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Thread: Our family& #39;s Carona virus journey: I debated about posting this at all, because honestly, this site is awful and all sorts of people will probably use it in all sorts of ways that I don& #39;t intend, but I decided to because 1) it may help some people, and 2) it& #39;s documentary
Last week, I think on Thursday, my oldest son& #39;s (17 year old boy, or male 17 or m17 as I& #39;ll use on this thread for simplicity) school abruptly announced a shut down of in person teaching and sports for 2 weeks due to a couple teachers and a few students testing positive.
Ironically, I don& #39;t think there is any connection of this outbreak to our family, except that my son plays football there (but does not otherwise attend, as he& #39;s taking online courses at the community college this year).
The reason I mention it is that it shut down his football team until early October, which was fortuitous for us, as he became symptomatic on Thursday of last week. He thinks he probably got it at a gathering of friends on Tuesday night.
As I mentioned, he became symptomatic on Thursday, but his symptoms were extremely mild, less than a common cold, as he said, and by Friday morning he was feeling fine, so we almost didn& #39;t get him tested, but we did out of any abundance of caution on Friday morning.
We rode together and were in the car together for over an hour, him a few feet from me, but we both assumed he didn& #39;t have it since it was less than 24 hours of minor sickness (a little congestion, a little coughing, a little tired, and that& #39;s it. As I said, very minor.)
Since I was with him and had been exposed to him and had to drive him there since he& #39;s a minor, I figured I& #39;d get tested as well. We decided to get my wife out of the house on Saturday since she& #39;s in the early stages of pregnancy. So she goes to my partner& #39;s beach condo.
On Sunday, I& #39;m with the four kids at home, my wife is having a great time at the beach condo with her mom and sister, and life is good, except that our 7 year old daughter isn& #39;t feeling great.
By late afternoon, she said it was tiring walking up and down the stairs, and she didn& #39;t feel good, and she was cold. OK, here we go. My wife is in the early stages of pregnancy. Also late Sunday afternoon, we get our tests back. I& #39;m negative, m17 is positive.
Now we& #39;re at a decision point. We have two kids who are likely sick, two who are perfectly fine, and me, also fine, all in a house together. We decided to get my wife& #39;s mom and sister out of the condo and send the fine kids there, and keep the sick ones with me, here.
Sunday evening, f7 is exhausted, has been laying on the couch most of the day, and ends up throwing up on the floor. I& #39;m cleaning her throw up and resigned to getting COVID, being that I& #39;m at home with the sick ones. It& #39;s easy enough to isolate a 17 yo in his room. Not a 7 yo.
Monday morning, f7 is fine. Like she was never sick. Like m17, it was one day of sickness, though hers was more severe than his. We all get tested on Monday morning. I take f7, and my wife takes m10 and f5.
Also on Monday morning, the Department of Health calls to do contract tracing with my son and tells him he needs to stay home for the next 10 days. GTFO with your "Florida doesn& #39;t take COVID seriously takes". Free testing and immediate contact tracing after a positive result.
Anyways, by Monday, all of us in the sick house are fine. On Tuesday we find out that f7 has COVID, as expected, but surprisingly, neither I nor m10 have it.
Now understand, when m17 got it, we didn& #39;t think it was much of anything. We almost didn& #39;t get him tested. But we did have him stay mostly in his room. By Sunday, when he was fine for the second day, and I got my negative test, we got a little lax with him.
I resigned myself to getting it, having been in a car for over an hour with him, the morning after he was symptomatic, and her, the morning after she was. Also, I couldn& #39;t just lock my 7 yo in her room. I was around her. Hugged her. I tried to mostly stay away, but not completely
So yesterday, wife becomes symptomatic. Most of our efforts up to this point had been to try to keep her from getting it. Her main symptom is just exhaustion. Nothing else really. But after taking a nap, she felt better. She feels pretty good today. A bit tired, but no biggie.
(We also got contact tracing calls for f7 and her today, for the record.) We also find out that her mom and sister& #39;s family are positive. Not sure if they caught it from our son (we all got together the evening before he became symptomatic) or her.
