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Post by natscraps on Oct 31, 2020 15:05:31 GMT
I would really like to just stick my head in the sand and say “it’s just a cold”. I get one every year around this time and usually bronchitis or pneumonia shortly follows. I teach preschool and usually barrel on through and never miss a day of work. This year is different. Spent Wednesday and Thursday sneezing with runny nose and chalked it up to the usual allergies. Took a large dose of benedryl Thursday night and felt like a million bucks yesterday. Fast forward to this morning and I woke up with a dry cough, headache, and elevated temp. It has sent my anxiety through the roof.
I know the responsible thing to do is quarantine and get tested. Of course finding a way to get tested has been almost impossible. Finally managed to get an appointment through urgent care with a different hospital system for this afternoon. I may be panicking for nothing. I want to crawl under the covers and say it’s just a cold. But I know I can’t.
I feel awful that I may have exposed my families at work this week. It’s one of the craziest times of year with fall celebrations, assessments, and conferences. There’s a deadline for CARES act paperwork I’m trying to meet. My stress level was already through the roof and now this.
Worst of all I had to cancel Halloween for my 5 year old. He’s been counting down the days since the beginning of August. We were only going trick or treat at 6 ‘safe’ houses. I had made arrangements with specific friends and neighbors that i know have been taking precautions for him to trick or treat at earlier in the day. (None of them are passing out candy tonight). I had to hold back my tears as I told him.
Ugh I hate this!!!! Thanks for reading if you got this far. I just needed to get it out.
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Post by peasquared on Oct 31, 2020 15:07:26 GMT
Oh, I'm sorry! But, THANK YOU for doing the right thing! I hope you test negative and get feeling better soon. Take care!
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Post by gizzy on Oct 31, 2020 15:09:45 GMT
Is it a rapid test? Hopefully you get your results back in time to take him tot'ing. That had to have hurt your mama heart to have to tell him he couldn't go.
I worry about this myself as I also have allergies. This year just bites all the way around.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 15:16:29 GMT
Gads, that really sucks! Sorry you are feeling so bad! And for your little one’s tears.
My DD made a “Dragon Heist” for the Grands in their home. The dragon stole their candy and the kids (in costume) will have to go find it around the house. Perhaps, if you feel up to it and have some treats you could do something similar inside your place.
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Post by SockMonkey on Oct 31, 2020 15:18:47 GMT
I’m so so sorry. I hope your test is negative and you’re feeling better soon. It sucks that the right thing is often the hard thing.
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Post by gramma on Oct 31, 2020 15:21:25 GMT
Can I suggest that you do an in house Halloween? Hide little treats around the house and let him search for them. Dress him up in his costume and take pictures.
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Post by tentoes on Oct 31, 2020 15:21:54 GMT
Praying for the NEGATIVE outcome on this! Hope you feel better soon==whatever it is.
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Post by volunteergirl on Oct 31, 2020 15:25:28 GMT
Could your neighbors bring the candy to your porch and drop it off? He could be in his costume in the house looking out the window or front door.
Hopefully this is nothing and you test negative.
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Post by natscraps on Oct 31, 2020 15:27:06 GMT
That’s the thing.... I don’t feel all that cruddy. Any normal year and I’d still be taking him out trick or treat in my current state. My stepdad is going to hide the treats he had for him in our yard so at least he’ll have something. For DS it’s not even about the candy. He just likes going out talking to people and seeing all their different costumes.
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Post by tommygirl on Oct 31, 2020 16:12:03 GMT
Can your stepdad take him out trick or treating?
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Post by seaexplore on Oct 31, 2020 17:00:36 GMT
Gads, that really sucks! Sorry you are feeling so bad! And for your little one’s tears. My DD made a “Dragon Heist” for the Grands in their home. The dragon stole their candy and the kids (in costume) will have to go find it around the house. Perhaps, if you feel up to it and have some treats you could do something similar inside your place. We're doing a flashlight candy hunt in the house for my 9 and 4 year olds. It'll be fine, I think. We weren't planning on going out due to stupid Covid. I'm good with that. I always end up with shin splints the next day due to walking hills (we live at the top of a hill and all the roads are hilly) |
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Post by scrapmaven on Oct 31, 2020 17:04:06 GMT
Can I suggest that you do an in house Halloween? Hide little treats around the house and let him search for them. Dress him up in his costume and take pictures. I think this is a brilliant idea. Also, we never kept the candy in our house. The boys trick or treated adn at the end of the night they traded in their candy for a Thomas train. They agreed to it each year and always looked fwd to the toy at the end, not caring about the candy. They could keep the candy from 3 houses (neighbors w/whom we are friends and we had plenty of leftovers, anyway). Could your stepdad pick out a toy and make that the last thing he finds?
I'm thinking negative test thoughts for you. Meanwhile, rest rest rest and I hope you feel better quickly.
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Post by auntkelly on Oct 31, 2020 17:37:05 GMT
I hope your test is negative.
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Post by nine on Oct 31, 2020 17:37:41 GMT
So, you usually go to work with little kids when you have bronchitis and/or pneumonia? You know both of those are contagious, right?
