How we got where we are.

Positive

Last night, I had a scratchy throat and a bit of a general malaise. After I went to bed at midnight, I got the chills which lifted about 3:30 AM in the morning, but I still didn't sleep well. I got up around 8 but I went back to bed till 11 AM. When I got up, I felt a bit better and went looking for something in the medicine cabinet. I took a swig of DayQuill. My wife was helping me and she came across the Covid-19 test kit. "Well,", she said, "maybe you try it just to be sure. So I did.

Busted! The line under C says the test worked and the line under the T says, "you got it Dude." I went to Urgent Care (since it was a Saturday) and got a prescription for Paxlovid. Since I'd already taken a Lipitor that day, they told me to stop the Lipitor during the course of treatment and a few days after. So I won't start the Paxlovid till tomorrow.

Update: It now appears that I got it at our first choir practice. My daughter also got it along with the director and a bunch more. By Monday, I was feeling OK. After testing positive, my wife and I avoided each other and lived on separate floors. I rode down to the beach on Tuesday to secure the house for Idalia, spent one night and came back. It's Friday and I plan to go to work. So far my wife is symptom free. I tested before I went to work. Maybe a trace remains.