My wife, 3 relatives on her side, 2 friends and 1 acquaintance.
Amazing that I have avoided infection, even when living in close proximity with my wife.
My personal trainer (who I see over video chat, so no exposure to me) is recovering from covid. Her 3 year old daughter caught it on an airplane the day that the mask mandate was lifted. My trainer and her wife caught it shortly thereafter. Their (slightly older, vaccinated) son did not, to everyone’s surprise. My trainer and her wife are both vaxxed and boosted, but it’s been a while, now.
The kid has recovered. Her wife is mostly better. My trainer is still home from the in-person part of her job, but assured me she had enough energy for my session today. She looked pretty bad, though.
About a month ago, my cousin and his wife tested positive. Probably brought home from school by the kids. It’s a particular worry because the younger daughter has serious kidney problems and is very vulnerable.
Anyway, they had mild symptoms for a little while and after a few weeks tested clear. They were remarking on how mild the effects were.
Well, about a month later the symptoms came crashing back hard, so hard that my cousin had to take his wife to the hospital. Both tested positive again. She is now home in bed with bad pneumonia and he had a serious sinus infection. They’re now worrying about long Covid repercussions.
Around us here everyone just wants to pretend it’s all over with and we are back to normal.
I don’t think I will feel comfortable taking public transportation for at least a couple more years. I got sick so often on the subway with colds, bronchitis, influenza, freaking hand foot and mouth disease. I do not ever want to get on a goddamn commuter train when crap like Covid is going around.
Freaking keep those dirty people (especially children) away from me.
My cousin came down with COVID at a Phish concert in Las Vegas on Halloween. He got it again last week at a Phish concert in New York. Both minor cases. What is notable is the amount of time before getting it a second time.
One of my gardening buddies is a flight attendant. She was working a flight when the end of the mask mandate was announced, and a significant number of people instantly ripped off their masks, including one guy in the front row who spent the entire six-hour flight coughing. She and a co-worker from that flight both now have their second cases of COVID.
The husband of the admin on my team at work, vaxxed and double-boosted, is now pretty sick with COVID, although not hospitalized. He had a high fever for more than a week, which just broke, but he still is coughing his lungs up full of gunk. My admin is trying to convince him to go to the doctor and get examined for pneumonia. Apparently he took a trip out of state and went out to a restaurant with some friends after being super careful for 2 years (my admin is asthmatic), and it seems likely that that was how he got infected. Meanwhile, he is still testing positive and hasn’t improved all that much, and I believe her local office HR (she works in another city - long story) was trying to tell her to come back to work, which strikes me as INSANE.
Every so often, I get stir-crazy and wonder whether going to a hybrid work schedule might not be so horrible, and then I think of how my asthmatic lungs would like it if I got COVID. I think I will continue to be a hermit for a while yet. Meanwhile, I may well skip the HS reunion for which I am on the committee - it’s planned for the end of July, and in spite of my exhortations a year ago that maybe we had better not assume we will be through the pandemic by then, no outdoor space was booked for the main event. I may well skip it and just go to the outdoor picnic the night before.
I am kind of disappointed in the one jerk from my class who is calling anyone who hasn’t bought their tickets yet “traitors.” Oh well, I’d rather have someone I don’t even remember calling me a traitor than potentially end up in the hospital, and it doesn’t strike me as particularly fun to pay for tickets to go inside in a loud room in an N95 with a bunch of people eating and drinking and hugging each other and not even be able to enjoy the refreshments that I have paid for.
My wife got COVID a month ago while I was out of Town. We distanced for a few days after I came home. She felt better after a week and we have been living pretty much as normal until this past Tuesday, when I started feeling ill and tested positive Wednesday. I have been pretty much in bed since that time.
My wife thinks it unlikely she would get it again so soon (we are both vaxed and boosted) but I am trying to convince her to distance.
One month? I guess it depends on whether you have a newer variant than she had. Too bad the US never sequences these things.
When we were on Oregon a couple weeks ago, meeting up with a group of friends, one of the group is VERY careful, and in fact only popped in for an hour, during which she and everyone else in the room remained masked on her behalf.
2 days later, she messaged us saying her husband woke up feeling bad, took a COVID test, and that it came back positive. Hers was negative.
A couple days later, she got sick as well.
So, most likely he caught it, and then gave it to her.
My husband and I both took several home tests (one of the other attendees actually brought some along to share, and we were going to visit an elderly relative a couple days later). Ours were negative, as were the ones we did after arriving home this week.
My boyfriend started feeling poorly two Saturdays ago. Tested positive the next day, felt (and looked) TERRIBLE, got a Paxlovid script two days later, felt much better within 3 days, but was still testing positive until early this week. Today is the first day he’s been out of isolation after testing neg for three days in a row.
We have a bathroom that opens to the hallway and to the bedroom so that’s where I delivered food/drink (masked) every day. He literally did not come out of the bedroom for about nine days, and until today he was masked, didn’t linger, and kept his hands to himself. I’m doing OK so think we made it. A little nervous about the next few days but we’ll see!
By the way, his work encouraged him to return while he was still testing positive. And he obviously got it from some other knucklehead who was also encouraged to return while still sick (I work from home and go basically nowhere and the very few times I do I’m in/out masked).
We are making it our job (well I guess now it’s just me) not to catch this.
I think the people in my circle who haven’t had it yet, still outnumber those who have. I wonder when or even if that will change. There was a time when I thought we’d all have gotten it by now.
