COVID ISO DAY 10

TESTING DAY 10.

We are both doing a RAT test today, to see where we are at.

I SHOULD test negative today, if all the information is correct.  It's 10 days since my first positive test, and I no doubt had the damn Covid a couple of days prior to that.  So, let's cross our fingers for a NEGATIVE today!

As for Stew, if he tests Negative today, he might have totally dodged the bullet.  But we can't breath easy on him yet, you can test Positive up to 2, 2 and a half weeks after contact with a positive person.

So... that's ALL I am planning on doing this morning.  

I'm guilty of forgetting to mention this, it was COCO'S birthday yesterday.  She turned 12.  She's doing well, she's not slowed down that much yet.  Just the occasional hick up when she gets stressed or over tired.

Oh, it was also my Dad's Birthday yesterday.  Dad would have been 88, but died aged 66.  Time sure in hell flies!  

Do you have any idea how HARD it is to blog when all you do all day is REST?  Pfffff.

AND... the results are in:

ABOVE:  WE are both NEGATIVE!

I am FREE!

Even though I still have all the symptoms, I no longer have Covid.  That's a bit weird, but never mind.

We are cautiously optimistic that Stew will continue to test Negative.  He's still sticking to his theory that taking Berocca every day has kept him from catching it.  Well, that and being vaccinated and being 'THE MAN'.  Yeah right.

Stew is already saying he's going back into the office tomorrow.  He'll have two days in the office, then next week, working from home again.

Me?  I will stay home today and probably tomorrow too.  Just to be safe.  I shall do very little, and hopefully in a couple more days I will actually start to FEEL better?  For now though, I'm going back to bed to REST.

ANON:  NO you are incorrect.  Lacy has been using a separate bathroom from Stew and I.   She is totally separate from us in every way.

We have closed off 'our' end of the house from her, we are NOT mixing and mingling at all.  

I have talked to her on the driveway, keeping a safe distance from her.

If she walks through the garage to use her bathroom, she spays air sanitiser all around her 'pathway'.  

We have taken EVERY precaution known to man in fact.

Now that I am NEGATIVE, I do not have to backtrack and start again because someone else has it in the house (Lacy).   Read up on it please, so you are better informed.  Thanks.

ABOVE:  My source of information.

LINE EYES???   I was like.... is there a faint line on my test?  I was a little bit like maybe?

So I took another test using Lacy's test kits, a different brand.

And YEAH.... there's a faint line still.  So, almost out of the woods, but not quite.  Home for a couple more days.

I am literally gobsmacked!

Our Government has just announced that Covid Positive people can leave isolation after only 7 days, effective midnight Friday.

Like WTF?  You are still POSITIVE on Day 7. 

So right, lets all go willy nilly out into the general population and spread COVID everywhere!

That is CRAZY.

Lacy is on Day 5 and her RAT test this morning was HUGELY POSITIVE!  Like a huge FAT RED LINE.

Why am I bothering to stay home now?  

SIMPLE.  I do not plan on giving this shit virus to ANYONE if I can help it.

This morning I did some more unpicking, and rearranged a few of those runners.

Then I got sick of doing that, so I went outside and chipped up more asphalt:

ABOVE:  This was the VERY tricky area... power and internet wires, water connection and a downpipe to work around.

ABOVE:  But I did it, and a bit more from around the bricks too.  The sun started killing me, so I stopped after that.

ABOVE:  The pile of chipped up asphalt grows bigger!  

I feel like the more I can remove from the 'tricky' places, the easier the job will be for the concrete company.

That is why I'm doing it.

I tried really hard to rest this afternoon, but my mind was ticking over with another job I wanted to do.

So I did it.  Not a biggie, just changing the gate in the dogs garage pen, so it now has a bigger gate that I can get the laundry trolley through now.

Photos tomorrow.

For now, I'm thinking of what to do for dinner. 

And.... tonight we are having some Spaghetti Bolognese mix that I made and froze earlier this year, with noodles.  Easy peasy.

I am so happy with how much I got done today... more than I've done in over a week that's for sure.  I love it when I am productive. 

Near catastrophe! We were down to ONE bottle of Diet Coke in the fridge.  So, because he's symptom free and has done 10 days in Isolation, Stew went to the supermarket this evening.

We are now stocked up with Diet Coke and a few treats to last us a week or longer!

Stew said the supermarket shelves were quite empty!  Oh well... I'm sure we will survive.

You just have to adjust to what's available eh?

Signing off for the day .... looking forward to tomorrow, when life kinda gets back to normal for us.