Whirlwind of a week....
Mike got a positive result on a rapid test that Saturday morning. The line was very faint, but I insisted that I was the pro from years of reading pregnancy tests. A line is a line, any line is showing that you have virus in your system...
The next few hours were a whirlwind of deciding what to do. Mike contact tracing, calling anyone he had been with at work for the past few days. Us deciding who to test next and how.
Rapid tests have been missing from store shelves for weeks now. It seems impossible to find them anywhere. School sent home one box (2 test) per child in the days before winter break ended (shout out to VTrans for getting that done!), but we used those, as requested, to test the kids after break before they went back to school. The state also recently let us sign up to get 2 boxes free online, so we had those in the house.
Because the rest of us were asymptomatic, I took the boys skiing on Sunday, followed by a PCR test. It was MLK weekend, so kids and I didn't have to be back in school until Wednesday morning, so we had some time. We all layed low on Monday/Tuesday.
Sunday night I had a sore throat, and was sure this was it. Monday I felt pretty tired and out of it, slightly runny nose, lots of stomach cramps. I was sure I'd test positive. My symptoms were pretty cleared up by Tuesday, except for stomach cramps which would last the rest of the week.
All our pcr were negative, as was my rapid! But our two youngest kiddos came back with a VERY faint line on their rapid Tuesday night, so we decided not to send them to school. I was shocked that I was negative, but since I felt fine by Wednesday morning, and after consulting with the school nurse, I went to school Wednesday.
Our local doctor's office gave Mike another box of rapid tests, and this time his came back with a bright red line! We would rapid test the kids and I again on Thursday, with the same results (two youngest kids with VERY faint lines, oldest child and I both negative).
I sit writing this week in review on Friday, January 21st. Besides just our family, I really need to write more about school and my students, and the unprecedented crisis schools/youths are facing right now. But for now, I will say I am off to get one more PCR test, and heading home today with a handful more boxes from my school nurse to keep swabbing myself over the weekend! Fingers crossed it keeps coming up negative?!
We at least got a big snow storm Monday (but none of us could ski/ride bc of quarantine, super sad face) but we DID get out for some sledding at least...
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