Wifey, RN had a cancellation this morning, so she called another (new) patient who’s booked a month or so out to see if he’d like to be seen tomorrow. His wife/caregiver said they would have jumped at the chance, only the patient was exposed to COVID yesterday and ‘out of respect for [Wifey, RN]’ they have to decline.
I was supposed to babysit my 26 month old grand-nephew tonight but I just got a text that he tested positive for COVID, his mom thought he seemed a little congested and tested him out of an abundance of caution……and here we are.
I’m glad this disease generally doesn’t hit kids that hard, but I’m still a little concerned. I hope everything turns out OK.
Went to my nephew’s wedding two weeks ago - my brother (father of the groom) and his girlfriend both were down with Covid last week. Big wedding, those are the only two I’ve heard of (but I would likely only hear about my siblings and their offspring).
I am so sorry I never came back to update. I think I must have mentioned elsewhere how things were going. I started getting better in mid-December but here it is June now and I still haven’t fully recovered. I just don’t have the strength I had before. But it’s worse for my 17 year old son. His was considered mild at the time, but last month he was diagnosed with post-covid syndrome, AKA “long covid”. He has never really recovered. He sleeps a lot. He struggles to get up the stairs. The brain fog is so bad he failed half his classes and it’s no surprise. He will read something and have little recall of what he just read. He went through blood tests and chest X-rays and that sort of thing and other than covid all he had was mild anemia. Our state insurance just turned him down for post-covid rehab. We have an appointment next week to discuss alternative options.
Thanks for the update! I was really worried about you but kept stalking your profile and saw your return. Whew.
So sorry about your son. It’s going to be a lot of work for a lot of people to come together and identify and treat long covid. I think we’re going to be seeing more and more about it as time goes on. And people like your son are going to suffer. I feel so bad that you’re both going through this 
Best wishes to your family!
Damn, here’s wishing all the best for the young man’s struggle with the Long Cov, Rushgeekgirl.
Over the past month it has finally made its way through my sister’s household, beginning with one of her boys (both attend a local college so they live at home) then the next now her. Husband was back at his family’s place and sick all the previous week but it’s not clear if that was it.
Myself after having needed business travel to PR last week (where the recent uptick was still in full course) I was a bit under the weather late in the just past week but all my home tests negative – even though it’s not quite 3 months since my case, I’ve set up to get a PCR tomorrow to make sure.
FtGKid1 and family two weeks ago. We were over there early on but seem not to have picked it up.
(Yes, it has been a while.)
We have had several staff members test positive for COVID-19 during this school year. At least one had it TWICE. Thing is, they were all vaccinated, so the worst cases were 2 female teachers who had flu like symptoms for a week. A number of cases had no symptoms to speak of.
I’m fairly convinced we’re in the midst of a silent Omicron surge, mostly due to the prevalence of home test kits, and the corresponding underreporting of positive tests combined with the relaxation of mask restrictions in a lot of places.
I mean, my wife got it a couple of weeks ago, my brother-in-law got it (he lives in Austin), my wife’s uncle (Austin), and several other people we know have all got it in the past 3-4 weeks. Only one of those got reported (my wife), and that only because she’d gone to the doctor thinking she had something else. That’s more people I know catching it in a 3 week period than in any 3 month period during the rest of the pandemic. I know that’s anecdotal, but it’s sure weird.
What was odd about my wife getting it is that it presented as a sore throat and a bit of congestion, but not very severe. We weren’t sure if it was maybe strep throat, so when she went in to get tested for that, it ended up being COVID. It wasn’t very severe- the flu we both had in April was far worse she said. I’m a little amazed that I didn’t catch it- I slept next to her and was in close contact for the two days prior to being fully symptomatic, and didn’t get it that I could tell. Maybe I was asymptomatic? But I never even tested positive, and I tested myself several times during her 10 day isolation period.
I guess I’ll report in, too. I had a dry/slightly sore throat on Friday. Saturday, I was more tired than usual. I thought that might be because I skipped my morning coffee, so I wasn’t too concerned. I’m on a handful of meds that can cause a dry mouth, and I figured it could be related to a recent change. (Unfortunately, I spent Saturday running errands with a friend. Today appears to be day 1 for her, although she hasn’t tested positive yet.)
Saturday night I felt some chills, so I checked my temperature - 101ish. I had a bit of a cough, which was remarkable only because my throat was getting worse and it was probably irritating it.
Sunday morning I still was around 101, so I took a rapid test. I was a little surprised to see the second red line show up immediately.
I topped out at 102 Monday, so I took some Tylenol, and it went back down a bit. My doc called Tuesday to see how I was doing. She prescribed Benzonatate for the remnants of the cough, and a z-pack based on the ongoing fever. She believed it was likely a secondary infection at that point. A friend picked them up for me, and dropped them outside the front door.
I took the two-pill first dose, and one last dose of Tylenol before going to bed. Woke up this morning with no fever, and have maintained that all day!
Today is day 5 for me. Based on CDC guidelines, I should be able to put my KN95 mask on tomorrow, and restock my supplies. And start taking care of my friend.
I’ve definitely had worse sicknesses. Several cases of the flu were worse. I’ve had colds that were more annoying because of more coughing, or much more congestion/runny nose. I credit my two doses plus booster of Moderna for making this much less scary than when friends were sick in the early days.
(And for the other thread - yes, I likely know where I got it. I did basic contact tracing, and someone I had close contact with who had a lingering cough after getting over a cold but had consistently tested negative decided to retest based on my results…and he’s positive now.)