Getting COVID 3 times.
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@jolly said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
@aqua-letifer said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
The worst part about this shit are the ups and downs. Last night was scary. Bad O2 numbers, bad fever. As of this second, though, our daughter is 98% O2, 99 fever.
But what will tonight be like? This illness just never fucking ends. And who knows, maybe my wife will take a turn for the worse, too. Here's hoping not, but it seems to be an incredibly long haul with many ups and downs.
Kids get sick fast, but they get well fast, too. I know it seems like an eternity, but hang in there.
What others have said, hang in there. Hopefully kiddo’s fever broke and she back on the fast track to raising hell.
You haven’t been a parent until the little one hands you a raging fever and all that comes with it that scares the living daylights out of you. I know my mother always said she was never too concerned or worried until the mercury in the thermometer hit 104.
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Just reading this thread now, I’m always late to the party
Best wishes for recovery soon.
Did they get sequenced for omicron?
Doing it here now for every positive pcr.
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@bachophile said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
Just reading this thread now, I’m always late to the party
Best wishes for recovery soon.
Did they get sequenced for omicron?
Doing it here now for every positive pcr.
They're not even allowed to see their own docs, or any doc for that matter, until they have really shitty O2 or temps. So, no way to know, we're on our own.
I'd say odds of Omicron are ??? at this point. I'd say very low, both due to its status in our state right now, and me: we hung out together a LOT. If it was Omicron, I can't see how I wouldn't have gotten infected. I'm testing myself tomorrow but as of right now I feel fine. On the other hand, our daughter got it first, then my wife got it from her. Our daughter doesn't go to daycare. My wife and I work from home. At the timeframe that makes sense for them getting infected, we were spending our time unboxing our stuff from the house move, we weren't out in public. So WTF?
But because there's no way to know, I don't know what my risk of getting fucked up is, and it's just better to have someone not infected in the house, we're playing fun games. I'm wearing a new N95 every time I leave the spare room upstairs, and they're hanging out in the bigger bedroom across the hall. (Door closed.) I'm also wearing gloves and sanitizing the shit out of my hands every time I come back in the room. (Wife and kiddo were going to hold up in the basement, but I tracked the damn ventilation and it seems this is the better move. Besides, no bed in the basement so that would just suck.)
After all this shit, if I get it then I get it. At this point I'm not willing to do anything else.
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@renauda said
You haven’t been a parent until the little one hands you a raging fever and all that comes with it that scares the living daylights out of you.
We parents who have gone through this understand your concerns Aqua. But somehow COVID adds another dimension to it that we never had to deal with.
Hang in there. Hope you don't get it. Hope your family recovers soon.
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Yes?
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Wife: Sometimes coughing a bit, but sounds like a cold or a flu, nothing too terrible. Temps and O2 never too bad.
Kiddo: All over the damn map. Sometimes close to normal, sometimes O2 down to 91, 92, temp up to 102.5, and she's coughing so bad she's gagging on herself. These coughing fits can last hours. It's terrible. I keep telling myself though that she's been sick the longest, so she'll be the closest to starting to improve, and the coughing fits don't last forever. But even across the hall behind two sets of doors she wakes me up at night with it.
Me: I definitely have some shit. Very slight. I have a slight rasp in my voice, and a bit of a rattle in my breathing at night when I lie down. But I cough it out for half a second and it goes (almost completely) away. Phlegm comes up every once in a long while: opaque banana yellow color, and barely enough to register. I took a COVID test again yesterday, and again it said negative. So what the hell.
Cats: They have no idea what's going on, they just keep crapping where they shouldn't. Assholes. We're not dead yet, jerks, you can't eat us yet. It's not quite time to make the news.
Puck: he keeps escaping from his hutch. I have no idea how the guy's doing it—he's an old bun-bun—but he escapes, has his fun on the deck, jumps over the deck railings and onto our neighbor's sometimes, and then jumps back over and into his hutch like it's no big. I stopped fighting him over it; he's got mad hops for being a geriatric booplesnoot so I'm not going to discourage him from getting out.
Thanks for asking, everybody. Just trying to stay sane and at least healthy enough to not have to go in anywhere.
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Oh my. So sorry your little one is so sick. Here's a thought: At some point, she may need an inhaler to calm down the coughing. Is it a productive cough, is there stuff coming out? If so, then the cough probably needs to happen, though it's hard for her still. If not productive, then maybe an inhaler to give her some rest, or maybe the doc would just have her take some cough suppressant instead. It might be a good conversation to have soon with the doc to find out when that decision (inhaler, suppressant, etc.) should be made. It helps you feel less stressed if you have a plan, and action is much quicker when needed.
Hoping you all feel much better very soon.
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@brenda said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
Oh my. So sorry your little one is so sick. Here's a thought: At some point, she may need an inhaler to calm down the coughing.
I had the same thought, but no bueno. Doesn't really help all that much.
Is it a productive cough, is there stuff coming out?
Completely dry. Sounds close to productive, never is.
It might be a good conversation to have soon with the doc to find out when that decision (inhaler, suppressant, etc.) should be made. It helps you feel less stressed if you have a plan, and action is much quicker when needed.
Sparse on that for now. They won't do or prescribe a damn thing unless she consistently gets below 90. We test her on the hour, and I'm logging it, so that a doc can make sense of her history if it comes to that.
Hoping you all feel much better very soon.
Thanks, brenda.
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Went to a drive-through testing clinic today. Negative. Third time in a row. HOW? I'm sick AF, wife and daughter have COVID at home. So what in the hell do I have and how did I not get COVID?
Daughter's still sounding gnarly, O2 dipping into scary levels at night, but not scary enough to get admitted.
Getting everything delivered so as not to get the whole town infected. They didn't have one of the items, and, strangely, the instacart person made the executive decision to switch it with Cheerwine.
I didn't even know I could get Cheerwine here.
So that's what I'm doing today. Drinking Cheerwine, hocking up foul shit, cleaning out the bunbun hutch.
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She should start turning the corner soon…
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@aqua-letifer said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
@brenda said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
Oh my. So sorry your little one is so sick. Here's a thought: At some point, she may need an inhaler to calm down the coughing.
I had the same thought, but no bueno. Doesn't really help all that much.
It may not help now, but the longer the cough goes on, the more likely she may end up needing it. Maybe those only get prescribed for adults? Dunno on that.Is it a productive cough, is there stuff coming out?
Completely dry. Sounds close to productive, never is.
I suppose that's better than coughing up green crud, but still .. . I feel so bad for her.It might be a good conversation to have soon with the doc to find out when that decision (inhaler, suppressant, etc.) should be made. It helps you feel less stressed if you have a plan, and action is much quicker when needed.
Sparse on that for now. They won't do or prescribe a damn thing unless she consistently gets below 90. We test her on the hour, and I'm logging it, so that a doc can make sense of her history if it comes to that.
That's excellent to log it all. Well done, Daddo!Hoping you all feel much better very soon.
Thanks, brenda.
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@kluurs said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
How is the Mrs. doing? Really hope you folks are a day away from being back on track.
She's doing more or less okay. Honestly I'm just as much worried about those two being stuck inside as I am the damn virus. But she's doing okay.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
Thanks for the updates.
I have nothing to add other than that. Of course, we all worry.
Appreciated, man. So far, though, it seems to be gradual improvement.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
@george-k said in Getting COVID 3 times.:
Thanks for the updates.
I have nothing to add other than that. Of course, we all worry.
Appreciated, man. So far, though, it seems to be gradual improvement.
Even with Thommi?
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