COVID HIT US!

 

Well, 2020 wouldn't be complete without getting COVID, right? Thursday night, the boys went to play some basketball on an outdoor court because the internet was out at our house.  When they got home Kory went to sleep and slept for several hours.  This isn't unusual behavior for Kory.  Friday, the boys got up for online school, but then Kory just slept.  After school, he slept some more.  He had a little cough, but nothing big.  Friday, December 4th we went to the gym as a family.  We hadn't been in a while and decided we were going to begin going to they gym again.  It felt good to be back.  We went to the store afterward, got chicken burgers for dinner and then showered and went to bed.  That night I noticed my body was achy, but I just figured it was because we'd gone to the gym.  Then, Saturday morning Trey had a basketball game.  I was still feeling achy and now my head was hurting and my throat.  Monty said his throat was hurting a little bit too, but we didn't really think much of it.  I noticed my throat started hurting a little worse, but at this point we weren't thinking anything of it.  Sunday, Kyle and Kory had their football banquet.  I still wasn't feeling good, and started to worry about going back to school the following day.  After all, 2020 is the year that you can't cough in public.  I went to the banquet and noticed I was feeling a little hot and tried to cough only when people clapped and things were loud.  When we got home I took my temperature and noticed I had a slight fever.  The next morning Trey woke up with a slight fever and complained about a sore throat.  We took him to get tested.  Two days later the results came back--POSITIVE.  We had to pull the boys out of school and everyone was placed on quarantine.  Trey is almost out of quarantine at this point, but Kyle started feeling symptoms a few days ago, so his 10 days begins from then.  I've been sick for about 2 weeks now.  Starting to get back some energy, but still have a lingering cough.  Everyone has a lingering dry cough.  But, we do have people we know who have died from COVID, so we count our blessings that no one has been seriously ill in our family as a result.  Tomorrow I will leave the house for the first time in over 10 days.  I need to buy Makai some birthday gifts and pick up some supplies from Makai's school for the week after Christmas break when they are doing remote learning.  The plus side is that we shouldn't have to quarantine again since we've all had COVID at this point.  But, we shall see.  Who knows what the guidelines will be in a week.  Cases are going up so things could become more strict. They do have a vaccine that they are rolling out.  I'm not thrilled with the idea of getting it--we don't even get the flu shot, but I'm pretty sure they are going to make us, so I sure hope there aren't any crazy side effects.  I don't trust new vaccines.