whiny Wednesday

[ironymaiden]

C has covid. it's the first time either of us has tested positive. his symptoms aren't too bad and he got on Paxlovid right away. he started feeling poorly on Sunday and tested positive on Monday. i'm not really able to isolate from him (nor do i want to); i'm testing every 48 hours per CDC guidelines and remain negative.

anyway, we had gamers over on Friday night and mimerki on Saturday; while i am worried about C i've been more upset that we might have made someone else sick after literal years of effort. i've been a wreck the past few days - every bit of pandemic-related trauma is back in the front of my mind. first time in a long while that i've thought about my father being locked into a nursing home, for example. and then there's C flinching every time i touch him.

today i mapped out dates for my next test and when C will be cleared for human interaction. using the conservative number of days and assuming i don't get sick, we can still see people on Thanksgiving. colonialism aside, it is my favorite holiday and something i look forward to every year. my birthday is earlier in the week and i only understood today ...it's going to be the third one isolated in our apartment.

C is doing well enough to handle one short dog walk a day. i'm doing everything else; I realized that this is the second day in a row that i did the morning walk and got to work on time because I didn't take a shower.