basket and three grapefruit sitting in the window seal.

Now something to know about me is that most foods hurt my stomach. I’m not sure why but citrus fruits especially hurt my stomach and make my mouth bleed so I decided against the grapefruit. I knew they were my step father’s anyway so I didn’t want to take food that wasn’t mine.

I stood over the muffins for probably the better part of thirty minutes trying to decide which muffin I would take back to my room. Because of my nature I knew I wouldn’t be able to decide the regular way. I instead chose the classic, ennie, meanie, minnie, moe. For those of you that don’t know that game because I know some cultures outside of where I’m from play a different version or don’t play at all, here is how the game goes.

To start the game you have to decide what you’re choosing from and preferably get them all within pointing distance. As you sing the song, each word you point to a different option, usually in a clockwise motion. When the song is finished, whatever you are pointing at on the last word gets eliminated and you repeat until there is only one option left and that is the one you go with. The song goes like this:

Ennie, meanie, minnie, moe, catch a tiger by his toe. If he hollers let him go, ennie, meanie, minnie, moe.

Now as I’m writing this I remember this song has a very bad history so I’ll probably go back to rolling a dice when I can touch things in common space again. Also I imagine I spelled most of the words wrong, I will fix it later for now it is just spelled phonetically.

I play this game a little differently than most however. I use how I felt about each option when it got eliminated to decide which one I really wanted. Turns out I wanted the chocolate one. So I grab the chocolate one, careful not to touch anything except the plastic wrapping that concealed it and walked back to my room. Once I entered my room I set the muffin down, put hand sanitizer on, and sat down at my desk to enjoy my meal.

Once I finished eating I decided I was ready for bed and laid down. I imagine going to sleep right after eating was my first mistake- not including eating the muffin.

I tossed and turned in my sleep as I tend to do. I was never a good sleeper and after my father passed away it only got worse. I woke a couple times through the night but immediately went back to bed. Until 3am. Now something to know about me is that I am super paranoid and afraid to sleep, but for some reason when I’m sick I just lose that quality. So I woke up at three feeling horrible. I immediately checked my temperature. 100.4 (Fahrenheit), not bad at all considering the first day I was at 102 for a while. I took some medicine, drank some water, and right after entered a horrible coughing fit.

Quick side note- because of an eye condition I have (didn’t know this was what was causing it at the time) I have been very prone to nausea since I was born. Everytime I would get into a car until I was twelve I would puke and puke until there was nothing left in my stomach. For the last few years of that I couldn’t eat anything a few hours before getting into a car. I would only drink water so that way when I puked it wouldn’t feel so bad. I would get yelled at and threatened each time. Got into a car, and after I’d puked in it. We carried plastic bags where ever we went so I wouldn’t puke on other people in the car. At 12 I was allowed to sit in the front seat, and for some reason I stopped puking. I’m not sure if that’s causation or correlation but whatever it was it worked. Since then I have not been able to puke what so ever. If I was sick, or choking on something, I just couldn’t puke, I imagine because of how often I puked in my childhood and my fear of getting yelled at for it.

During the coughing fit I must have woken my mom up because she came into my room asking if I had taken medicine. I told her I had. She asked me if I still wanted coffee. I said sure because the warmth had been helping my throat for the past few days.

A few minutes later my mother came back with a warm water and the coffee. We talked for a bit about what was hurting and why I was up and she gave me some more medicine she thought would help. After that she left me to go back to sleep and I sat on my bed and drank my coffee.

I realized that I was so cold I had goosebumps and was shaking. Shaking is no good when you’ve got steaming hot coffee in your hands so I wrapped my weighted blanket around my shoulders and my fluffy blanket around my lap, tucking it under my knees so I would keep all the heat in.

I drank my coffee for about thirty minutes and then set it on the ground next to my bed. I felt like I was going to start coughing again so grabbed two tissues from my box and held them over my mouth while I coughed.

I coughed once

I coughed twice

I coughed three times and then I puked water and coffee into my hand and my fluffy blanket.

Glad I hadn’t ate in a few hours I told my self.

As a typical kid (17) I texted my mom saying I’d thrown up on myself, and my blanket. After throwing my blanket on the ground I realized I’d puked on my sheets too.

Just my luck.

I stood up off my bed and my hips felt like they were being ripped apart. My mom had told me that was something she and my step dad experienced when they had Covid so I wasn’t too surprised but it still felt horrible.

