(covid-19, f&f, travel)

[elainegrey]

** From Sunday **

Rumor has it someone i sat with on Thursday and assisted between sessions tested positive for COVID on Wednesday. So either i assumed the wrong person from the first name, the person informing me had the date wrong, or what i can't believe is the person returned to the conference. I've sent a message off to the conference address you were to send to if you felt sick. I'm going to assume exposure, which i guess means moving my COVID jab? It's Friday -- maybe if i test negative on Wed, Thurs, and Fri?

And now i receive: "We asked attendees to alert us if they tested positive while on-site so we could alert other attendees but we didn’t receive any such information. ... We are sorry that there was an unconfirmed rumor going around – please be assured that we would have alerted people that someone had informed us of a positive test!"

So I dunno.

Meanwhile, we need more tests as Christine wants to visit her sister A-- who was in a motorized wheelchair wreck, was given an overdose of opioids, and now has some terrible kidney issue and is in ICU. I'm getting this n-th hand. The wreck was outside and A-'s husband realized something was wrong because of how their cats reacted. This is her sister who is 17 or 18 years older than she is. Christine is worried, and wants to help and visit, and is trying her best with parsing her niece's responses.

Comments

[amaebi]

Yowza.

You know about this, right? https://www.covid.gov/tests

[elainegrey]

Christine had mentioned free from somewhere, but the state's free program is not as easy as this. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

[annie_r]

hoping you are continuing to test negative :(

[elainegrey]

At the very least, i feel i should test negative. I will start a series of tests tonight.

[weofodthignen]

I really hope the rumor was false ... and failing that, that you dodged infection.

Poor A! That sounds absolutely dreadful. My very best wishes to her for a full recovery.

[elainegrey]

It's hard to believe the person who told me was untrustworthy, but rumors are rumors.

A was to have gone home last night. It would have been late: they live about an hour away from the hospital and the first transport was 9:30 pm. But i'm sure a night in ones own home is worth it.

[tamena]

contact your GP for tests, they sent us home with 3 boxes (and there's 12 tests in a box!)
I hope it all turns out to be nothing

[elainegrey]

That's a lot of tests!

I don't want to stock up too much and have tests i won't use. When my sister came down with COVID i went through my boxes i had gotten through various free programs and even with the extended expiration there were a few boxes expired.

I imagine you will make good use of them, making sure your circle of family stays tested and safe.

[tamena]

everyone knows we have them and all come here to get them if needed (including multiple neighbors!)