I have a Temperature...what happens to the DCs if my test is positive

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks all. I still have a fever and am tired but no other symptoms. I have a medical directive and a will/trust. I don’t know who to ask about the kids since they may also be infected and so I don’t want to expose an entire other family or put someone on the spot by asking them. My Beat Friend has a high risk kid and I don’t know many single or childless people very well.

Your 14 year old should be fine holding down the fort. It just is what it is, in such an emergency as that. In the very unlikely event that you were hospitalized, your best friend could do a daily drive by the house, just to have the teenager pop outside and give a thumbs up as a status check. And of course he could face time you as needed for check ins as well.

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See if you can get kids tested too.

Sorry, OP, good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Figure out now who will take in your kids if you do get sicker. Make a call and offer to be their back-up for their kids once you recover. You will be able to focus on fighting the infection if you know who will do this if things get worse and you need hospitalization. Make sure you write down on paper where things are (wills, list of accounts, etc). Do you have someone in your family who have given authority to make medical decisions for you or act as your legal authority in case you are hospitalized? There are online documents if you don't have medical directives, etc - would do this as well and let the people know what you would want. It helps them if they know what you want and don't have to guess what you would want.

Does everything have to be quid pro? OP has an emergent need and I would do everything to help if a friend or neighbor asked nothing expected in return

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I called the pediatrician and they said they would have to be driven to be tested (by me or someone else) so best to wait for my test results and not put us all in a car together unless they start developing symptoms.

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We all had covid back in late March. Once the first person tested positive we didn’t isolate from that person as we had already been exposed. We then all got tested and were positive. We kept on with our daily lives. Children continued online school. We worked from home. Life was exactly the same.

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Anonymous wrote:We all had covid back in late March. Once the first person tested positive we didn’t isolate from that person as we had already been exposed. We then all got tested and were positive. We kept on with our daily lives. Children continued online school. We worked from home. Life was exactly the same.

You were lucky. That is not everyone’s story...as we reach close to 100,000 dead. Those 45-64 have a made up more than 20% of those deaths and 4% were 18-44, I don’t like those statistics.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all had covid back in late March. Once the first person tested positive we didn’t isolate from that person as we had already been exposed. We then all got tested and were positive. We kept on with our daily lives. Children continued online school. We worked from home. Life was exactly the same.

You were lucky. That is not everyone’s story...as we reach close to 100,000 dead. Those 45-64 have a made up more than 20% of those deaths and 4% were 18-44, I don’t like those statistics.

Only 4.5 percent of covid deaths are patients under 65 with no preexisting conditions.
Overall covid death rate for 50 year olds: 1.3 percent.
40 year olds: 0.4 percent.
30 and 20 year olds: 0.2 percent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all had covid back in late March. Once the first person tested positive we didn’t isolate from that person as we had already been exposed. We then all got tested and were positive. We kept on with our daily lives. Children continued online school. We worked from home. Life was exactly the same.

You were lucky. That is not everyone’s story...as we reach close to 100,000 dead. Those 45-64 have a made up more than 20% of those deaths and 4% were 18-44, I don’t like those statistics.

Honestly, how is that helpful at all to OP? Let’s send positive thoughts that way!

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Anonymous wrote:I am a divorced mom (Dad out of the picture). I have been washing my hands religiously and using Clorox wipes on everything. I am worried about the infecting them and forget distance learning, I could barely get out of bed this morning. My DS is 14 so they are capable enough to make cereal, PB&J and I order takeout for dinner. But I am concerned that it will get worse or one of them will get sick and how will I take care of them. We obviously can’t bring anyone in.

Good lord, a 14 year old should be able to cook a simple meal, clean the house, mow lawn, do all family laundry. Inexcusable that your child is so helpless.

As for your other problems, contact family or friends. If you have coronavirus, however, then your child has probably also been infected.

I hope that you are all right.

[Anonymous]

Consider having your children bring you all your food on disposable plates/cutlery so they aren’t handling your dirty dishes. If you throw everything in a trash bag and leave outside room they can just put in trash can and then wash hands.

I think the risk to them is fairly low and they may already be exposed but I think it’s worth trying to isolate. I have a 14 yr old and he’s responsible but clueless about most house stuff and I think he’d be okay if he had to hold down the fort with takeout delivery, groceries, etc...I would just check in a lot on FaceTime.

[Anonymous]

Your 14 year old should be able to handle this, even if you’re hospitalized. Have a friend come by the house a couple of times per day to check in. Takeout delivery.

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How old are the younger siblings?

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OP, how are you and the family doing?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a divorced mom (Dad out of the picture). I have been washing my hands religiously and using Clorox wipes on everything. I am worried about the infecting them and forget distance learning, I could barely get out of bed this morning. My DS is 14 so they are capable enough to make cereal, PB&J and I order takeout for dinner. But I am concerned that it will get worse or one of them will get sick and how will I take care of them. We obviously can’t bring anyone in.

Good lord, a 14 year old should be able to cook a simple meal, clean the house, mow lawn, do all family laundry. Inexcusable that your child is so helpless.

As for your other problems, contact family or friends. If you have coronavirus, however, then your child has probably also been infected.

I hope that you are all right.

LMAO...my DH seems incapable of these tasks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all had covid back in late March. Once the first person tested positive we didn’t isolate from that person as we had already been exposed. We then all got tested and were positive. We kept on with our daily lives. Children continued online school. We worked from home. Life was exactly the same.

You were lucky. That is not everyone’s story...as we reach close to 100,000 dead. Those 45-64 have a made up more than 20% of those deaths and 4% were 18-44, I don’t like those statistics.

Only 4.5 percent of covid deaths are patients under 65 with no preexisting conditions.
Overall covid death rate for 50 year olds: 1.3 percent.
40 year olds: 0.4 percent.
30 and 20 year olds: 0.2 percent

There is a lot of space between carrying on regular life and being dead. You can be very sick and still survive.