10 Things I Learned After Getting COVID-19

Shannon Cheesman
8 min readJan 25, 2021

I am now a statistic. On Jan. 3, 2021 (just a few days after we officially closed the chapter on 2020), I became ill and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. The new year was not going to be kind to me, I discovered. Instead, I was about to get a crash course in experiencing COVID-19. Here is what I learned after testing positive…

#1 — The symptoms hit FAST

I remember waking up in the morning feeling like I might be coming down with something, and within just a few hours, it was hitting me like a freight…

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Shannon Cheesman

I’m a marketing copywriter with a background in TV news. I’ve written everything from blogs to breaking news stories (and everything in between) in my career.