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Originally Posted by minn19
Lups any updates on how you and the family are doing?
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Originally Posted by Onesie
Did they catch the COVID?
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Originally Posted by minn19
Too be honest not sure if they caught it or if it was a close contact exposure from family.
Edit: Just reread her post and her son did catch it.
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Oh indeed we had covid, which in our household meant milk rationing and while the only one who was tested positive showed no symptoms, it was scary. Millions have died, and while J has had his brain and heart repeatedly scanned due to his microtia as an infant, we've all seen the news on how it attacks basically any organ, we don't know all of his are okay, microtia has his ways and I'm a mom, it was scary.
So the quarantine time was strange: "Mom are you really old enough to have watched new movies with Bruce Willis while he still had hair ?" "Mom, I'm seriously trying to explain this at the seventh grade level, how can you cook if you understand no chemistry at all?" "Mom. I have to apologise to you cuz dad told me to do so. While the subject is easy for me, I shouldn't assume I can explain 7th grade physics and chemistry to a 39 year old. I'm going to stick to lessons I've been provided and today we are learning 5th grade history! This is so cool Mom, I studied a ton cuz you're a history fan and now I can tell you all about it at 5 am while you're trying to drink coffee (k, the last sentence may have not been a direct quote)".
So basically... I have kept my strong pacifist stance, but I admit the quarantine was not pleasant. The vaccine for the young was approved here last week for those with health issues and for those with close contact with people with health issues. While we have two cancer patients in the close family, and I seriously wanted to get my boys shot (not a typo necessarily), thankfully I remembered that we can keep our distance a bit longer and scheduled them for the Christmas rush, which will give us all more time away from my mom too. Also, there are truly sicker kids and with sicker family members who need it more urgently.
But I'm really fucking angry still guys. Our covid numbers are shooting up, and since the elderly have been vaccinated, and while we adults wear masks, I keep thinking that the worst I had to endure while fully vaccinated was a kid with one ear, once again postponed surgery and him asking me again and again if he was the one who brought it to their school, and is he responsible for his classmate losing a grandpa.
Well, as I told him then, we've done our best and we will continue with the effort, and get him the shot too, his younger brother will get one earlier since he was negative all the way through our quarantine.
"Well Mom, did I kill him?"
No, honey, you've done exactly what you've been told to do. At this point this is us adults just fucking up everything.