I plan on being as careful as I have been since March, until more is known.
COVID is now moving into my lungs. Sensations I have not had before. Oxygen level still fine. My doc has a special clinic that I can access if needed. Her practice is really on this. My mother’s lungs seem fine. Her assisted living is a disaster: 5 more residents (25 total?), 4 more staff, and 4 out of 6 administrators.
Friends are telling me stories of acquaintances who went through this and that is so helpful. I wish there was a forum for COVID patients!
Anecdotal, and sad. My nephew’s grandmother was in the hospital over Christmas with it. They sent her home, but she woke up very ill that night, went back to hospital, was found to have sepsis, and died the next day.
I read in the news many stories of second hospitalizations, so I am not surprised by that percent…
I heard from my brother last night that his mother-in-law died from the virus. She got it at a rehab facility. Seems like these places with large concentrations of seniors are death traps. She was well into her 90’s, so at least she got to live a full life. My sister-in-law was able to talk to her one last time yesterday morning via a video call. Still, sad that she couldn’t be with her in person at the end.
SO sorry to hear you are sick, compmom! Crossing fingers for a complete and swift recovery.
No one in my family has come down with it, knock wood. D2’s bf got sick with “a bad cold.” I insisted they both get tested. They both tested negative. There are possibilities of false negatives, though seems a little less likely for BF to test negative with active symptoms. That was a week ago today-BF recovered completely and D2 never had any symptoms whatsoever. We are staying far away from them until it has been 2 weeks since BF’s symptom onset. But even then, only if masked and distant.
D1’s SIL got it-approx 32 years old. Very mild course.
A good friend got it from her 26 y/o daughter. She considered the whole thing overblown beforehand, and now that she has had it and had only loss of taste for a couple of days, REALLY thinks it’s basically a nothing burger. She says “everyone should get this and just get it over with!!” I had a strong talk with her about that, and it seemed to make very little inroads with her, though she does acknowledge that people who are old and/or have severe underlying conditions are not who she is addressing when she says “everyone” should get it.
Med school lad feels such people should have to take a couple of days working in the Covid wards of hospitals - even if they only can do janitorial work or move bodies. His GF’s family member is the one now on a ventilator at age 31. That person is an EMT and likely caught it trying to help someone else.
I told her "But young people are getting this and dying. We don’t know who holds the “unlucky card”-it’s not just people with known underlying conditions!
Folks, my poor 94 year old mother is struggling more now, in her assisted living, with the overburdened staff unable to spend much time (nor should they be exposed) and not time to call me either. I get my scanty info from my mother, who has dementia and doesn’t understand what is going on.
I got surprising news on my portal this morning- test yesterday was negative! I am still sick but apparently it must be a cold. How the heck could I catch a cold with all these precautions? I drove to CVS to retest- there was only one slot available today in the entire county.
The coincidence of that massive exposure when driving my screaming, unmasked mother to the doctor on 12/30, when she tested positive the next day, with my being sick, was pretty convincing for me and my doc but so far looks like a cold! I can be really sure on Jan. 13th when 14 days are up but I am going with it and the relief for me is huge.
But hoping my mother’s suffering ends and she can resume doing jigsaw puzzles and pretend reading!
Thanks everyone. The administrators at my mother’s facility got vaccines yesterday. Th direct care staff in a few days. No comment. Residents at the end of the month, or at least that is what they are saying. Today they are testing every resident who so far has tested negative. This is the first time they have tested everyone at the same time.
My mother was a mess yesterday afternoon and could not walk, but called me at bedtime and sounded a lot better. She calls every night wanting to “be with me.” I tell her pretty soon. Dementia has its silver linings.
I am surprised I could pick up a different virus given my precautions. It makes one think: if I can pick up a cold, then I must be (not) doing something that could pick up COVID. Kind of a mystery. I’ll feel completely sure I am negative by Sunday.
My son in Beirut had a fever and felt horrible. He had a rapid test today and it was positive. His temperature is normal today, so I’m hoping he will be OK. His girlfriend also tested positive. I’m trying not to worry.
@MaineLonghorn so hard when they are far away, let alone in another country. Glad they are doing well so far. They may be asymptomatic- fingers crossed!
My FIL tested positive awhile back. Because he was never symptomatic, and because his wife never had symptoms, MIL insists he never really had it. Maybe, maybe not. But I appreciate the fact that their assisted living facility treated him as if he really had it. I imagine that is why they have been able to keep things under control as much as they have. If everyone would take the advice of medical experts regarding being careful of this virus, it might not be as rampant as it is. (Said by someone who has spent the last several days with people who don’t practice hand washing or social distancing, and who only wear masks when they HAVE to. I don’t really want another death in this family.)
My aunt spent time in the hospital after testing positive for COVID. She told my mom that she never had it, the positive test was a mistake.
One of my mom’s other sister and my uncle also have COVID. They posted pictures of their family Christmas. I couldn’t even like the pictures. One of the son in laws was exposed but took a rapid test that was negative and went to the family gathering. Infected my aunt and uncle. My cousin after her Christmas gathering, traveled to her in laws house possibly exposing them.
Apparently my aunt raged at the Chinese for bringing the virus.
Thanks for your good thoughts, everyone. My son said he and his girlfriend feel fine. They have been very careful so he needed to contact only two or three people to let them know about the positive test.
His temperature is normal today, so I’m hoping he will be OK. His girlfriend also tested positive. I’m trying not to worry.