Latest testing scare with my niece. Well, this time she tested positive. The symptoms seem not too bad this time. She’s quarantined to her bedroom at my brother’s place.
Nephew, recovered; not a bad case. Farmers’ market vendor, out this week due to being in isolation, not seriously ill I presume as she hopes to be at market next week. Most of my neighbors’ family, at one time or another over the past year. Probably a whole lot of my other neighbors, most of whom (Old Order Mennonites) would I think be unlikely to get tested unless requiring hospitalization, and at least one of whom I know had symptoms. A brief recent scare with my brother-in-law, who appears to have something else entirely and to be getting over it.
Not sure whether to be terrified about so many cases, or relieved because so many of the ones I know about have recovered – that is, I’m relieved that the individuals recovered, but am dubious that this means much about the overall chances of anybody (me included) who may catch it in the future.
My sister just called. She and my nephew/niece have had COVID for a couple of days.
Well, finally my turn in the barrel. It’s still day one, but symptoms seem to be easing. Hit me moderately hard in the afternoon, out of nowhere. Nausea, body pains, general fatigue. I thought it may have been food poisoning, as that’s the same symptoms I’ve gotten the two times I had food poisoning. Had to cut a job short today, stayed at a hotel because I didn’t think I was gonna make it home. Fever of 102, though now it’s 99 without any fever reducers. Covid self test came out with a glowing red line that eliminated any ambiguity. Smell and taste are fine. No other real symptoms. Appetite came back. I feel much better than eight hours ago. If this continues, that will have been the most violently quick onset and easing of symptoms I’ve ever had.
Well, seems I got lucky. Almost 24 hours later and I’m pretty much back to normal. No issues with taste or smell, thankfully. But it hit fairly hard when it hit.
Started feeling like I was getting cold yesterday. Tested myself today.
Positive. Crap.
Must have picked it up at a store sometime around Wed. despite wearing a mask.
Mrs. FtG is very high risk. There’s no way to avoid contact with her. Double crap.
A buddy of mine just tested positive after the cook on his fishing trip tested positive 2 days out. Pretty much the whole boat tested that way. He is showing no symptoms, and is vaxxed & boosted. Hopefully he will test negative by the 4th.
And … she’s got it. Thankfully I’m doing fairly good now so I can help her. But it’s compounding her health issues. Triple crap.
Oh dear. I hope she has a mild case and has a quick recovery.
I’m so sorry.
So after more than two years of successfully avoiding it, I finally caught Covid despite being fully vaccinated and double-boosted (three Pfizer and one Moderna).
I was concerned about being around a group of Scouts and parents last weekend on a hiking trip I took to New Hampshire, so I started testing myself as a precaution when I got back. I was negative for Covid on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. But last night as I left work I started feeling a little off so I took a third test and it was positive.
I immediately went to an urgent care center last night and was prescribed one of the new antiviral medications (Paxlovid). (I have asthma, hypertension, and some cardiac issues.) I got it filled at a 24-hour pharmacy and took the first dose in the parking lot.
The doctor there also said I need to quarantine for at least the next five (5) days, which I believe is also the CDC guidance.
I really don’t want my wife (actually soon to be ex-wife but that is a different story) to come down with it, so last night I rigged up one of the bedrooms as an isolation ward. I closed off all the vents for the central air conditioning in the room and installed a window A/C unit for the room because it’s supposed to be a scorcher this weekend. If I leave this room I’m wearing a KN95 mask. I’m eating meals outside on the front porch or back patio. Fortunately my adult son is on a road trip out west until after the 4th of July.
Also fortunately my symptoms appear to be fairly mild so far. The worst to date has been a persistent cough, nasal congestion, and mild fever (99 degrees). But I’m only on day 1 of symptoms.
Fingers crossed that: (1) my wife and son don’t also get it, (2) it doesn’t get any worse for me, (3) I don’t get a rebound after the course of Paxlovid, and (4) last but not least, I don’t get long Covid.
Now it’s my turn. Oh bother. Pretty much the same story as @robby just above.
Felt slightly sore throat on Fri noonish. I was at work but would be home that night. No biggie. By midnight when my shift ended, I still felt fine other than the mild sore throat. But I had been a little bit brain-addled / fuzzy at times; just a bit mentally scattered. Otherwise, no symptoms.
Slept normally, got up Sat still with the same very mild sore throat. I’d done a lot of talking on Fri, so the throat didn’t trigger much concern. About noonish I got that “Uh oh, I’m getting sick” feeling.
