Please send me good vibes...

[saraha]

My dd got the call that her new boss and his family woke up this morning unable to taste and smell, so don't come in to work today. There are three of them in this little one room, she was the only one masking. The other office person has no symptoms so far. I called our family doctors practice that does testing to schedule a test, got a machine saying leave your name and number and someone will call you back within 24 hours Monday through Friday.

it's Friday afternoon 2:30. What do you think is the likelihood of them calling us back?!? Her and my anxiety is through the roof

[prairiewindmomma]

I would look up testing centers in your area. Odds are that’s where they will be sending you anyway—but to get an effective test it should be at least five days after exposure.

For now, I would be taking vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, and quercetin and avoiding sugar and poor nutrition. I would also be keeping her separate in the household and running a HEPA filter in her room.

[saraha]

1 minute ago, prairiewindmomma said:

I would look up testing centers in your area. Odds are that’s where they will be sending you anyway—but to get an effective test it should be at least five days after exposure.

For now, I would be taking vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, and quercetin and avoiding sugar and poor nutrition. I would also be keeping her separate in the household and running a HEPA filter in her room.

Thanks, we have been taking the vitamin protocol. it is our only testing center within a 45-1 hour drive

 

[saraha]

Greaaaaattttt they called back and said they would test her Monday and we would know by Friday. $#@&%$#  how is that supposed to help at all??? The rest of the people who work in my house are supposed to come in unless there is a positive test in the house, but there may not be a positive test until the people in my house have been working with their co-workers for over a week! I just cant even right now. We want to do the right thing

[Starr]

I'm so sorry. The turn around time just isn't helpful. 😞

[mommyoffive]

37 minutes ago, saraha said:

My dd got the call that her new boss and his family woke up this morning unable to taste and smell, so don't come in to work today. There are three of them in this little one room, she was the only one masking. The other office person has no symptoms so far. I called our family doctors practice that does testing to schedule a test, got a machine saying leave your name and number and someone will call you back within 24 hours Monday through Friday.

it's Friday afternoon 2:30. What do you think is the likelihood of them calling us back?!? Her and my anxiety is through the roof

What the heck?  Why would they not be masking???  That is insane. 

[mommyoffive]

That really sucks.  I am sending lots of prayers none of you guys get it.  Your dd is at home right?  

[saraha]

Yep, they called her to tell her not to come into work. My two other kids called their jobs and were told to come in unless they personally have symptoms or there is a positive test in the house. All I can think of is asympotamatic spreading we can accomplish. What good does it do to test if it takes a week to get it back, you can't quarentine until you get the test results and when you do, there is only 4 days left to complete the 14 days since exposure? I am at a loss of what to do. Nothing I guess. I don't know if it is even worth it to test at that point.

[saraha]

13 minutes ago, mommyoffive said:

What the heck?  Why would they not be masking???  That is insane. 

This is my post from the people on facebook thread:

Posted January 1

Ok, I have to put this somewhere, and thought here would be an ok place to vent. So. My dh has 14 first cousins, (well more but this only pertains to them)on both sides of the river. Every year the 15 of them and their spouses get together over the holidays. This year, they decide to get together tomorrow at a restaurant over the river that said it would seat up to 30! We bowed out right away, as did another couple as 2 in their household have active fevers. Now this gets tangled up quickly, as there are sibling groups in the 15 and the couple with the fevers share a sibling (and spent Christmas day together) with another couple.

Now get this, among the couples who rsvp'd yes (7 so far) one is a minister (whose sibling's family have 2 fevers and spent Christmas together), one is a teacher in a Christian school that does not require masks for anyone, one is a lawyer in whose office my dd is supposed to start after the holidays, and one is THE DIRECTOR OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH for our county.

Guess whose county is third in the state for positives/population...

In the meantime, one of kids of one couple, texted a bunch of teenagers of the other couples (including mine)and wants them all to come over while the parents are away. Nope.

[mommyoffive]

7 minutes ago, saraha said:

This is my post from the people on facebook thread:

Posted January 1

Ok, I have to put this somewhere, and thought here would be an ok place to vent. So. My dh has 14 first cousins, (well more but this only pertains to them)on both sides of the river. Every year the 15 of them and their spouses get together over the holidays. This year, they decide to get together tomorrow at a restaurant over the river that said it would seat up to 30! We bowed out right away, as did another couple as 2 in their household have active fevers. Now this gets tangled up quickly, as there are sibling groups in the 15 and the couple with the fevers share a sibling (and spent Christmas day together) with another couple.

Now get this, among the couples who rsvp'd yes (7 so far) one is a minister (whose sibling's family have 2 fevers and spent Christmas together), one is a teacher in a Christian school that does not require masks for anyone, one is a lawyer in whose office my dd is supposed to start after the holidays, and one is THE DIRECTOR OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH for our county.

Guess whose county is third in the state for positives/population...

In the meantime, one of kids of one couple, texted a bunch of teenagers of the other couples (including mine)and wants them all to come over while the parents are away. Nope.

Oh man now I remember you post.  I am mad for you.   And just mad that people are doing.  WTF?   Of course everyone wanted to get together and have fun at Christmas or anytime.  But you shouldn't be doing, ya know?  Gosh.  I don't get it that this far in that people are doing this.  And that is why the daily death rate in our country was the highest yesterday.   Just makes me so mad and so sad.  

