Vacation Covid

Lest you think our vacation was all fun and games I will confess I was in quarantine for 10 days. At the airport in Miami on the day returning home I took my mask off for just a moment and a woman (who I had noticed had a cold early and worried she might be on my flight) strolled beside me and sneezed about two feet from my face. Four days later I contracted this terrible sickness. Alas I had been hosting a meeting that morning, and while I had tested negative the day before I did not test again before the meeting. The rest of our time home was a bit of a fog to me. Immediately upon testing positive I quaranteend my self in the downstairs room. Notified my doctor and went to sleep. I had a virtual meeting with a Covid Nurse the next day who reccommended I take Ibuprofin (I guess Covid is an inflamitory disease) drink a liter of water an hour (I was very dehydrated but a liter of water an hour is hard to injest I just did the best I could), and use Afrin. I did all this and ten days later I tested negative. So basically I had ten days of hybernation after I got home. It wasn't so bad but now that I feel so much better it is hard to imagine how sick I was. I feel so lucky to have been fully vaxxed and to have not had to interrupt my vacation for covid. I think of all those people stranded in other countries because they contracted covid while overseas. Of the 103 million who have died of covid in the U.S. and I feel fortunate. I also think about how worried about getting covid when I was working and how lucky I was that I didn't get it while I was needing to do my job. My heart goes out to everyone who has had a worse experience than I did.

Comments

  1. JuliFebruary 17, 2023 at 7:04 AM

    So glad you're better, C-Traz :o
    ps this website is very cool and pretty

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

It ain't over till it's over

Image
 We are still on Sabbatical but we are home in Dedham. I have missed our town but have come home to quite a mess. Backed up sewage in the basement, rotted-out kitchen flooring, and a messy house. I always like to clean things before I leave but we left the dogs here and work has been going on in the house. Alas, nothing could be done but plug away at a long to-do list. I wonder if living in the pop-up would be a preferred life for me. The giant parsonage feels so overwhelming sometimes, where the pop-up you just sweep a little floor and you are often done. Thank goodness I have more help with the parsonage :) Once we were nearing the end of the trip I couldn't wait to get home. I did get the norovirus in the last few days so that may have helped me want to get home- it isn't easy being sick on the road. As you might also remember I got covid after our January trip to Florida so perhaps home is where I want to be sick? Or home is where I can tick off my to-do lists.  My heart i...
Read more

Washington, D.C.

Image
This past Friday-Tuesday were the first few days of our cross-country adventure!  First stop = Quakertown, PA, where we enjoyed wonderful time with lots of family and friends.  PA feels more and more like home  each time we visit . . . perhaps something we should pay attention to!  Special shoutout to my brother Keith who cooked up a yummy dinner and let 17 family  members  invade his house and flop around on his new couch.  We will, for sure, seek out his services again.  Five stars!  We even saw some of our VT lake neighbors in their PA habitat!  :) Yesterday, we headed south.  After locating the house in which Rali and her family lived for a few of her elementary school years, we stopped at the Valley Forge National Park.  Rali remembers going there at the age of 8 or 9!  It was blustery cold as the wind whipped over the hill, and this deepened our reflection and appreciation of what it must have been like for the ...
Read more

South Dakota

Image
4/21/23:  I write from a Super 8, where we'll be for two nights, after staying in a hotel last night, too.  This is luxury at its height!  Hot showers that require neither inserting quarters every 3 minutes nor walking 100 yards from the camper to the campground bathroom...Life is good. Today was a travel day, but tomorrow we'll see Wind Caves National Park, the Crazy Horse Memorial, and Mount Rushmore. 5/10/23: Looks like I neither finished nor published that post.  I can tell you now that all three South Dakota stops were cool.  The Black Hills are sacred lands to a number of Native tribes.  In fact, Wind Caves are believed to be where humans were created.  The Crazy Horse Memorial , conceived of by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, is very cool.  In addition to a monstrous blasting project that will eventually create the sculpture below coming out of a mountain 6500+ ft above sea level. Here's the progress thus far as seen through some lig...
Read more