Over about an hour my cheekbone sinuses filled up, my overall head felt full & slightly achy, and I began to have slight overall body ache and lethargy. Forehead thermometer says first 99.8 then later around dinner time 100.4. Spent the afternoon / evening mostly in my chair. More lazy than debilitated.
Took a COVID test pre-bedtime. Positive. The line wasn’t bright & thick, but it was clear & unmistakable.
Now on Sun afternoon ~30 hours after the first non-throat symptoms it’s more of the same. Sinuses full, lethargy, & very mild body aches. I’ve set up temporary living in one part of the house & wife has the other part. I’m hanging out outdoors on the patio as much as possible. Per CDC I’ll be isolating from her at home through Thu and if done w fever & symptoms, start going back out on Fri but only as minimally necessary and with a mask. I’ll probably be off work most of the rest of July; they really don’t want us spreading plague amongst our cow-orkers.
I’m double vaxed and boosted. All Moderna. I’m pretty sure this is my virgin infection. With luck it’ll stay mild. It certainly isn’t showing signs of exponential growth. Yet.
Had to happen sometime. I’m frankly a bit surprised with my job it didn’t happen a long time ago.
Might be time for a nap. More from boredom than sleepiness.
One of my attorneys, with whom I had contact last week, just emailed me from home to say he tested positive for Covid. I didn’t have much contact though, last week - I just sit somewhere near his office, and didn’t really go in his office to chat or anything. In addition, I was out of the office on Friday to go to a doctor’s appointment.
So hopefully he didn’t give it to me. I’m quadruple-vaxxed anyway.
I think I’ve finally lost count of the number of people I know who have had it. Of the people I’m sure I know well enough that I would know if they’d had it, I think it’s still less than half who have. And my parents, my husband, my closest friends, and I have all been spared so far. But the newest subvariant is gaining ground, so who knows how long that will remain true.
Yeah. A lot of my neighbors; everybody at the vet’s office (not all that long after they took off masks and started letting everybody in; glad I wore my mask inside even though nobody else was. They were closed for a week or so and then back to dropoff only till everybody’s testing clear); some good friends and family members. I feel rather lucky, while I know at least three friends-of-friends who died everybody I know well has had relatively mild cases.
Of course that’s so far. This is turning into a continuous slow-motion disaster, who knows where it’s going.
So, after all this, 2 of 3 live-in family members caught it from me (somehow, my 6-yr-old daughter dodged it), and my close contacts the day I tested positive and the two days before – no masks, indoors, very close proximity as in talking for much of the day across from each other – all managed to avoid it, too, so I’m happy for that. So far as I know, only my wife and one kid caught it from me, and it was fairly mild for them.
There has been a definite uptick at work. There was a big Omicron wave starting in December. I was in that wave. There was a lull for several months. The last few weeks its been hitting people again. 5 or 6 different peopl, all on different shifts with little or no contact with each other. They likely didn’t get it from each other.
And now another of my bosses has it. So that’s three people total in the last two weeks who work in my vicinity. I suppose it’s just a matter of time until I get it.
I feel like this thing is closing in on us again.
One of my book club friends has it, and now so does her husband. She and I had lunch together a week ago Saturday, that is 11 days ago. I’ve tested negative twice since then, and I don’t have any symptoms. I’m still a little antsy.
Also my next door neighbor has it, and now so does her husband. She was going to come by and see me last Thursday when my Sweetie-dog died, but she didn’t get around to it. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because she got very sick over the weekend. She had the monoclonal antibody infusion today.
She texted me a little while ago: “The ER dr told me this variant is super contagious. They are seeing many people who are fully vaccinated in the ER. She told me to mask up at work and in public and consider curb side shopping given my health issues.”
I’m sure that somewhere in one of these threads there’s a discussion of this topic, but I’m not going to dig it out.
If people at your workplace test positive and stay at home, how does the workplace handle informing their co-workers, if at all? Do they leave it up to the sick person to let their co-workers know, or is the company obligated to let workers (at least the ones in the immediate vicinity) know?
I mentioned several people above who tested positive and stayed home. A young man who sits very close to me (three feet away but behind a plexiglass barrier) has stayed home for two days now, and I know nothing. I emailed our HR person to ask if there was anything for me to worry about, and I got a slightly snippy reply saying that she had nothing to tell me.