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It was Covid.
Jun. 28th, 2022 08:09 pmSo I was getting sick Saturday night. And Sunday afternoon Kip tested, and it was Covid.
So first thing Monday I called the doctor's office and first they fobbed me off with the phone nurse, like that was going to get me help in any reasonable time so I left a message and then called the appointment folks again and pointed out that the phone nurse message says it might be three days before they get back to me and Kip and I are still in the window for Paxlovid, but only if we act TODAY so should we come in to the walk-in clinic or what? and the receptionist said she'd give me a drive through appointment at 3 pm.
So at 3 pm we packed our sick selves into the hot car and drove to the office only to discover the receptionist had not put us in the system at all but this time the receptionist said she gave us an appointment for 4 and 4:15 pm, so we drove home to lie around for 20 minutes and then drive back. We took Kip's positive test and an unused test kit for me (and thanks to the Biden administration--and to everybody who pushed them--for those tests, by the way) and all our insurance info and the lot.
It turned out they did want to test me but were okay with me using the home test kit in the car, which saved us some time. I wasn't sure if it would show positive, since I had only been sick 2 days, but it did. They took our vitals as best they could in the car and looked at our positives and said "yep, Covid" and prescribed Paxlovid, and since they thought our usual pharmacy didn't have curbside delivery, called it in to the local Walgreens.
We got to Walgreens and they didn't have Kip's prescription ready and hadn't received mine at all but they'd only gotten Kips 2 minutes before we arrived, so we decided to go home and go back just before 8pm, and then pick up the groceries we'd ordered online in our time slot of 8-9pm. That worked, except they said there was an insurance problem with mine, because they hadn't figured out the insurance card we gave them the first time applied to both of us. We got that sorted out, picked up the groceries, came home and took our first dose.
Plaxlovid leaves this low level annoying bad taste, but on the other hand, my fever broke last night and my head stopped hurting so much, so now I just have this hacking cough and sore throat. I also feel up to some light cleaning and re-organizing; not all that I wanted to do in the last 2 days but better than nothing. The weather was cool enough that I opened the windows and aired out the house for a good portion of the day, on the assumption that getting the Covid air out of the house wouldn't hurt and might help.
I reported Kips and my positive tests to the Health Department only to be told they are no longer tracking Covid data so there's that.
I've talked to my dad and my brother about how we will handle this if we're not both testing negative by the time they arrive (rental car and motel, basically)
So first thing Monday I called the doctor's office and first they fobbed me off with the phone nurse, like that was going to get me help in any reasonable time so I left a message and then called the appointment folks again and pointed out that the phone nurse message says it might be three days before they get back to me and Kip and I are still in the window for Paxlovid, but only if we act TODAY so should we come in to the walk-in clinic or what? and the receptionist said she'd give me a drive through appointment at 3 pm.
So at 3 pm we packed our sick selves into the hot car and drove to the office only to discover the receptionist had not put us in the system at all but this time the receptionist said she gave us an appointment for 4 and 4:15 pm, so we drove home to lie around for 20 minutes and then drive back. We took Kip's positive test and an unused test kit for me (and thanks to the Biden administration--and to everybody who pushed them--for those tests, by the way) and all our insurance info and the lot.
It turned out they did want to test me but were okay with me using the home test kit in the car, which saved us some time. I wasn't sure if it would show positive, since I had only been sick 2 days, but it did. They took our vitals as best they could in the car and looked at our positives and said "yep, Covid" and prescribed Paxlovid, and since they thought our usual pharmacy didn't have curbside delivery, called it in to the local Walgreens.
We got to Walgreens and they didn't have Kip's prescription ready and hadn't received mine at all but they'd only gotten Kips 2 minutes before we arrived, so we decided to go home and go back just before 8pm, and then pick up the groceries we'd ordered online in our time slot of 8-9pm. That worked, except they said there was an insurance problem with mine, because they hadn't figured out the insurance card we gave them the first time applied to both of us. We got that sorted out, picked up the groceries, came home and took our first dose.
Plaxlovid leaves this low level annoying bad taste, but on the other hand, my fever broke last night and my head stopped hurting so much, so now I just have this hacking cough and sore throat. I also feel up to some light cleaning and re-organizing; not all that I wanted to do in the last 2 days but better than nothing. The weather was cool enough that I opened the windows and aired out the house for a good portion of the day, on the assumption that getting the Covid air out of the house wouldn't hurt and might help.
I reported Kips and my positive tests to the Health Department only to be told they are no longer tracking Covid data so there's that.
I've talked to my dad and my brother about how we will handle this if we're not both testing negative by the time they arrive (rental car and motel, basically)
