Special holiday wishes going out to everyone who is spending the day sick and/or isolating. It’s a rough virusy time. I hope you get lots of rest and blankets and nice warm drinks and think hopeful thoughts for the new year! 💙
My dad is in hospital for another reason and has just tested positive. We think he got infected in the ER, where no one wore face masks (neither doctors/nurses nor patients) 🤬
The rest of family hoping that we haven't caught it during visits… someone has to look after him.
If it makes you feel better, in my recent (11/25-12/7) stay in the ICU and Transplant Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center EVERYBODY wore a mask, from admission to discharge and all visitors were required as well. Not all hospitals are taking foolish risks.
Oh! Thank you! Doesn't really feel like Christmas this year, honestly. Bowing out for the holiday with these positive tests (seven now!) is the best present I could give my family, I think! But thx for the wishes. Love and health to you and yours ...
♥️🤘🎅🤘💚
❤️ we had a brief scare that had myself and other relatives isolating from each other until one family member's PCR came back negative this morning.
Not the way I was hoping to start my vacation, but at least everything turned out okay and at least we all care enough to try.
I'm down with chronic pain from injuries(no one I know jokes about being hit by a bus anymore) but I know 10 people who tested positive for covid and two for influenza A over the last 24 hours. This variatiant is sneaky as hell.
At least mine isn't contagious!
I have second round of diagnostic injections on Friday and hopefully a nerve ablation mid-January could give me 6 months to 2 years of pain relief. I've already had both of my sacroiliac joints fused. Was on an E scooter and if I hadn't had a helmet on I'd be dead.
my stepmom tested positive this afternoon. she's 91. this is the first time she's had it. i guess imma get next... also been dodging for almost four years. we are vaxxed, i mask. 🤬
Just heard my MIL is “very sick, but it can’t be Covid, because she doesn’t know anyone who’s got Covid.”
Even though they just had a large gathering at their son’s house, full of sick people, none of whom ever got a Covid vaccine.
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* We're heading into the biggest surge we've ever had
Fixed it. Unfortunately unless people were going to stay home and not visit family, this was bound to happen with how JN.1 is. 🥹 And the next two weeks are going to be so much worse.
I tested negative again just in time not to have to spend Christmas alone, with this being the first Christmas without my mom.
I think the booster in November helped me get better so fast. 5 days.
Thank you! Really the weirdest part is although I hate being sick, I find it fascinating and weird to..be sick so differently? My lymph nodes are not involved. I don't really fever. The cold happens in my body and my body...rides the wave? WEIRD. 😂🤷♀️
Tested negative for Covid, influenza a and b.
Must've picked up from the school kids.
After 3 years of not being sick (I still KN95 in public places, closed spaces), it is quite a shock.
A month ago, my 4YO was the only one in the house to dodge a truly gnarly stomach bug after he and I had just recovered from Covid. Guess who threw up in my arms and throughout the night worrying that Santa wouldn't come because he wasn't sleeping…
(Obviously, I told him that Santa would come even if he was sick. Fortunately, I had literally just finished putting presents under the tree when he exploded.)
Oh man. When my kids were little, it was a “tradition“ that norovirus struck at Christmas time. One year we all had it at once. I set up inflatable mattresses and stacks of sheets and everything lined with newspaper in the living room. Easier to clean up the explosions Weirdest sleepover ever.
Thank you Katie. My partner got cold symptoms on Christmas Day & tested Covid positive today. We had boosters recently, so *hopefully* neither of us will feel anything worse than a bad cold. My lungs are a bit of a risk factor though. And Covid symptoms just seem so random! Hope you are well. 🤞🏼❄️☀️
