Friday around lunchtime I got the call we’ve been dreading. My son’s 3rd grade class had a positive COVID exposure and his entire class has to quarantine for 2 weeks. My husband picked him up from school early. Of course they can’t tell us who it was, but my son thinks it’s his best friend because he’s been absent since Wednesday.
Friday evening my son was feeling sick to his stomach then started vomiting. Saturday morning he was still vomiting, despite trying clear liquids then ice chips then NPO. I took him to the ER and had him tested. My 9 year old has COVID.
He’s quarantined to his bedroom, bathroom, and his brother’s room (brother is in the Army, at basic training, so he uses his computer for schoolwork). I am fully vaccinated but my high-risk husband has only had one dose of his Pfizer.
I need good thoughts and prayers and all that stuff.
My son is worried about his friend and now about himself since we lost my uncle to COVID in December, but he’s feeling much better physically. I can’t let my concern show because my son and husband would BOTH panic. My son is VERY smart and perceptive and my husband has a-fib, diabetes, and is a cancer survivor (all diagnosed within 3 months of each other!) so he’s on edge.
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Warm salt water gargles, lying on his stomach and Vicks steam inhalations help too! Hope things calm down! Be positive! He will soon be negative by the Grace of God!
And he had a nasty nosebleed the other night. He gets them a good bit, but this one took a while to stop (good thing I work ENT!) so I’m all up in his face, helping him hold pressure, and he’s trying to grab my hand with his bloody germy hands because I’m putting more pressure on than he’d like. Ugh. LOL.
Friday around lunchtime I got the call we’ve been dreading. My son’s 3rd grade class had a positive COVID exposure and his entire class has to quarantine for 2 weeks. My husband picked him up from school early. Of course they can’t tell us who it was, but my son thinks it’s his best friend because he’s been absent since Wednesday.
Friday evening my son was feeling sick to his stomach then started vomiting. Saturday morning he was still vomiting, despite trying clear liquids then ice chips then NPO. I took him to the ER and had him tested. My 9 year old has COVID.
He’s quarantined to his bedroom, bathroom, and his brother’s room (brother is in the Army, at basic training, so he uses his computer for schoolwork). I am fully vaccinated but my high-risk husband has only had one dose of his Pfizer.
I need good thoughts and prayers and all that stuff.
My son is worried about his friend and now about himself since we lost my uncle to COVID in December, but he’s feeling much better physically. I can’t let my concern show because my son and husband would BOTH panic. My son is VERY smart and perceptive and my husband has a-fib, diabetes, and is a cancer survivor (all diagnosed within 3 months of each other!) so he’s on edge.
Just trying to maintain my sanity!
Wishing you all the best thoughts in the world and hopefully everything will be fine. I would suggest that you let your training kick in and take over the household with all the necessary precautions. Don't take any backchat from your husband or anyone. Put your training into gear!
spotangel, DNP, RN, NP
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Warm salt water gargles, lying on his stomach and Vicks steam inhalations help too! Hope things calm down! Be positive! He will soon be negative by the Grace of God!