I think I had it when I got back from my cruise to Hawaii on February 12. Went to bed with exhaustion and a mild cough, thinking I was getting a cold. No fever BUT I take Elderberry supplement with Vitamin C and ZINC. When I think I am getting a cold I pop those suckers like candy. I was eating about 4 + per day so maybe that helped me stave off a major attack. 4 days later DH ran a 103 degree fever for 2 days then gradually recovered. DS1 had a bad cough, while DS2 and future DIL had 103+ fevers and bad coughs. I have wondered if we all had it then as well. DH called the doctor who told us without seeing us that pneumonia like symptoms and inability to breath were the virus symptoms and we did not have it. However, I wonder if a lot of people got it in a mild form, but weren't tested so didn't know they had it. I am interested in the antibody test to see if we had it. A lot of people that are testing positive are not showing symptoms while some people that have it are having very mild symptoms. Who knows?
Sorry about your ewe, I know it was coming, but it still is sad. So now you have to wear a mask in public. It is encouraged here, so we do. I had a couple of those n95 masks from cleaning the barn. I found a 4 pack of masks that I kept for when we clean out the barn. I gave one to our daughter and a zip lock bag to keep it in. The post office uses an orange smelling disinfectant that makes my chemical issues flare up. Now my durned mask smells like it, blech. Maybe i'll air it out in the sun tomorrow. My luck, a bird would probably poop on it.Had our prolapsed ewe put down today. The gentleman from dead animal pickup said that effective tomorrow everyone MUST wear masks in public per mayor or get a fine! Time to make masks I suppose.
Sadly, FDIL got the news about her grandfather who is in the hospital ICU with Covid. He is 80 years old and had tuberculosis in his youth in the Philippines. He also has other scarring in his lungs from bouts of pneumonia and some fibrosis in the lungs too. The doctors have said that he is terminal, and can never breath again without a ventilator. Although he is on the ventilator now the doctor said he is in a great deal of pain just trying to breathe. The family can't even go to see him and the priest can't go to give him the last rites. Devastating news. He is a very sweet man and was looking forward to FDIL and DS2 getting married. It would have been the first wedding among FDIL's siblings and they were planning to have a baby right away. FDIL wanted her grandfather to be able to hold his first great grandchild. Our whole family is crushed by this news. Also the family can't go to the hospital to be with him as he dies. Normally we would all get together to pray with the family, now maybe not even be able to have the rosary or funeral mass.