I slowly took all five of my pillows and put them by the foot of the bed, along with my weighted blanket. I put my sheets in the pile with my fluffy blanket as my mom opened my door. She asked me where I had puked and I just handed her the blanket and sheet. She had gloves on. When she came back I was wiping the mess from the tissue I’d thrown on the ground when I puked. I asked for a towel and she brought me one. I quickly cleaned up the mess and gave her the towel back. She walked away and I heard the low rumble of the washer starting.

She asked me if I needed new sheets since my bed was bare and I told her I had sheets, granted not fitted ones but it would work. My mom let me know that there was some old sheets that used to belong to my little brother I could use instead and brought them to me. She said goodnight and left me in my room to remake my bed.

I slowly put it all back together. I put the sheets on the bed, one hand holding my right hip as I leaned over the bed. I threw the pillows back on and somehow lugged the weighted blanket back on to my bed. I sat down and thought for a bit, drinking my water when I could.

Then the cramps hit me.

I’ve always had horrible cramps, currently I’m on birth control to even out my hormones but it also takes away my period and leaves me with horrible cramps. It’s honestly worth the trade off but that doesn’t make the cramps hurt any less.

As per my cramps I rushed to the bathroom and took some meds. Didn’t quite work I still ended up shitting my brains out. And if that wasn’t enough I then suddenly had the all to familiar urge to empty the rest of the contents in my stomach. I flushed the toilet and it went just quick enough for it to be empty by the time I was puking again. My nose was dripping snot, my eyes were watering, and I just felt absolutely pitiful. There was no one to comfort me. I hadn’t seen my family besides my mom since Monday (it was no Thursday) and my little brother is my biggest source of comfort.

I grabbed my towel from the rack behind me. It was a long semi fluffy blue towel that only I used. I had brought it with me when we moved and before I owned a blanket I would sleep with it. It was a large source of comfort for me so I wrapped it around me. I felt myself beginning to cry and I started panicking, which only made me want to cry more. I’m asthmatic so even regularly crying makes it hard for me to breathe, I’ve been terrified for days what will happen to my throat if I started crying now. I took a breath in, and as I breathed out I whispered “you’re okay.” Another breath in, another breathe out, “you’re okay.” Each breath I let out I reminded myself that I was okay. I might feel bad now but I am going to make it through this. I have horrible health related anxiety so it took me a while but after thirty minutes or so I started to believe the words I was telling myself.

Then I puked again.

This time the puking wasn’t as bad as I had already gotten rid of most everything except for all the water I had been drinking. That didn’t stop tears immediately falling from my eyes as I leaned against the bathtub once more. I again wrapped myself in the towel like a hug and repeated the phrase until I believed it. Eventually I must’ve fallen asleep because I woke up maybe ten or twenty minutes later.

I thought to myself, “why haven’t I seen anyone my age talking about having Covid symptoms like the ones I’m experiencing myself? Am I clicking the wrong content? Am I scrolling past it as it appears on my screen? Is no one else experiencing this?” Then, per usual, I started crying again and had to calm myself down.

Once I’d calmed down I figured, if I’ve not seen anyone else my age post things about their experience going through Covid like I have, maybe there are others like me who need a reminder that they’re going to be okay. That it’s scary but I’m not alone. That we aren’t alone. We are in a global pandemic. As of yesterday a google search quickly shows there has been 519 million cases of Coronavirus (519,000,000) worldwide. Plenty of us are sick right now. We are not alone. I am not alone.

To anyone else who is currently going through Covid, to anyone who has gone through Covid in the past, to anyone who has lost someone from Covid, or fears they soon will, feel free to add your thoughts. I hold on to the hope, however naive it may be, that we will all get better soon.

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guardian-rocket · 2 months

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/// Hello dear friends,

I wanted to provide a bit of an update on my lack of activity because it has not exactly been intentional. December was an absolute crazy month for me, I had an expensive car repair, immediately followed by my car getting absolutely destroyed in an accident and then to top it off when getting checked out for fractures from the accident I caught Covid19 for the first time. This obviously made the holidays a rough time which to be frank, we didn't celebrate much of, followed by my birthday which also was barely celebrated in January. I did have to purchase a new vehicle which has had its own string of challenges as I overcome my PTSD of being crashed into by a driver going 40MPH.

Now that basically explains what I've been up to since December to Janurary, as for February I have been doing some long past due spring cleaning, which includes going through my garage which is a huge project. I anticipate I'll be done before mid march, but wanted to let you know that I will do my best to make time to write soon and I miss it, and I miss my RP partners. Tagging a few people I have threads with to let them know I haven't forgotten them.

