Today we’re supposed to be celebrating Christmas with my in-laws, but we can’t go over until we get my husband’s PCR results. He took the test on Wednesday at 3:40pm so he should be getting the results back soon.
Our daughter’s best friend is in New York visiting family and she just tested positive. Well, her rapid PCR came back positive but her at-home antigen test came back negative. We’re a lot less trusting of the two negatives we’ve gotten for my husband since we heard that. I thought they were supposed to pick up positives when symptoms are present pretty consistently. Now I don’t know what to think.
It will suck if my husband is positive and we have to cancel our Christmas. The kids will really be bummed out. But eventually it will be okay. Mostly I’m worried about not seeing my sister for the end of her trip. That would really bum me out.
We shall see. My husband is pretty miserable with whatever he has, and I’m really hoping I don’t get it because I don’t want to spend the next week as sick as he’s been this week. He’s had this for five days now and no one else has gotten it yet. I hope that holds.
I can’t believe we didn’t get one week between our kids being fully vaccinated and omicron taking over. Not one week. The timing really was impecable. I feel like I was robbed of something I didn’t even realize I needed. But now it’s gone, and I have to manage all these complicated feelings of grief when it’s hard to recognize what exactly I’m grieving the loss of, since I never really had the thing I feel like I lost. Of course I appreciate not having to be as concerned about what now feels like my kids inevitable exposure and contraction of the virus. Very appreciative. But still, we were promised a respite in the form of fully vaccinated kids and we got the opposite and I’m so tired. So, so tired.
Blerg. I’m ready for this holiday to be over. It feels like it will be a miracle if we make it make it through the next two weeks without getting Covid. This is not what I expected for this holiday season, or for the new year.
UPDATE: We’re still in limbo, waiting for a test result we may not get before even tomorrow. I feel stupid for having faith in a system that has so far worked, but that I know is primed to break down in the coming month, and this weekend especially. Of course results are taking longer. Of course we should have expected as much. And so we’re wasting an entire day waiting for an email that might never arrive. I feel horrible for my husband and his parents, who graciously offered my side of the family Christmas Day. Now they will get nothing for themselves but this interminable wait. Thank god for video games or my kids would be on their third meltdown of the day.
UPDATED UPDATE: He got his test results back! NEGATIVE! We’re heading over to spend a couple hours with my in-laws. So glad we can be there for a bit today.
SO MUCH SUPPORT AND FINGERS CROSSED re your husband’s results!
Hope you and children do not catch whatever your husband has been having.
Fingers crossed for all of us in truth. January looks like a long isolated month.
Double masking with n95 and hoping …. Tired of being scared!
THANK YOU FOR WRITING. Hope your Christmas goes well and you can see your family and sister especially.
Also thinking of you + your husband.
And you’re so right, the joy of “my kids are vaxed!” (even though for me, only 2/3 are old enough) was like 5 seconds. #(*&#$ sad.
I may be entering the unhinged phase of the pandemic.
Thanks. We expected his results so long ago and now we’re thinking of Plan B (if we don’t get his results before 3pm today) or Plan C (it comes back positive). At this point I would just really appreciate knowing. My poor husband feels awful. He was so careful for so long and he attempts to resume social activities for one weekend and he ruins Christmas (or so it feels to him). Even if his result is negative, the damage has been done.
My kids were fully vaxxed (two weeks after their second shot) on 12/18, and on 12/19, my vaxxed and boosted husband tested positive. Christmas is ruined at our house and we had to cancel our travel plans. I’m over all of this and grieving once again for normal times.
I’m so sorry. We haven’t even talked about what we are going to do if my husband’s test comes back positive. Ugh. But at least we don’t have travel plans. I’m sorry your Christmas is ruined.
HOPE there is no hospital stay coming. Canceling travel and family plans is VERY hard. Lucky your children are old enough to understand and be grateful he had done the shots and should improve. Fingers crossed the children and you escape without getting sick. Please up date us, we do care very much. Wishing you magic and love on Christmas and a healthy new year!
I am so tired of those who choose to not vaccinate and do not care about others.
Why would there be a hospital stay? He’s vaxxed and boosted and young
In my highly vaxxed and boosted county there ARE vaxed and boosted people in the hospital with covid. IT SIMPLY DOES HAPPEN even to young and healthy people..
It just seemed unnecessarily negative. If the expectation is that young and healthy vaxxed and boosted people will wind up in the hospital then be prepared to live in a crisis state for decades.
My SIL (triple vaccinated) has COVID so no travel for us. Local family had an exposure on Tuesday and still want to do Christmas so we have spent about an hour debating what we would need to see her and the other family members who want her to be included. And now there are a two fire trucks across the street. Looks like the fire was not bad but we freaked out when we saw them opening the hydrant. Christmas Eve is so far from being magical I kind of just want to cancel everything.
I should have started with, I’m really sorry about your testing situation AND that your husband is sick. Fingers crossed for you guys.
https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1474514977650196480
12/24/21 update on covid in SF
he is chief of medicine UCSF…… Reliable expert.
Congrats on the negative test! My sister & her husband were not able to join us today because they caught COVID….but at least my parents were able to make it. Hope you had a great day today!