RIP Betty White
I started a blog at the end of last week. It was melancholy and sad. I liked it, I have no idea where it went. So now I type on Word and I’ll move it when I’m done. I don’t always write all at once. I guess I’m lucky I only had a few paragraphs.
It all started NYE when I awoke to the terrible news that Betty White had died. I admit I was weepy and emotional all day. Not just about that, lots of things were setting me off. Videos, songs on the radio, talking to the kids. Some if it is due to losing someone that embodied nearly a century of shared memories, I’m sure.
Some of it is pandemic fatigue. We do what we can, there. I took Middle Child to get a first dose (on NYE). Afterward he was in the other room with our youngest making a happy racket for the evening. A sore arm for a day and a half and all was well.
Last Sunday Little Beast (our youngest) got her first dose and I got my booster. Once the 2 youngest have their 2nd doses, we’ll be less anxious about possible exposure. We’re still going to be careful, but hopefully we now have a much nicer buffer.
The morning before and morning of my booster I woke up with a sore throat. I didn’t really think anything of it because the dry air has been doing that since we got here. Sometimes I wake up with a sore throat and Elder Spawn and I get random nosebleeds when it’s dry.
The same happened the following day. I didn’t even think about it because the steam from the shower made it go away. Neither day did I have any other signs of symptoms of illness. I did have a sore arm that day (Sunday), which wasn’t as bad as my first 2 doses. Very mild and I didn’t get swollen lymph nodes this time. The following 2 days were similar.
Between Monday and Friday I woke up with a sore throat that went away during the day and other than being a little tired on Friday, felt fine. I bought a sofa on Wednesday and a dining table on Thursday. Masked of course, thankfully.
Friday I made a big dinner (brisket/latkes) and my energy crashed- hard and fast- right when plating and I was wiped for the whole weekend. I lost my voice almost entirely Saturday and part of Sunday. Using my inhalers burned. Monday was better with my voice. My throat didn’t really hurt unless I tried to force talking. I wasn’t able to use my inhaler until Tuesday night.
BC health self-assessment told me since my symptoms are mild and I’m fully vaccinated, that I should isolate for 5 days. I tried to call to verify, but the phone directed me to the main website for BC health. I went there, and on the section that didn’t have the assessment, it says to not bother testing but isolate for 10 days. I think the website was out of date. But, in there, nothing told me what to do about the rest of the family who may be exposed. We’ve kept the kids home yesterday and today and plan to send them tomorrow if nobody else gets symptoms. Elder Spawn may have some that turned up yesterday, but it’s those wishy-washy “is it/isn’t it” symptoms that before Covid I’d have ignored.
Today is day 5 from when I realized I was sick, but probably day 10-11 of being sick? If all those days of sore throats were an illness. So presumably I’m safe to be around now since the symptoms were/are mild and I’m fully vaccinated (including booster). Even though I’m still intermittently coughing and they told me not to test. I talked to my NP today about prescriptions I need to be refilled and another medical issue, but mentioned being sick and feeling like I should test even though BC health says I don’t have to. She said something along the lines of “yeah, wild eh?” I could just have a wee cold. I could have Omicron. I guess we’ll never know.
Our house in Florida sold. We were checking our account for the wire today since yesterday was a holiday. Nothing. We called to see if we could get a time estimate and found the wire hadn’t been initiated yet, so that got a fire lit (we hope).
I’m still trying to find someone to build us a custom catio. I’ve had 2 people come out to measure and then they just… never got back to me. Hopefully now that the holidays and the snowpocalypse are over it will be easier.
