The other day my wife and I went to our local mom and pop pharmacy and got tested. The pharmacy came to our vehicle and we both swabbed. My wife, who is an X-ray tech, swabbed her nose quickly before I could watch her do it. She is a scaredy-cat when it comes to anything invasive. I, knowing the requirements because of my ER posting, jabbed my brain swabbing. My wife tells me she barely put it in and just twirled around the very beginning of the nares. After we get home my wife tells me that she had ordered home Covid tests and they arrived that morning. The pharmacy test would be atleast 24 hours before results are emailed. So I tell her we are doing the home tests and I will swab her. Needless to say both of our swabs came back positive. She has two vaccine doses and I have both and a booster. My symptoms have been a very very light flu’ish feeling. Wife’s symptoms are headache , mostly alleviated with advil. Had to get tested cause our grandson is one and cannot be vaccinated.
So now I’m wondering when I should go back to work. I called the nursing supervisor Friday morning when I did the home test and she believes that I can come back when I am no longer symptomatic and wear an N95 mask.
Does anyone else have any experience of when they went back to work post positive test? I work in the ER.
The other day my wife and I went to our local mom and pop pharmacy and got tested. The pharmacy came to our vehicle and we both swabbed. My wife, who is an X-ray tech, swabbed her nose quickly before I could watch her do it. She is a scaredy-cat when it comes to anything invasive. I, knowing the requirements because of my ER posting, jabbed my brain swabbing. My wife tells me she barely put it in and just twirled around the very beginning of the nares. After we get home my wife tells me that she had ordered home Covid tests and they arrived that morning. The pharmacy test would be atleast 24 hours before results are emailed. So I tell her we are doing the home tests and I will swab her. Needless to say both of our swabs came back positive. She has two vaccine doses and I have both and a booster. My symptoms have been a very very light flu’ish feeling. Wife’s symptoms are headache , mostly alleviated with advil. Had to get tested cause our grandson is one and cannot be vaccinated.
So now I’m wondering when I should go back to work. I called the nursing supervisor Friday morning when I did the home test and she believes that I can come back when I am no longer symptomatic and wear an N95 mask.
Does anyone else have any experience of when they went back to work post positive test? I work in the ER.