[happi duck]

(hugs) ~~good vibes~~

[caedmyn]

1 hour ago, saraha said:

Yep, they called her to tell her not to come into work. My two other kids called their jobs and were told to come in unless they personally have symptoms or there is a positive test in the house. All I can think of is asympotamatic spreading we can accomplish. What good does it do to test if it takes a week to get it back, you can't quarentine until you get the test results and when you do, there is only 4 days left to complete the 14 days since exposure? I am at a loss of what to do. Nothing I guess. I don't know if it is even worth it to test at that point.

If it makes you feel any better, a large study from China found 0 cases of covid spreading through asymptomatic people.

[Ausmumof3]

I’m sorry testing is being so slow.  

[PeterPan]

4 hours ago, saraha said:

4 days left to complete the 14 days since exposure?

The CDC is saying 7 days now, right? 

I think just hope for the best or 2nd best or 3rd best. I have an elderly friend who just tested positive after seeing her loved ones for the holidays. Ironically, she may have made some of her children visiting her sick. (not the other way around, as the kids tested and the elderly person didn't) and *she's asymptomatic*! It's just so convoluted, not what I would have expected.

So 2nd best is she has been exposed but she gets it only mildly or asymptomatically. I think I would let her have some quarantine time, feed her soup, let her write in a journal and stream movies. Was she wearing a Happy Mask or something relatively protective by any chance?

I have relatives now who've gotten it and been fine, including some we literally assumed it would kill. I think hope for 2nd best, that you get it and do ok. It can happen. 

[Melissa in Australia]

Hugs

[Karen A]

18 minutes ago, PeterPan said:

The CDC is saying 7 days now, right? 

 

Maybe you all discussed this on another thread, but I didn't want to leave the above without explanation.

 

From the CDC website:

CDC continues to endorse quarantine for 14 days and recognizes that any quarantine shorter than 14 days balances reduced burden against a small possibility of spreading the virus. 

Your local public health authorities make the final decisions about how long quarantine should last, based on local conditions and needs. Follow the recommendations of your local public health department if you need to quarantine. Options they will consider include stopping quarantine

After day 10 without testing

After day 7 after receiving a negative test result (test must occur on day 5 or later)

After stopping quarantine, you should

Watch for symptoms until 14 days after exposure.

If you have symptoms, immediately self-isolate and contact your local public health authority or healthcare provider.

Wear a mask, stay at least 6 feet from others, wash your hands, avoid crowds, and take other steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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Remember that the last day of close contact with a positive person is Day 0, and a 7 day quarantine means one can be out on Day 8. Illinois school guidelines (which I am familiar with) require the negative test result to be a PCR (not the rapid antigen test ), with the test on or after Day 6. The one week "early-out" is  only to be used for adults who need to work or the like. Also they  are supposed to mask, social distance even at home if at all possible.

 

OP, I'm so sorry you all are going through this, and for the extended family aspect too...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Karen A
Grammar and clarity

[ktgrok]

15 hours ago, caedmyn said:

If it makes you feel any better, a large study from China found 0 cases of covid spreading through asymptomatic people.

link?

12 hours ago, PeterPan said:

The CDC is saying 7 days now, right? 

I think just hope for the best or 2nd best or 3rd best. I have an elderly friend who just tested positive after seeing her loved ones for the holidays. Ironically, she may have made some of her children visiting her sick. (not the other way around, as the kids tested and the elderly person didn't) and *she's asymptomatic*! It's just so convoluted, not what I would have expected.

So 2nd best is she has been exposed but she gets it only mildly or asymptomatically. I think I would let her have some quarantine time, feed her soup, let her write in a journal and stream movies. Was she wearing a Happy Mask or something relatively protective by any chance?

I have relatives now who've gotten it and been fine, including some we literally assumed it would kill. I think hope for 2nd best, that you get it and do ok. It can happen. 

Well, and that would have to include none of her family spreading it to others at their place of work. 

The happy mask is protective via the filter, but does not have a close seal, so wouldn't count on it to keep aerosolized virus out over a several day, all day, exposure. That's why they are more for protecting others. 

[saraha]

So, now I have heard about three of the couples who went to that dinner are now being tested because of symptoms. My dd gets tested this afternoon. She hasn’t had a single symptom but I have been sick for a couple of days and different kids have had headaches off and on over the week. We didn’t go to that dinner but here we are 🤬🤬🤬

[saraha]

I have no idea what is going to happen with care for mil if everyone has it at the same time

[mommyoffive]

1 hour ago, saraha said:

So, now I have heard about three of the couples who went to that dinner are now being tested because of symptoms. My dd gets tested this afternoon. She hasn’t had a single symptom but I have been sick for a couple of days and different kids have had headaches off and on over the week. We didn’t go to that dinner but here we are 🤬🤬🤬

Ugh, that would make me so mad.  I am sorry.   Sending lots of good thoughts your way.

[mommyoffive]

59 minutes ago, saraha said:

I have no idea what is going to happen with care for mil if everyone has it at the same time

Does your MIL live with you? 

[saraha]

No, she lives with my fil on an adjoining farm. She is sliding into dementia and can’t be left alone for very long so we take turns being with her so fil can get outside work done as she will go out to look for him if he leaves her alone for more than a few minutes. Also I clean her house every Monday to give him respite and take meals to their house two nights a week

Edited January 11, 2021 by saraha