Spiky Bugger
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Thanks, MsVee. It IS hard to watch and wait. We went over the chronology today.
Earlier in June, BF’s boss decided he had the flu. ”Nothing serious.” But he kind of stopped eating/drinking.
6/10–BF complained that the meat at dinner tasted like boiled cardboard.
6/12-BF’s boss went to ER, diagnosed w/pneumonia, then COVID-19.
6/12-MiniSue, BF and his daughter got tested.
6/13-BF had lost any sense of smell or taste.
6/14-BF test ret’d positive; “girls” needed retesting, so off they went. MiniSue developed low grade fever.
6/16-MiniSue’s test ret’d positive, dtr was negative and so she went to her Mom’s.
And then they both just felt lousy, low grade fevers, no sense of taste or smell, fatigue for another week.
6/23-MiniSue’s cough began.
(Meanwhile, BF’s boss was admitted then discharged from the hospital three times.)
6/26-MiniSue had TeleHealth visit. PCP wrote Rx for prednisone for cough, but only if she felt she needed it.
6/28-MiniSue had another TeleHealth visit with a doctor at a place called heal.com for a second opinion re the steroids...which might close down the cough but also might impact her immune system. Second doctor agreed that they are all learning and doing their best with zero experience, but that he would go along with the prednisone since the cough has not subsided.
And that’s where we are.
So, that’s rwo weeks in the life of a COVID-19 patient who has a very mild case. And her family. Two weeks during which I’ve lost all sense time and gained about eight pounds.
“Little Bits” has been quarantined at her mommy’s house for two weeks tomorrow, so the two of them will go get retested and maybe un-quarantine themselves.
oh! And the boss is a bit of a moron...stopped eating/drinking...ended up perforating his stomach, so emergency surgery for him and currently recovering in the COVID Ward of the hospital.
