Self-Isolation, Day Seven

Today I bought a box of 48 Creme Eggs from Amazon. It was either that or start eating Nutella straight from the jar, spoon optional.

I've been self-isolating for the past week after developing symptoms that were almost certainly covid-19, but we will never be sure of that because the UK isn't testing everyone with symptoms unless they're in certain groups or seriously ill and I have opinions on why that hasn't really been the best practice but we'll leave that for now. So for all of last week, I was slightly feverish, extremely fatigued, suffering from muscle aches, fatigued and, from about Friday, coughing. Today, all those symptoms bar the cough have vanished, but because I'm being a good plague vector I'm continuing to self-isolate for another several days at least. Also, I'm relatively certain that the whole of the UK is about to have its going-outside privileges revoked anyway, so it makes very little difference to me.

All of last week, it didn't really bother me if I had enough chocolatey goodness to keep me going, because (a) I did; and (b) I was too busy feeling as though I'd been hit by a truck to care much anyway. Seriously, for me, the fatigue part of covid-19 was by far the worst I've ever suffered from with any sort of virus or flu, and if I never experience that again I'll die happy. But now that I'm feeling better, and my supplies are dwindling, a little voice in the back of my head has started to panic, trying to urge me to go out - just to the corner shop - just to get chocolate bars and the like. And I have to say, I'm quite disappointed in myself. Do I really have so little willpower that I'm starting to go stir-crazy over lack of chocolate?

Apparently yes.

At least 48 Creme Eggs will last me for a while. And I have a perfectly normal (albeit slightly larger than usual) online shopping order from Tesco's coming tonight, which should contain two Chocolate Oranges and two large bars of Dairy Milk - that is, unless they've been substituted for something else. With all the panic buying going on, I can't be sure I'll receive anything that was on my list - "You ordered one loaf of bread. We've substituted that with one slice of bread. You ordered one dozen eggs. We've substituted that with a feather and a picture of an egg."