Opinion: My dad’s covid-19 illness is mild. Many others aren’t so lucky.
in fact prefer retesting when possible and waiting for two negative results, 24 hours apart, before considering the patient safe. Just to be on the safe side, we took my father to get tested. I considered this a formality until the results came back positive.
My life is now divided into upstairs activities and downstairs activities. Eating toast is an upstairs activity.toast is, however, a downstairs activity. In between those activities, I have to put on or take off my hastily improvised PPE: a long dress that is worn only outside my room; a bandanna over my hair; an exercise mask and a surgical mask tied over that.When I come upstairs with my breakfast, all of this has to be removed, piece by piece, in proper order to minimize cross-contamination.
No one asked how we would get groceries, now that my sister and I are presumptively exposed and thus required to quarantine. No one tried to find out about the house layout or whether it was feasible for us to quarantine 500 miles from our homes for two weeksmy father’s case resolves. No one, including us, remembered that things one might ordinarily do to get ready for such a homecoming, like hiring movers to bring Dad’s bed upstairs, are temporarily impossible.
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