Our COVID-19 log

Written on 5/25/2022 and tagged: life, log, parenting

COVID-19 finally struck and this is how it went…

Order of events

Thursday, May 12^th, late afternoon: Will (10 years old) says he is really tired; we attribute it to a jogging contest thing he participated in at school earlier in the day.
Friday, May 13^th
1. Morning: Will falls asleep on the couch after breakfast, before school.
2. Early afternoon: The school’s nurse calls to say Will is very tired and nearly asleep in her office, …but, otherwise, has no symptoms….
3. After school: Sharon takes Will’s temperature and it reads 102° Fahrenheit. He’s given a rapid home test and it clearly shows he is COVID-19 positive. He immediately goes to his bedroom to isolate and everybody else puts on a mask.
4. Evening: Sharon and I
  - start texting people to let them know,
  - cancel all plans for the coming 7 - 10 days,
  - and make appointments to get PCR tests for everyone except Will.
Saturday, May 14^th
1. Morning: Everyone except Will goes to the local urgent care to take PCR tests.
2. General: We buckle down, keep Will isolated in his bedroom, and spend time in and around the house and yard. (This is the part of lockdown that I enjoy.)
3. Evening: Will starts to feel better.
Sunday, May 15^th
1. Morning: Jonathan (8 years old) tells us he’s feeling very tired.
2. Afternoon:
  - We take Jonathan’s temperature and it reads 103° Fahrenheit. We give him a rapid home test and it shows he is COVID-19 positive. He immediately goes to his bedroom to isolate.
  - Will feels 100%.
3. Evening:
  - We’re wondering if Saturday morning’s PCR test results are coming soon… hopefully… please?
  - Noah (6 years old) sleeps on our bedroom floor because he can’t spend the night in the same room as Jonathan.
Monday, May 16^th
1. Morning: Noah, Sharon, and I take rapid home tests. Despite showing zero symptoms, Noah is COVID-19 positive. Sharon and I are negative.
2. Late morning: Jonathan feels 100%.
3. Afternoon: Saturday morning’s PCR test results finally come in and they report that Noah, Jonathan, Sharon, and I are negative—or, we were negative back on Saturday morning. So … it’s useless information at this point in time.
Tuesday, May 17^th
1. Morning: Sharon and I take rapid home tests; we’re both negative again.
2. Evening: Sharon feels a bit achy and has a sore throat.
Wednesday, May 18^th
1. Morning: Sharon and I take yet another rapid home test and we’re negative again.
2. Early afternoon: Sharon visits CVS for a second PCR test due to still having a sore throat.
Thursday, May 19^th
1. Morning: Will goes back to school.
2. Evening: Sharon’s second PCR test result comes in: negative (but, she’s still feeling somewhat lousy).
Friday, May 20^th
- Morning: Sharon takes a fourth rapid home test: positive.
- Morning: I also take a fourth rapid home test: negative.
Saturday, May 21^st, morning: I take a fifth rapid home test: negative.
Sunday, May 22^nd, morning: I take a sixth rapid home test: negative.
Monday, May 23^rd
- Morning: I take a seventh rapid home test: negative.
- Morning: Jonathan and Noah go back to school.
Tuesday, May 24^th, morning: I take an eighth rapid home test: negative.
Wednesday, May 25^th, morning: I take a ninth rapid home test: negative.

General thoughts

The whole isolate the infected from the uninfected thing didn’t go that well after the evening of Sunday the 15^th. Whether it was kids forgetting to keep their mask on, or the daily who’s positive now surprise, or Sharon and I thinking screw this, lets just get it over with, we definitely didn’t isolate as well as we could’ve.
Despite testing positive on a rapid home test, Noah never had a fever, never showed any symptoms, and never said he was tired, achy, etc.
Sharon had to bail on what would’ve been a great work-related trip to Wisconsin; I know she was looking forward to that so much.
We missed a lot of baseball—both practices and games—and I’m a little sad about that.
I never felt lousy, showed any symptoms, or tested positive.