Symptoms (part 2)

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Symptoms (part 2):

Any word?

D3 got tested again yesterday, and she should have results tomorrow. Frankly, I'm surprised she tested negative after she developed symptoms, but then she sent me this:

Hopefully we'll have some answers tomorrow.

Her chest still feels tight, but no headache or fever.

With luck, if she tests positive, it'll be a mild case.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K How about the Mrs?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Symptoms (part 2):

@George-K How about the Mrs?

Ever since Saturday, she gets a very low-grade temperature in the afternoon. The highest it's been is 99.6. It passes in a few hours. Today, it was 99. I think I mentioned she got tested yesterday, so, we'll see.

I remain asymptomatic.

I can't help but wonder if I didn't get it in early March at a couple of concerts (Gardiner's Beethoven). They were on Monday and Tuesday, and on Saturday and Sunday, I thought I was going to die. And the...poof! Nothing.

[LuFins Dad]

Also, again, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out this is something else. There are other bugs out there. The three big tells for COVID seem to be dramatic loss of smell and taste, high fever, and unproductive cough - SOB. It seems like she is only getting the SOB and that could be explained by any number of nasties combined with her asthma.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Symptoms (part 2):

@LuFins-Dad said in Symptoms (part 2):

@George-K How about the Mrs?

Ever since Saturday, she gets a very low-grade temperature in the afternoon. The highest it's been is 99.6. It passes in a few hours. Today, it was 99. I think I mentioned she got tested yesterday, so, we'll see.

I remain asymptomatic.

I can't help but wonder if I didn't get it in early March at a couple of concerts (Gardiner's Beethoven). They were on Monday and Tuesday, and on Saturday and Sunday, I thought I was going to die. And the...poof! Nothing.

Have you gone for the antibodies test? I am thinking about doing that after Christmas...

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Symptoms (part 2):

Have you gone for the antibodies test?

No, I haven't. I'm seeing a new internist on Tuesday, and I thought I'd bring it up at that time.

[mark]

Oh man. Hope it's nothing and you and the Mrs. remain healthy.

[kluurs]

@George-K said in Symptoms (part 2):

I can't help but wonder if I didn't get it in early March

Spouse and I both felt pretty blown away in March and assumed we had it. Carol had the antibodies test later and came back negative so we assumed it must have been something else but who knows?

[George K]

Mrs. George tested negative.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K

Thank Goodness! When does your daughter get her new result?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in Symptoms (part 2):

Mrs. George tested negative.

Great news!

[kluurs]

Great news! Let's keep things that way.

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Symptoms (part 2):

@George-K

Thank Goodness! When does your daughter get her new result?
I would hope today. Or tomorrow.

[Copper]

@George-K said in Symptoms (part 2):

Mrs. George tested negative.

Oh-oh, opposites attract, you better get tested.

[George K]

@Copper said in Symptoms (part 2):

Oh-oh, opposites attract, you better get tested.

I did! I was tested on Saturday - I'm negative as well.

[Copper]

Likes repel - sorry.

[brenda]

When negative is a good thing.

[Mik]

A very good thing.

[Jolly]

All tests are not created equal. We had a patient about a week ago, that tested negative on the BD screening test.

Nice thing about small hospitals, the hospitalist walked down and sat down on a lab stool. Patiebt has classic symptoms, including the start of the typical pneumonia. So we referred specimens to Mayo and State Public Health.

Two bingos.

Lot of the rapids sacrifice sensitivity for specificity.

[George K]

@jolly D3 is still symptomatic. Afebrile, but with a headache and wheezing. She's an asthmatic.

She tested last week, and found out this AM that she's negative.

Perhaps a community-acquired bronchitis or something.