re: 16 August a day to remember ....

Welcome back man. Glad you're doing better. I had Covid myself - I remember the day I lost my taste/smell (May 29, 2020). Then I basically had symptoms throughout the entirety of June and was better by July 4th. I had a couple weeks with breathing issues that made it really hard to sleep, and I'm an otherwise healthy young man (32 years old at the time, 5'11", 170 lbs).

I wouldn't wish it on anyone because you just don't know what it'll do to you. Still not sure the smell in my left nostril is 100%... for the longest time I'd cover the right one and try to smell with just the left and when I opened back up the right the smell would rush in... haven't tried that in awhile. Sometimes I still feel like I can't catch a full "satisfying" breath. Who knows what it did to my body long term. I've heard of it causing the heart to swell or something?