Post by jonbo on Dec 17, 2020 18:11:31 GMT -6
Welp! We have Covid in our house. Regina has it. She started showing symptoms on Sunday evening. Monday, she tested positive. A little while later I got my test and was negative. We immediately quarantined at home. I still have no symptoms. Her symptoms have been a general sense of coming down with something. That's it. Today, just now, we were laughing together over the phone.
Luckily for this Covid living situation, I guess, we have a big long house. She's at one end in a kind of natural apartment. She keeps the door shut. I bring her food and set it on a little table at the door, and text her to come out and get it. This makes her happy and satisfied that we're doing all we can to keep me safe. Me, I wake up in the middle of the night in the room I'm sleeping in. The central air has been running all night because our unit is slightly too small for the house and on a cold evening it barely shuts off at all. Anyway, I wake up with it running and go, "This physical separation isn't accomplishing anything at all." Well, actually it is. It satisfies her and I'm not going to disabuse her of the notion. It would just upset her. So, shh, don't tell her anything.
I haven't got it, yet. We think that she contracted it last week, she along with several others we work with. It rained a couple of days and about 7 or 8 of us gathered up at the office. I think we all went out to lunch, too. I, along with some of the others, I know, am pretty careful as I go about my business and wear a mask whenever I'm around people indoors. Except there at the office, we didn't. As a pest control man who goes in and out of a lot of places and sees many people, I've noticed that no one in the offices I go to wears a mask. I do as I go around. I want to behave responsibly and professionally. But there at our office we behaved just like the folks at the other offices, as though we were a nuclear family or something. None of us wore masks and we didn't particularly distance. On Friday evening, I think, one of our members started developing symptoms. Sunday evening, Regina and 3 others started getting sick. My guess is that the one who got sick first was pre-symptomatic while we were gathered at the office and, not knowing he had Covid, gave it to the rest.
Now this is where we are now: None of those in our office who got sick have had very severe symptoms, yet. We haven't had the disastrous experience of one well-known member of our community who has died from it, nor of another who had to be intubated for weeks and has semi-recovered. He's still extremely weak about 4 months later. Then there's several others, like myself, who haven't gotten sick at all, yet. It's a really weird disease, it seems. I now know quite a bunch of folks who have gotten it and recovered, really no worse than a flu or bad cold, then a few who haven't recovered well or at all. One thing I believe now, it's pretty doggoned contagious. I think, although I'm not sure, that the two I know of who were most horribly affected were diabetic.
One other thing for whoever might want to know. Regina and I have both been pounding the Vitamin D and the zinc for weeks if not months. I don't know if that has anything to do with the relatively mild effects it's had on us (her having a mild case, me escaping it (so far)), or not. They've also prescribed for her some kind of steroid and antibiotic that I know of. Anyhow, besides being inconvenienced, we're doing okay at this point.
Luckily for this Covid living situation, I guess, we have a big long house. She's at one end in a kind of natural apartment. She keeps the door shut. I bring her food and set it on a little table at the door, and text her to come out and get it. This makes her happy and satisfied that we're doing all we can to keep me safe. Me, I wake up in the middle of the night in the room I'm sleeping in. The central air has been running all night because our unit is slightly too small for the house and on a cold evening it barely shuts off at all. Anyway, I wake up with it running and go, "This physical separation isn't accomplishing anything at all." Well, actually it is. It satisfies her and I'm not going to disabuse her of the notion. It would just upset her. So, shh, don't tell her anything.
I haven't got it, yet. We think that she contracted it last week, she along with several others we work with. It rained a couple of days and about 7 or 8 of us gathered up at the office. I think we all went out to lunch, too. I, along with some of the others, I know, am pretty careful as I go about my business and wear a mask whenever I'm around people indoors. Except there at the office, we didn't. As a pest control man who goes in and out of a lot of places and sees many people, I've noticed that no one in the offices I go to wears a mask. I do as I go around. I want to behave responsibly and professionally. But there at our office we behaved just like the folks at the other offices, as though we were a nuclear family or something. None of us wore masks and we didn't particularly distance. On Friday evening, I think, one of our members started developing symptoms. Sunday evening, Regina and 3 others started getting sick. My guess is that the one who got sick first was pre-symptomatic while we were gathered at the office and, not knowing he had Covid, gave it to the rest.
Now this is where we are now: None of those in our office who got sick have had very severe symptoms, yet. We haven't had the disastrous experience of one well-known member of our community who has died from it, nor of another who had to be intubated for weeks and has semi-recovered. He's still extremely weak about 4 months later. Then there's several others, like myself, who haven't gotten sick at all, yet. It's a really weird disease, it seems. I now know quite a bunch of folks who have gotten it and recovered, really no worse than a flu or bad cold, then a few who haven't recovered well or at all. One thing I believe now, it's pretty doggoned contagious. I think, although I'm not sure, that the two I know of who were most horribly affected were diabetic.
One other thing for whoever might want to know. Regina and I have both been pounding the Vitamin D and the zinc for weeks if not months. I don't know if that has anything to do with the relatively mild effects it's had on us (her having a mild case, me escaping it (so far)), or not. They've also prescribed for her some kind of steroid and antibiotic that I know of. Anyhow, besides being inconvenienced, we're doing okay at this point.
And yes, I already told him in person I was sorry for his loss.
