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Coronavirus
Phyll:
The Walgreen's test kit I purchased came with 2 tests. I have not had any symptoms or reports of any family members at the funeral having any symptoms.
The only face to face contacts I have had since the pandemic began in March 2020 were during the 2 court hearings to get the restraining order against our neighbor (and we all wore masks), the week I spent with friends while seeing doctors to find out why I was so sick, the 2 days in jury duty in which I was the only one to wear a mask, and this funeral service. Otherwise, W and I have managed to order supplies on-line, with curb pick up for groceries and drive through or pharmacy deliveries.
I have one more Jury Duty day scheduled for tomorrow. I call in tonight to see if there will be a trial. I really hope it will be cancelled, as the last 2 were. I plan on refusing if a jury trial is scheduled. I truly enjoyed the jury duty experience, but they are not taking any precautions against COVID. I guess they did in May but not anymore. I called about it a couple weeks ago, and questioned why they would not follow the recommendations of the county's own health department. I was told it is up to the judge, and that I could wear a mask. She transferred me to speak with the judge's assistant - I left a message but never got a call back. Hopefully I won't be left in the position of having to refuse, and if I do, I hope they ( :police:) don't put me in jail! (:laugh:)
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P:
I don't think they'd put you in jail for failing to show up and I don't blame you for not putting yourself in harm's way.
My DD19 likely took that same 2 part Covid test.... you take it on the 5th and 7th days after any exposure. The pharmacist said it was very reliable..... in the high 90% for Negatives and the mid 80% for positives, though I haven't found any consistent information about that.
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Hopalong:
We just got an alert from our health district that local transmission is now officially High, and everyone should mask indoors in public, avoid all large gatherings, stay 6' away from others including indoors, and of course (though too late for delta) get the vax. What a shame what's happened in this country to prevent herd immunity ever happening. Unconscionable.
A month ago the daily case rate (cases per 100,000) was 18. Today it's 56 and climbing. The surge is underway. So much for folks who need hospital access for "ordinary" treatments.
I wish my covenant group hadn't cozied up in a small house for potluck the other night. Fingers crossed, it was just 4 of them but it's a very small house. Neighbor is still waiting for her test result.
Dang. I've got a date tomorrow. Outdoors at a restaurant but I don't have a detailed sense of the spacing. Maybe I'll just call the place, and check its website.
Twoapenny:
I'm keeping everything crossed for you guys, things are pretty grim here at the moment as well. Numbers have dipped slightly but it's still very high and I expect likely to stay that way as so many just can't not go to work. I feel dreadful at the moment, no Covid symptoms but I've ordered a test just in case, seems sensible to check even though the symptoms aren't present. Not expecting it to be positive but it will stop me wondering about it. Have rescheduled the carpet installation - feel dreadful, son is really struggling, ought to check it's Covid, friends were coming to stay and I was stressing about how much they've been out over the summer with the numbers so high and our boiler seems to have packed up so someone is supposed to be coming out to look at that on Friday as well (that's assuming I don't test positive). I just can't get everything organised and manage so many people in and out of the house on one day as well as manage son's rising difficulty and my own as well. So I've rescheduled the carpets, told son we will unpack his room if he wants to and repack it when we do get the carpets done. Cancelled the friends and will cancel the boiler guy if my test comes back positive, which I'm hoping it doesn't. It's all so frantic, the guy at the carpet shop said he's spending half his day rescheduling things as people are having to change dates and staff are having to stay home for various reasons. It's all just such a big mess. Hope you guys are all okay over there xx
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Old friend D's husband has pneumonia in an Atlanta hospital.
The regular ICU is full of COVID patients, so he's been in a secondary ICU unit.... I think that's been named ICU Blue. His bed was needed by someone else so he's been transferred to the next level of care, I forget what that's called, but he should go home today.
The gist of this is...... Atlanta's hospitals are at capacity. D and her h had to wait 6 hours in the emergency room for a bed....and his oxygen levels were at 74& which is really bad.
During his stay, he missed regular antibiotic treatments (nebulizer) and walking excercises to determine his oxygen levels, bc staff can;t provide all patients with the care they're suppoed to have and that's just the way it is.
D said everything is about stuffing a pill into patient's faces...... your h can't poop? Here.... take some meds and that's the way it is with every symptom..... here swallow this.... here, lets put this in your IV.... here, have another pill and then THIS pill for the worst symptom created by that pill.
Yes, this friend and her hubby see the same nutritional practitioner. The husband smoked for 50 years and is paying for it, PLUS he goes back and forth between Western and the Nutritional/functional medicine...... he's on a few "standard" drugs for his heart and lungs...... has taken his 3rd break from seeing the Nutritional Practitioner, but I'm guessing fear will drive him into her office this week. Not being able to breathe or walk is a terrifying motivator.
He recently had his heart shocked to establish a regular heartbeat..... and that went very well. Better than the docs thought it would, so there's that happy bit of news on their home front..
He'll have an oxygen tank when he returns home..... won't be able to get up or down the 2 flights of stairs in their townhome, unfortunately.
D was hoping the renovation would be finished at the lake house so they could live here while renovating their master bathroom..... her h shouldn't be breathing that kind of dust.
I'm afraid things have stood still here for 2 weeks..... this would be the third week if contractor remains off site, which appears to be the case AND there's' certainly no shortage of renovation dust so that won't work.
I think they're considering installing an elevator. That seems crazy to me, but selling and moving seems daunting to them right now.
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