And now, it’s Garry’s turn. He got up, did a telephone visit with the doctor, got his prescription for paxlovid, instructed to take mine until his come home with Owen later. Then, I put him back to bed.
I knew he was sick. He had a deep, wracking cough, sore throat, scratchy eyes, clogged ears, achey all over. I just was having a lot of trouble getting the test right. The instructions are not very specific and I can’t help but think for all the gazillion dollars these tests cost, couldn’t they have hired a qualitied tech writer to put together coherent instructions? We aren’t the most expensive hirees and I’m sure I would do a much better job. I couldn’t do a worse one.
Be that as it may, I finally got a positive test result for Garry late last night. He is asleep. I’ve had it for four days already and have yet to sleep late. Oh well. At least I know he’s getting what he needs and hopefully, time will take care of the rest.
If I’m slow to post, that’s why.
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Take care and take it easy.
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I think this time, he doesn’t have a choice 😀
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We are sending all the healing love we can find, hoping you both get better as soon as possible… XX
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Thank you!! FINALLY, I got a really good night’s sleep and feel a lot better this morning than yesterday. Garry will get better. We’re just older and it takes longer to rebound.
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This is one of things about being old that really doesn’t sit well. Glad you’re feeling better, Garry will be next!
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Oh, I hope you both recover quickly from this. All the best. Prayers for you both
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Thank you. I don’t know about quickly because we don’t do anything quickly anymore but I’m happy to settle for slowly but surely. So far, very good 😀
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That’s good to know. 🥹
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I had a feeling it was coming, deep rest and healing to both of you
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Thanks! I pretty much expected it too. We’ll be okay. We just have to take it easy.
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Feel better soon — all of you!
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We’ve been sicker than this, though not recently. We used to get the flu every year and often pneumonia afterward. This isn’t nearly that bad, but we are older. Mostly, we need to take it easy.
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Hopefully, you can all heal together.
Thank you for all the advice on Paxlovid and now on the testing instructions. How much longer can Covid go on?!
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Indefinitely unless everyone gets vaccinated — AND they make the vaccine longer laster so that you can at least go a year between vaccinations — like you do for the regular flu. The FLU is leftover from the big WWI COVID epidemic. That flu — the original — killed more people in the U.S. than the war. Ironically, so did THIS round of COVID. We really don’t deal well with epidemics and we really ought to know better.
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Well now you are all recovering and no longer have to wonder. Hope you are continuing to improve and that Garry joins you in a prompt recovery. Having used a number of different rapid tests, I agree that the directions are of variable quality. Add to that the person taking the test has a good chance of being I’ll and having a harder than usual time deciphering the directions, a good tech writer matters! Best healing wishes to all of you
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I’m a pretty good understander of anything written and I didn’t understand more than half the directions. They might as well been in Spanish or Urdu. Even the pictures weren’t clear. Anyway, I was more than a little sure that the problem was my not being entirely sure what I needed to do.
Anyway, we are sick, but not deathly ill. IF we don’t get a rebound and no neither of us gets worse, it’s just taking it easy and taking the TIME to heal. We had to cancel a lot of medical stuff and while I had to make new appointments, I feel very crowded and I think I need to push back a lot of these. Everyone seems to be in a hurry, but we need some time to get over this without being pushed. All I need to do is convince the rest of the world 😀
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A couple of times when I did the home tests, people cautioned me to go carefully step by step because the instructions were not too clear. No kidding! I did not have it but I had terrible flu when I returned from Manila. I did not get sick for years because we all stayed home and washed our hands a lot.
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Owen got it from someone at work and brought it home. We didn’t go out and get it. And those instructions are really BAD.
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I got the free ones at Walgreens when we could get 8 of them. I have used three so far.
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We got 16 free ones from our pharmacy. These are the third tests I’ve gotten and I didn’t understand the instructions clearly on ANY of them. And remember, I AM a technical writer!
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Take care both of you.
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I keep trying, but every place with whom we had to cancel appointments this week seems to want us to show up next week and I feel very pressured. I need them to lay off and let us heal in our own time. They do not get the whole “retirement” thing.
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You really need a couple of weeks to get over it and be sure you are not infectious.
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I know. Now, all I have to do is convince the REST of the world.
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Take care
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As best we can, we are. So far, so good.
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