Getting COVID 3 times.

[LuFins Dad]

Yes?

[Mik]

Indeed.

It's hell when your kid is sick, but this is exponentially worse.

[Aqua Letifer]

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.

[brenda]

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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[George K]

Jesus H.

What a nightmare to deal with - the uncertainty makes it worse.

Thanks for the update.

[Aqua Letifer]

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.

[LuFins Dad]

She should start turning the corner soon…

[kluurs]

How is the Mrs. doing? Really hope you folks are a day away from being back on track.

[brenda]

@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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[George K]

Thanks for the updates.

I have nothing to add other than that. Of course, we all worry.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.

[LuFins Dad]

@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?

[Aqua Letifer]

@lufins-dad said in Getting COVID 3 times.:

@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?

Every time she bounces back, she seems to get better. But when she's bad, it's still down to 89-90 O2, ~102.5 fever. So, it's confusing.

[LuFins Dad]

How was last night?

[Copper]

Hang in there

It is slow, fluids and rest

[Aqua Letifer]

@lufins-dad said in Getting COVID 3 times.:

How was last night?

Some coughing fits from the kiddo, O2 down to 92 at the lowest. I'll take it.

As for me, I was coughing up a lung all night. I tried a telemedicine appointment to get antibiotics, and I shit you not, the quack of a doctor prescribed benzos and allergy medicine.

I can get oxy to my heart's content, and for about a third of the price as chewing gum, but I have no idea how to get some basic fucking antibiotics.

[Jolly]

Helps to have a really good relationship with your doc (or nurse practitioner or dentist).

[Jolly]

And...If you live in a state that does not require a vet's prescription for antibiotics, there are some animal ones that work on humans.