1. Taylor Swift rocks!
2. Covid sucks.
Full story: Rooster and I saw an AMAZING Taylor Swift concert this weekend. It was just so much fun, such an elaborate production, and I love that Rooster and I were able to enjoy this together.
We've still be masking, as I described in my earlier post. I had been masking, except for meals, at the conference in Tennessee for 5 days leading up to the concert. While I was not the only person of ~300 attendees wearing a mask, I saw about 5 people total wearing one so at most times I was the only person in a room with a mask.
At the concert I let Rooster take the lead on whether or not we'd wear masks, and she took hers off once the concert started. I have to admit, it would have been pretty uncomfortable with them on. So this was the first time she'd been inside, around people, maskless, for more than just a meal, in over a year!
I do recall something about a woman sitting right next to Rooster. We were in our seats for about a half hour before the concert started, and I couldn't say how long she was there too, but definitely for some of that time period. Once the concert started, after a few songs she sat down and looked like she wasn't felling well. She left probably about a quarter of the way through, and never came back. I felt bad for her, but I didn't really think much about it with regards to covid.
I kept wearing my mask at work this week--I think at this point I am only one still doing so. But I kept thinking, maybe if I get through this week without having caught it, I'd stop masking after the holiday.
Last night I had tap class and I thought maybe I'd go maskless, then I decided, better not. That was day 4 since the concert, still within the time period from exposure to symptoms.
I got home from the tap class (a classmate and my teacher both had been to the concert!) and Rose said, my throat's felt scratchy and swollen all day. (She didn't bring it up to her dad who was working at home, or to us at dinner, or to her dad again when he took her to Buster's baseball game and then the three of them went out shopping for......something.)
So I tested her. Very faint line.....not even pink.....so faint that I wondered if it might have been an issue with the test. I checked online and found that it's possible to get that shadow with a negative test, if somebody moves it before the 15 minutes are up. Which Buster did. So I figured we'd test again this morning.
She woke up today with a better but still scratchy throat. I tested her again, and again saw a faint line. This time a bit stronger. So yeah, probably, she has it. Fortunately the scratchy throat is really all that she has. No fatigue, no fever.
At the moment I feel fine myself, and tested negative. But I was alongside her Saturday night, and have been around her quite a bit since then. so, the masking and isolation have begun.....
It's just so frustrating that for the past few months we've been the only maskers around, and then on the rare occasion we let our guard down, we get it. That's how it happened 2 of the other times we got covid. It's not that we go around all willy-nilly, not masking. Last summer Rooster went to a sleepover; we were well aware that it could result in covid but were tired of denying her social time with friends. Last winter Buster went over to friends' houses a couple times, not wearing masks. Those are pretty much the only times we've gone anywhere and chosen *not* to wear masks. And it got us. So I'm fully aware that we were taking risks. It's just that other people seem to be riskier than we are, and aren't getting sick. I don't know anyone who's had it since MrPi did about 6 weeks ago. (That's a case we don't know where it came from!)
Funny thing. If I do come down with it, it will be at the same time as last year, so the 2nd covid birthday in a row for me.
Another thing that's frustrating is that it throws the house into chaos, or at least I somehow make it that way. The kids don't have school or camp this week so they were already at home. I was already working at home a half day, and I cancelled a couple in person meetings I had but am keeping meetings that can be done on zoom. Still, I just can't focus because I have to keep track of a million things. Here's what's running through my head, feel free to stop reading: Should I take Buster to his orthodontist appointment this morning? Sure, he wasn't at the concert to probably isn't a risk. And I'll N95. Oh, but Rooster has an appointment this afternoon, better cancel that......and oh darn, she has to miss her dance class tonight. And WHOOPS! There she is now coming out for lunch, better put my mask on.....hmmm. MrPi was already going to stay home with the kids tomorrow. Should I stay home, or is it ok to go in to work if I test negative? If I stay home, what do I have to get covered at work? Oh bummer.....we have tickets to Murder on the Orient Express tomorrow night. That's pretty much out.....Hmmm, let's do the calculations, Rooster's day 6, her out of isolation day, would be July 4th. If I test positive today, my out of isolation day is July 5th so I could go back into to work then! But now I struggle exactly how I did when MrPi was sick, not knowing if we want to play this annoying isolation dance at home to not get sick, or just get sick and get it over with. I was proud that nobody but MrPi got sick last month, but maybe if we had caught it, we would be immune and not going through this now. TBH, having it now is better than having had it then.
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