Crawling out of Covid's Black Hole
I am all better now! But the month of November was just an awful, Covid-filled blur for me and my family.
It all started on Friday, November 6, when my teenage son came home from hockey practice with a fever and sore throat. We took him in for a Covid test, then quarantined him in his room, sterilized common touch points, began wearing our masks around the house, etc. He was only sick for about 3 or 4 days, but the damage had been done. His test result came back positive, and a few days later I came down with it.
I had a 100+ degree fever that lasted over TWO WEEKS, tightness in my chest, cough, runny nose, loss of smell/taste. Nothing serious enough to require a doctor's visit, but for several days, I couldn't even get out of bed. Then, despite quarantining myself, my husband caught it as well, although his case was a relatively mild one like our son's.
Needless to say, Thanksgiving was ruined. My extended family had decided back in October to cancel Thanksgiving (and Christmas, too) so as not to run the risk of exposing my elderly parents to the virus, but I had still planned to do something special for my immediate family. Instead, my two older sons spent Thanksgiving alone in their college apartments, while we ate some pre-made subs grabbed from Walmart for our "Thanksgiving dinner."
Thankfully, everyone is now mostly recovered. For a while, I had issues with a lingering cough and fatigue, but I've spent the last couple days putting up Christmas decorations and felt good.
This should probably be the point where I give an ending spiel advising everyone to wear masks, social distance, wash hands, etc. And you should! BUT, we did all those things. We've been doing all those things DILIGENTLY since March. Literally the ONLY places my son had been the two weeks prior to getting sick were school and hockey practice, both places where everyone is masked up and taking extraordinary precautions. And we STILL caught it. All it took was one opening somewhere, and it can happen no matter how careful you are.
So please, PLEASE, do all you can to isolate yourself until there is a vaccine available. Especially if you or anyone close to you has underlying health conditions. I am an active, healthy, middle-aged (*cough*) woman, and this thing still knocked me on my ass.
Here's to a making the Christmas season is a merry one, despite the lack of "celebrating." :)
It all started on Friday, November 6, when my teenage son came home from hockey practice with a fever and sore throat. We took him in for a Covid test, then quarantined him in his room, sterilized common touch points, began wearing our masks around the house, etc. He was only sick for about 3 or 4 days, but the damage had been done. His test result came back positive, and a few days later I came down with it.
I had a 100+ degree fever that lasted over TWO WEEKS, tightness in my chest, cough, runny nose, loss of smell/taste. Nothing serious enough to require a doctor's visit, but for several days, I couldn't even get out of bed. Then, despite quarantining myself, my husband caught it as well, although his case was a relatively mild one like our son's.
Needless to say, Thanksgiving was ruined. My extended family had decided back in October to cancel Thanksgiving (and Christmas, too) so as not to run the risk of exposing my elderly parents to the virus, but I had still planned to do something special for my immediate family. Instead, my two older sons spent Thanksgiving alone in their college apartments, while we ate some pre-made subs grabbed from Walmart for our "Thanksgiving dinner."
Thankfully, everyone is now mostly recovered. For a while, I had issues with a lingering cough and fatigue, but I've spent the last couple days putting up Christmas decorations and felt good.
This should probably be the point where I give an ending spiel advising everyone to wear masks, social distance, wash hands, etc. And you should! BUT, we did all those things. We've been doing all those things DILIGENTLY since March. Literally the ONLY places my son had been the two weeks prior to getting sick were school and hockey practice, both places where everyone is masked up and taking extraordinary precautions. And we STILL caught it. All it took was one opening somewhere, and it can happen no matter how careful you are.
So please, PLEASE, do all you can to isolate yourself until there is a vaccine available. Especially if you or anyone close to you has underlying health conditions. I am an active, healthy, middle-aged (*cough*) woman, and this thing still knocked me on my ass.
Here's to a making the Christmas season is a merry one, despite the lack of "celebrating." :)