Depending on what you're posting, here are a few ways to frame it: The "Raw & Unfiltered" Approach
We are the ones watching the shadows shift on the wall, listening to the rhythmic breathing of the people in the next room who are lucky enough to be unconscious. i wrote this at 4am sick with covid
The Fever Dream Diaries: What I Wrote at 4 AM While Positive for COVID Depending on what you're posting, here are a
I don’t know you. But at this precise, frozen moment in the night, we are the same. Your throat hurts? Mine too. You just coughed so hard you saw a brief flash of your ancestors? Welcome to the club. You’re wondering if the third rapid test you took was a false negative, or if this is just the new variant that feels like a hangover from a wedding you never attended? I’m right there with you. Your throat hurts
The 4 AM COVID diary is not literature. It is a primal scream. Your sentences run long, then staccato. You misspell words. You forget punctuation. And none of it matters, because the only reader is the person you become when the sun comes up—a person who might delete this whole document out of embarrassment.
Track your symptoms and temperature. If you have a pulse oximeter, use it to monitor your oxygen levels.
Bring a full water bottle back to bed. You will not get up again.