Coronavirus on a Personal Basis
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I was in the same bed as my sister when she took her last breaths.
She died early in the morning and the entire 24 hours before I was by her side.
She died early in the morning and the entire 24 hours before I was by her side.
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I am sorry for your mother in law
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It's the hardest thing we'll ever do, but it is also the best thing we'll ever do.
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
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for you and your family, TRL.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 2:08 pm Hubby's mom accomplished her death journey at home on April 29, 2022, exactly nine months after being admitted to a hospice program. As Hubby says, "She birthed me." I say, "We gave her the death she wanted and deserved with little, if any pain, on her part and at home." It was a sacred experience for Hubby and for me. We became closer being Team Charlotte. She was a truly good woman who deserved to die as she wished.
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Last Monday, W2 (who was looking a bit shaggy) went in to his barber for a hair and beard trim. It’s the only place outside our condo that he’s been unmasked for months. (Beard trimming can’t happen with a mask, of course.)
So Wednesday night at around 10PM, he started coughing and sneezing. Symptoms started piling on. At 4AM he took a Covid home test. Positive. OK, we were packed and ready to catch the bus up to visit Verbalobe and Listeme. Obviously that couldn’t happen. He’s scheduled for an infusion of monoclonal antibodies tomorrow morning via medical taxi.
Thursday night we tested me. Negative. OK, institute whatever social distancing one can do in an 1100 sq ft condo. Sleep in shifts so we aren’t in the room at the same time, he can’t unload the dishwasher, etc., opened the windows as much as we could in a Maine Mud season. Friday I started symptoms. Another negative test. Saturday was miserable all around. Still negative. Finally, Sunday gave me the double pink lines that confirmed I also have Covid.
Mine is worse than his. He’s been attending zoom classes and discussing the books they read, sometimes loudly. He’s been cracking dry gallows humor jokes. For him, it’s bad allergies or a cold. Also his senses of smell and taste are gone. He also had his first ever vertigo attack and thought the building was collapsing. Seriously.
Me, on the other hand… sekret for graphicness:
Worst sore throat ever. Like third degree burns. Plus moderate flu. No energy. Or brains.
Tomorrow I’ll find out what the Covid Clinic wants to do for me. Until then, I’ll be enjoying shots of cough syrup with a Benadryl chaser, close to the bathroom.
I have cataract surgery coming up May 18. I’m hoping this doesn’t mean I have to change that date.
So Wednesday night at around 10PM, he started coughing and sneezing. Symptoms started piling on. At 4AM he took a Covid home test. Positive. OK, we were packed and ready to catch the bus up to visit Verbalobe and Listeme. Obviously that couldn’t happen. He’s scheduled for an infusion of monoclonal antibodies tomorrow morning via medical taxi.
Thursday night we tested me. Negative. OK, institute whatever social distancing one can do in an 1100 sq ft condo. Sleep in shifts so we aren’t in the room at the same time, he can’t unload the dishwasher, etc., opened the windows as much as we could in a Maine Mud season. Friday I started symptoms. Another negative test. Saturday was miserable all around. Still negative. Finally, Sunday gave me the double pink lines that confirmed I also have Covid.
Mine is worse than his. He’s been attending zoom classes and discussing the books they read, sometimes loudly. He’s been cracking dry gallows humor jokes. For him, it’s bad allergies or a cold. Also his senses of smell and taste are gone. He also had his first ever vertigo attack and thought the building was collapsing. Seriously.
Me, on the other hand… sekret for graphicness:
Worst sore throat ever. Like third degree burns. Plus moderate flu. No energy. Or brains.
Tomorrow I’ll find out what the Covid Clinic wants to do for me. Until then, I’ll be enjoying shots of cough syrup with a Benadryl chaser, close to the bathroom.
I have cataract surgery coming up May 18. I’m hoping this doesn’t mean I have to change that date.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness.
—Theodore Roosevelt
—Theodore Roosevelt
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I'm so sorry to hear all of that. I hope you both feel better soon.
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Thank goodness there are new medications, IV and pills, to shorten the time of illness and reduce the symptoms.
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
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Boo hiss, bad COVID!
I hope Tricksey is taking good care of you guys.
I hope Tricksey is taking good care of you guys.
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Good care from a safe distance. No covid for Tricksey!Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 3:12 am Boo hiss, bad COVID!
I hope Tricksey is taking good care of you guys.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 2:08 pm Hubby's mom accomplished her death journey at home on April 29, 2022, exactly nine months after being admitted to a hospice program. As Hubby says, "She birthed me." I say, "We gave her the death she wanted and deserved with little, if any pain, on her part and at home." It was a sacred experience for Hubby and for me. We became closer being Team Charlotte. She was a truly good woman who deserved to die as she wished.
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W4- I hope you get better SOON!
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Tricksy says meow.
She tells me every 5 minutes that Daddy is gone. (Getting monoclonal antibodies)
She tells me every 5 minutes that Daddy is gone. (Getting monoclonal antibodies)
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Tricksy
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Meow back atcha, beautiful
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https://www.pressherald.com/2022/05/04/ ... -19-cases/Maine has the highest COVID-19 infection rate among all states after reporting more than 1,000 new cases for a second straight day on Wednesday.
The state reported 372 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days, nearly three times higher than the national average of 130 cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Maine is followed closely by Rhode Island, Vermont and New York.
Infections have spiked over the past few weeks in Maine and other Northeast states as new and more contagious versions of the virus spread across the region. The omicron BA.2 subvariant and two closely related subvariants – BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1 – now account for 80 percent of the new infections in Maine, according to data released by the state.
Each of the new strains of the virus is more contagious than the previous versions, although omicron and its subvariants are less likely to cause hospitalizations and deaths than earlier strains. That fact and the high levels of immunity from vaccinations or previous infections are why public health officials are not expecting a surge in hospitalizations like the one that strained the health system in January.
Average case counts have more than tripled in the past three weeks in Maine, while hospitalizations have increased about 60 percent.
No kidding. W2 got a lovely infusion of monoclonal antibodies, and I’m on a course of Paxlovid**. My senses of taste and smell walked out after my afternoon nap. So far still on the getting worse bus but the antivirals should stop that soon.
** Covid Brain is definitely a thing, but W2 is hopeless at medical stuff. Why else would he spend half the day on the phone getting me a scrip for Paxlovid, only to have it called in (at 4:45) to a pharmacy that closes at 5:00? And not to the one where we know the pharmacy tech WHO WAS AT THE DESK WHEN HE WAS MAKING THE CALLS and was open until 9:00? then woke me up at 5:30 to tell me this? Bless his heart.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness.
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That's rough. I hope you both start on the way back up soon.
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First precautionary test is negative. If tomorrow's test comes back negative, I get to sleep* in my own bed for the first time in a week!
* or not
* or not
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to W4 and Monsieur Vicklund.
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Two minutes to go on the second test and only two lines are showing! (This test has two controls, one for the solution and one for mucus, so it is a slightly more accurate)
Negative!
Negative!
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Much smooching just happened. Now to get lunch.
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"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler