Remember that time I mentioned that Matt wasn't feeling well and so we went hiking without him...well he had Covid. He started not feeling good over the long weekend so on Tuesday he called to see where he could get tested. They said he couldn't test until Thursday. So he quarantined in the guest bedroom until he went to get tested on Thursday well the results came back negative and so we figured it was a different virus and Matt joined the rest of us upstairs in the main living area. I told him if he still wasn't feeling well by the following Monday we needed to get another opinion about what it could be. Kim has used the iv mobile providers before and loved them so I started looking for one in our area and found a couple. I called and made an appt for them to come out on Tuesday since they were full Monday. Tuesday came and a lady came to give Matt and iv to help him feel better and to retest for Covid. The girl was terrible at ivs and stuck him 10 times before deciding to be done. I felt to bad because he already felt so terrible but she did do his Covid test and it came back POSITIVE. She said since he had had symptoms for 9 days at that point that he only had to quarantine 1 more day a which seemed strange since he was so miserable he wasn't going anywhere anyways. But now we had all been exposed. I'm not going to lie I panicked a little about what this could mean for our little family but felt reassured everything would be ok.
Over the next couple days Matt continued to get worse. He couldn't sleep, didn't eat because he felt nauseated. On day 10 he actually ran a fever. The mobile iv owner came on Wed and actually got an iv in Matt the 1st try and gave him an infusion with a bunch of vitamins to help his body. At this point he was back quarantining in the guest bedroom and was miserable despite all the things we tried. Thursday I had a different IV company come and do an infusion again hoping it would help something. The nurse that came was a traveling ICU nurse she was super knowledgeable and made me feel better about the situation. Matt's fever went away but he couldn't even walk the stairs without needing a break. It was the sickest I have ever seen him. When Matt first got sick I started him on supplements and ordered more when we found out he did indeed have covid. Although I had been nervous about the rest of us no one had really had symptoms. Hallie hadn't felt great for about a day and a half but nothing like Matt had. I was supposed to work the following Monday and I had to get tested in order to go back to work so I went and got myself tested only to find out I was positive as well. Monday I called the pediatrician to have Liam seen and be tested as well since he was under 3 and I took the girls to get tested as well. Come to find out we were all positive. I then panicked a little more not knowing when we had started symptoms and if it would get worse. We headed home to quarantine some more. This time we did every 2 hour pulse ox and temp checks. Matt was the only one that was occasionally low...which had been the case for about a week. So he would do some deep breathing to get it back up and then we would retest 2 hours later. We watched a lot of movies, puzzles, and just hung out. By day 15 Matt finally felt better and more like himself. None of us ever had anymore symptoms but did our 14 day quarantine just to be sure. I loved Amazon during this time. I would jump on and order things that would show up sporadically over the weeks for the kids and us to do. Although Matt was working form home he was so sick he didn't work for a week so he was glad to be back working as well. Amy brought us this cute care package to help pass the time with stuff to make caramel apples and a few pamper things.
The weather was beautiful so we got outside for fresh air at least once a day with a good walk. We also picked leaves and made crafts. It was for the most part pretty fun.
I only included one of our tests just to refer back to what they look like. I was to some extent relieved that we all got it at the same time so we weren't quarantining for months at a time. It was a really hard time for Hallie to be out. The online school was very different and honestly kinda useless. When she went back she was very behind and struggling in a couple of her classes. They gave her an aide to help her during her lunch and it was so hard to see her struggle. The transition to junor high hasn't been easy for her. I actually don't love how the school system is structured here. Growing up I went to intermediate school for 6th & 7th grade it slowly taught you about having more than one teacher and the different expectations. In the Valley they go to elementary school until 6th grade and junior high for 7th the transition from 1 to 7 teachers and totally different expectations have been a shock. She'll get on top of it but I hate that its hard.
I'm still not sure how I feel about covid. There is so much fear surrounding it but I really think if people would take a look at their lives and change their eating, sleeping, and lifestyle that it would help it not be as scary. But for some reason no one is focused on that. It all just seems really strange.
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