We are just wrapping up another round of COVID in my home. My wife and son contracted it. We attended a family wedding Friday before mother's day, and sure enough 3 days later, my son gets sick on Monday. Gets tested, positive. Wife and I go off to get tested, drive in the same car there and back. 1.5 hours later they call. She says you're negative. But my wife had it.
So they have been quarantined to their rooms and I've had to work, run the shuttle up and downstairs 30 times a day, making meals, taking vitamins and fluids and run the fort.
Typical symptoms. But it hit them a bit harder than my son last year. Youngest had mild fevers for 3 days, fatigue, turned into a sore throat, now just finishing up congestion. Wife has been the same essentially. They both slept alot.
They will be "released" today or tomorrow.
Here is what boggles my mind though....how I've not gotten it. Last year, son has it, I'm with him a lot for 3 days prior to testing positive. Then I would enter his room, hand over mouth to deliver food before I started just dropping it at his door. His room being next to mine, he'd have to go to the bathroom, enter our living area, before retreating. None of us got it.
Then this time. I'm at the same wedding. Met the same people. Hung out in the same circles as them. On Mothers Day, we go out to dinner. Son has soup he is halfway through and I reach over and eat a couple spoonfuls of his soup. 10 years ago he had strep throat and I ate from his soup and got strep 2 days later. I have been in one bedroom for the past week, them in rooms on opposite sides of me. Air conditioning is going, moving air throughout the house. I've retrieved their trays and their silverware and empty water bottles touching everything they did. I was not particularly steadfast about handwashing.
Yet nothing.
3 of 4 of us have had it. As highly contagious as it is, it certainly is very peculiar in its contagion.
I may go get an antibody test. Perhaps I've already had it and didn't know.
Final point. My oldest was home from college for a week and with us for the wedding. He's the one who had COVID last year. He also tested negative. Seems those internal antibodies work pretty well. He's been living the college life, partying, essentially maskless at school and hasn't contracted it again either.
Luckily now my wife and youngest will have natural immunity.
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