Covid-19

Luckily, our family has been able to stay healthy during the Covid Pandemic.  However, on the drive home from Florida, we started noticing mild symptoms of Charles (sinus) and were notified that several people were testing positive from church camp.  Cade had started getting a headache and what felt like sinuses with itchy eyes.  At the time, Caelin and I felt fine.  With research showing that Covid has a 7-10 day incubation period, we decided to get at home antigen tests at the Walgreens by our neighborhood.  We all 4 took the at home tests.  Charles, Cade, & Caelin tested positive which confirmed the theory that they received it from camp.  We were all devastated to say the least.  We immediately separated to 4 different bedrooms/bathrooms and there was a haze of Lysol all over the house.  I decided to sign up to get a formal PCR test 2 days later since everyone else was positive and I just spent the entire week in Florida with them.  Thankfully, both Cade and Caelin were hardly phased by it, leading us to believe it was the new Delta strand of Covid-19.  They did have a few low grade fevers and were tired, but no symptoms that slowed them down much.  Charles continued to have mild allergy type symptoms at this point.  On Saturday, I woke up with a sore throat and went to take the PCR test.  Ultimately, a few days later I was a confirmed positive.  When I recieved my positive test, Charles was about 5 days into his symptoms and began having major sinus problems, congestion and fevers.  We borrowed a oulse oximeter from neighbors and I took his O2 stats/temp every few hours.  Around day 5 for me, I started feeling like I had the flu with whole body aches, light sensitivity, lethargic, upset stomach, loss of taste and smell, and fevers.  The kids continued to do well and even felt like playing outside at times in the evenings (only with themselves to abide by social distancing recommendations).  Around Day 8, I started feeling MUCH better (just a shortness of breath), but Charles seemed to be getting worse.  The Doctor called in a steroid pack, but when that did not help, we would up going to a minor emergency clinic to get a chest xray to be certain.  The chest Xray was not clear, so they sent us to the hospital for an MRI and additional Steroids/antibiotics.  Finally, after about 10 days, Charles began to feel better and no longer had a fever.  It was not a pleasant experience at all, but we are so blessed that we did not have it as bad as others and that Gamee/Grampee could keep Bear during this time to ensure he did not get it with his auto immune deficiencies.  Now back to the land of the living!