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Post by gramma on Oct 31, 2020 18:15:40 GMT
So, you usually go to work with little kids when you have bronchitis and/or pneumonia? You know both of those are contagious, right? Aaannnd there it goes. From supportive to scolding :-( |
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Post by nine on Oct 31, 2020 19:03:15 GMT
So, you usually go to work with little kids when you have bronchitis and/or pneumonia? You know both of those are contagious, right? Aaannnd there it goes. From supportive to scolding :-( Just wanted to point out that she regularly does what she is complaining about now. Just ignore if you wish. |
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Oct 31, 2020 19:09:33 GMT
I hope you are negative and feel better soon.
Such a strange time. Any twinge of anything and we all second guess what we normally would know.
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Post by Baseballmom23 on Oct 31, 2020 20:01:01 GMT
Youngest DS had a potential exposure at school last week. He was sent for a test at an urgent care and the results came back within 30 mins (double nostril swab). He came back negative.
When are scheduled to get the results?
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Post by epeanymous on Oct 31, 2020 20:36:02 GMT
I am so sorry. This sucks.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Oct 31, 2020 20:46:03 GMT
Can your stepdad take him out trick or treating? That’s what I was wondering. He can still do the parts he enjoys at a distance. Poor you. Poor little kid. Good luck. Let us know. |
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Post by longtimenopea on Oct 31, 2020 21:32:00 GMT
So, you usually go to work with little kids when you have bronchitis and/or pneumonia? You know both of those are contagious, right? Most teachers I know go to work unless they are too sick to get out of bed. Subs are sometimes hard to come by, and it helps a lot to keep as much continuity as possible, and most of the time if the teacher is sick it’s something going around the school - we all do have to be more cautious in this day and age I believe, but you might be surprised to learn how often teachers go to school when they are under the weather. |
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Post by scrappintoee on Oct 31, 2020 21:47:53 GMT
Ugh, I'm sorry for all of the stress you're dealing with !!!  This is such a scary, horrible time, isn't it?  |
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Post by tracyarts on Oct 31, 2020 22:12:52 GMT
When I had my test earlier this week, the doctor at the clinic that administered it said that the new rapid result tests they're using are reliable and accurate for symptomatic patients, and don't have the same kind of issues with high numbers of false negatives that earlier tests had. Hopefully you can get one soon.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 22:58:05 GMT
I’m sorry and it’s good you are playing it safe. Hopefully your test result comes back negative.
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Post by natscraps on Oct 31, 2020 23:08:16 GMT
I had made an appointment at urgent care for later this afternoon and they actually called and said they weren't busy if I wanted to come in 3 hrs earlier. Quick swab and was on my way. They said 3 days at the most for results because of the high amounts of testing right now, but could be as little as 24 hours. Our numbers just keep spiking around here. PopPop (my stepdad) dropped off DS's goody bag on our front porch so he's been happily covering the house with glow sticks and throwing his new light up ghost ball off the walls. He's dressed up in several previous Halloween costumes and has been "trick or treating" around the house. Most teachers I know go to work unless they are too sick to get out of bed. Subs are sometimes hard to come by, and it helps a lot to keep as much continuity as possible, and most of the time if the teacher is sick it’s something going around the school - we all do have to be more cautious in this day and age I believe, but you might be surprised to learn how often teachers go to school when they are under the weather. ...and doctors, and nurses, and most everyone else. You get it @longtimenopeapea. |
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Post by questioning on Oct 31, 2020 23:34:53 GMT
I'm so sorry!It must be extra hard worrying about your little guy.
I'm waiting for my results. I had a chance to see one of my sons (home from college) and he became ill and tested positive days later.
Meanwhile, I've got friends who returned from the beach in Mexico last week and now have driven to OBX by way of a stopover in Nashville (over 3,000 mile roadtrip RT)- not a care in the world about exposures or spreading. Oooops, I should have saved that for a vent thread.
Thank you for caring and having a conscious.
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Post by yinzer on Nov 1, 2020 0:18:38 GMT
I was where you are just days ago. Thought it was just a cold because I have been so very cautious. Got tested because it was the right thing to do.
Imagine my shock when it came back positive! I actually cried. Thankfully no one else in my extremely small circle has tested positive (including my daughter who is 35 weeks pregnant).
I am glad that I got tested. I would have felt the same way even if I had tested negative.
Hopefully your test is negative because this virus really does suck
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Post by lisae on Nov 1, 2020 1:07:23 GMT
Hopefully the test will be negative and when you feel better, you can plan some other type of celebration for him. You are putting your health and other people's safety first. It's a good lesson you are teaching your child. He'll learn something that will last a lot longer than candy.
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Post by natscraps on Nov 1, 2020 15:56:33 GMT
Results are in and I'm Negative  Thanks for all the positive thoughts. Now I'm off to finish allll of the progress reports for tomorrow's parent teacher conferences.  |
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 1, 2020 16:18:16 GMT
Results are in and I'm Negative Thanks for all the positive thoughts. Now I'm off to finish allll of the progress reports for tomorrow's parent teacher conferences. do you still not feel well? I'm not insinuating this is you, but I've had a couple of teachers test negative, still feel bad, but come to work just because it isn't Covid. Just want to make sure you feel better before going to work...unless you are virtual and doing conferences virtually |
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