I’ve heard if we are careful we’ll get through this. And it’s true we do need to be careful. But I kind of took it as if you get sick means you weren’t careful when all it takes is one person coughing on you as you buy groceries. There is a lot of unacknowledged luck involved. And typically we catch a lot of viruses, so my odds are not great.
I saw the bra mask tutorials too, and was kind of laughing at how much of my face my G cup bra would cover and didn't really give it a second thought. When I saw AJL post her masks, and saw how much they cover, I started giving it a second thought.
I also went down a rabbit hole reading about citric acid (also zinc and copper) as an antiviral. It was pretty interesting.
Oh no!! I was cleaning out the junk drawer during another endless call and I found some little packs from a science experiment or something and totally threw them out! Working from home might literally kill me 🤪
Post by pinkballoons on Mar 31, 2020 20:56:03 GMT -5
This weekend, I told DH to text our house cleaners that we’re skipping the cleaning, but we’ll still pay them for the week. I don’t have their number, or I would have taken care of it. Apparently he just asked if they were still planning to come tomorrow. I just had to explain — again — why we were just going to pay them but have them skip the house and ask him to send a more specific text. He’s now pouting that we have to clean our own house.
This weekend, I told DH to text our house cleaners that we’re skipping the cleaning, but we’ll still pay them for the week. I don’t have their number, or I would have taken care of it. Apparently he just asked if they were still planning to come tomorrow. I just had to explain — again — why we were just going to pay them but have them skip the house and ask him to send a more specific text. He’s now pouting that we have to clean our own house.
Not gonna lie, I was not excited this past weekend about scrubbing a toilet for the first time in almost 5 years, lol.
This weekend, I told DH to text our house cleaners that we’re skipping the cleaning, but we’ll still pay them for the week. I don’t have their number, or I would have taken care of it. Apparently he just asked if they were still planning to come tomorrow. I just had to explain — again — why we were just going to pay them but have them skip the house and ask him to send a more specific text. He’s now pouting that we have to clean our own house.
Not gonna lie, I was not excited this past weekend about scrubbing a toilet for the first time in almost 5 years, lol.
lol. I had to buy a broom because our cleaners bring their own and ours somehow got relegated to the garage long ago.
I am frustrated and can’t figure out how to clearly express myself
Positive cases are just starting to reach my area. So many people are basically making testing positive a moral failure. If we had all just been better at social distancing...
But a lot of people still have to work. I haven’t grocery shopped in two weeks but I really have to go soon. My husband had to stop for dog food because Amazon is so slowed down and we had none left- I’ve bought it. It’s shipped. We just don’t know when it will come.
It was always the case that a lot of us were going to get sick; isn’t the point just slowing it down? I just... can’t deal with the moral outrage against everyone who has it so far when it could very well be me in two weeks
I’m not in total denial or anything. This is freaking scary but... people are acting like this was going to magically somehow skip our town
I have seen stuff like this too. When we had the first death of a "younger" person, someone who knew him posted a list of his facebook checkins..I guess so people could be aware if they were in the same place at the same time. There was so much judgment of how he had been passing it around...this was all basically during the week of 3/9. I mean that week kids were still in school and we were just basically being told that we needed to be super vigilant about handwashing and not told to restrict what were doing at all. It made me feel really sad that he was being talked about like that when he probably just wasn't even fully aware - I mean I wasn't. I sent my kids to school that week, I got a hair cut, volunteered at their school...etc.
Post by sofamonkey on Mar 31, 2020 22:15:37 GMT -5
My lab results finally came back. Negative.
I’m somewhere between relieved, angry, and confused. I cannot understand how it’s negative but I get completely winded & worn out SO easily! I haven’t felt well in about a month!! I honestly don’t know how to feel right now. I’m more upset than I thought I’d be.
I am frustrated and can’t figure out how to clearly express myself
Positive cases are just starting to reach my area. So many people are basically making testing positive a moral failure. If we had all just been better at social distancing...
I'm seeing quite a bit of this, too. Along with people who don't want to talk about testing positive for that exact reason.
Unfortunately, we have quite a few cases in a nursing home here. It seems to have started with 2 staff members. They were asymptomatic on Friday when they worked, but had symptoms on Monday. Stayed home, and tested positive. It spread to residents (and I'm assuming other staff members). The comments are absolutely awful. I can't imagine how absolutely heartbroken those employees are to be at the start of the spread...but there's no way they would have known. The positives started coming a week ago, so two weeks before that, COVID19 was not even identified in our county, and no community acquired cases were known in our entire state.
I’m somewhere between relieved, angry, and confused. I cannot understand how it’s negative but I get completely winded & worn out SO easily! I haven’t felt well in about a month!! I honestly don’t know how to feel right now. I’m more upset than I thought I’d be.
My sister is an ER doc. She said the test is only about 60% accurate on the negative side. So if it comes back Begay, there’s a 40% chance you have it. This is due to required viral load, human error in doing the swab, etc. Also, it’s VERY possible that you didn’t have the viral load when tested, but it took so long to be processed that if tested today it would come back positive.
I’m somewhere between relieved, angry, and confused. I cannot understand how it’s negative but I get completely winded & worn out SO easily! I haven’t felt well in about a month!! I honestly don’t know how to feel right now. I’m more upset than I thought I’d be.
It could be a false negative but you also may just have standard bronchitis or walking pneumonia. I mean, there are lots of other viruses and infections that cause the same symptoms that are going around this time of year (and really more prevalent in most areas) than Covid at this point. If you look at the percentage of the population with Covid-19, even in hot spots, it’s actually very small (which is good!)
sofamonkey, another possibility of the false negative... my coworker’s exwife was tested almost two weeks ago. Still no results. Ended up at the ER earlier this week, and was told that if the swans sit around too long, the virus could die, so even if it was on the swab, it may still be negative because it wasn’t run in time. WTF?!
Thanks. I’m just. I don’t even know how to process this. I went from “what if I die” to “am I just lazy?” And it’s a total mindfuck. My doc is very sweet though, and that’s been helpful. I’ve had pneumonia before, and it was nothing like this. Ugh. I’m just frustrated and tired of feeling like shit.
Thanks. I’m just. I don’t even know how to process this. I went from “what if I die” to “am I just lazy?” And it’s a total mindfuck. My doc is very sweet though, and that’s been helpful. I’ve had pneumonia before, and it was nothing like this. Ugh. I’m just frustrated and tired of feeling like shit.
I hope you turn the corner soon! I can see how this is all overwhelmingly confusing from am emotional perspective. I think it's OK to acknowledge you've been sick with something, even if you're never sure what it was.
I started watching Lego Masters and I'm hooked. I never was into legos, but now I want to get some.
We have been watching all season because it is on right after the Masked Singer. I wasn't expecting much from the show, but I have been sucked in! It is AMAZING.