@byondtheveil @spidermanxnoir @brokenandlonelysouls @doctor-brucebanner @antvnger

There are probably a few more but if you want to remind me feel free to message me directly. Rocket may bite, but I do not. ///

#ooc

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ricisidro · 7 months

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#DOH reports 160 new cases today October 16, bringing the total nationwide caseload to 4,117,734 cases. ⬇️

#COVID19 #Philippines #PH

The top haulers for the day were: Quezon City 22 and Cavite 16.

NCR accounted for 44% (70) of the country's cases while 90 (56%) of the day's cases are in the provinces.

In the NCR, only Quezon City had double digits cases with 22. Thirteen LGUs had low digits cases. Three LGUs had Zero COVID: Marikina, Navotas and Pateros.

Outside the NCR, the only province with double digits cases is Cavite with 16. All other provinces had low single digit cases or ZERO COVID.

No recorded deaths today so the total death toll remains at 66,714.

The active cases slightly decreased to 3,031 from Las week's 3,092 active cases. ⬇️

The national positivity rate slightly increased to 5.6% from last week's positivity rate of 5.5%. ⬆️

The healthcare utilization rate remains at low risk.

Mask up correctly and stay in well-ventilated areas specially for the elderly and vulnerable groups. For additional protection against the threat of COVID-19, get the updated vaccine and booster jab. If you have symptoms - test and isolate.

Happy Monday ! Stay safe !

DOH site: https://doh.gov.ph/covid19tracker

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mongleelifestory · 11 months

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Real Estate Credit Investments: asset resilience, strong pipeline, 9% yield

Real Estate Credit Investments (LON:RECI) has announced its Q4 investor presentation prepared by the Company’s Investment Manager to provide investors with an update of the position of the Company as at 31 March 2023.

Key Quarter Updates

• Portfolio

– Total NAV Return for the quarter: +1.2%

– No defaults in the portfolio

– Rotation of market bond portfolio into strong senior loans with attractive returns

– During the quarter, four French loans fully repaid, realising net proceeds of £54.4m, and providing headroom to invest in new deals at enhanced IRRs

• Cash

– Cash reserves remain targeted at between 5% to 10% of NAV

– As at 31 March 2023, cash was £17.0m.

• Dividend

– Dividends maintained at 3p per quarter, 9.0% yield, based on share price, as at 31 March 2023

– Dividend predominantly covered by interest income

• Financing

– A mix of flexible, short-dated financing employed, alongside term-matched structured financing on selected high-quality senior loan deals

• Opportunities

– The present macroeconomic backdrop is set to continue through 2023, resulting in further constraints in bank lending and alternative sources of capital. The opportunity to provide senior loans at low risk points, for higher margins, is increasingly evident

– The Company expects to deploy its currently available cash resources to its near term commitments and towards a compelling emerging opportunity set in senior loans

> Attractive returns from defensive, senior, low LTV credit exposure to UK and European commercial real estate assets

• A focus on senior, 1st lien loans:

• Senior 1st lien loans now account for 82% of the total portfolio by commitment value

• Top 10 positions are 100% senior loans

• New origination is 100% senior loans

• Weighted Average LTV on total portfolio by commitment value of 58.6% as at 31 March 2023

• Predominantly large, well capitalised, and experienced institutional borrowers

• Minimal exposure to shopping centres (<2% of GAV), secondary offices (0% of GAV) and logistics (<3% of GAV)

• RECI retains absolute governance, covenants and control, afforded by senior ranking and bilateral singular lending relationships

• Portfolio has withstood COVID19 and other macro events, and is well placed to withstand the current revaluations in real estate

> Quarterly dividends delivered consistently since October 2013

• The Company has consistently sought to pay a stable quarterly dividend from its distributable profits

• This has led to a stable annualised dividend of around 7% of NAV

> Highly granular book

• 53 positions

> Transparent and conservative leverage

• Net leverage 20.0% (with £17m cash) as at 31 March 2023 versus a leverage limit of 40%

• Non-recourse and limited-recourse, term, structured finance provides returns optimisation and financial flexibility on senior loans

> Access to established real estate investment team at Cheyne, which manages c$5bn AUM

> Access to pipeline of enhanced return investment opportunities identified by Cheyne

• Cheyne’s immediate pipeline of deals stands at £2.0bn with a WA LTV of 59% and unlevered IRR of 11.7%

> Robust mitigation against a rising rates environment

• A high yielding portfolio, combined with a short weighted average life of 2 years, ensures minimal exposure to yield widening and the ability to redeploy quickly at higher rates

• Strong pipeline of floating rate senior loans

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brianway23 · 11 months

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Real Estate Credit Investments: asset resilience, strong pipeline, 9% yield