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Originally Posted by aephi alum
My husband has tested positive for COVID. I've tested negative.
We're sleeping in separate bedrooms, and masking up in our own home. My in-laws were visiting for the weekend - and they pretty much burned rubber driving away.
If y'all are the praying type - I'm a cancer survivor, husband is COVID positive, FIL is 80 and asthmatic, and MIL is 76.
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Around July 2020, I became convinced I wouldn't survive COVID. I was very depressed and wrote up a sheet for my kids titled "If I die" with all the things they needed to know. Then vaccines came and I got vaccinated right away. With emphysema AND being on immunosuppressants for my Crohn's Disease, I was still pretty anxious about getting COVID. I was still masking long after others stopped wearing them. I'd had my 6 vaccines (3 initial doses, 2 regular boosters then the bivalent booster) when I got COVID. I started on Paxlovid on the day I tested positive. It was very mild and within days I was testing negative. Then several days after the Paxlovid ended, I got the rebound that some get. I was pretty sick. There were a couple days my cough was scaring me but my pulse ox was still above 95. I got up and marched in place for several minutes every hour that I was awake. I sat up instead of laying down. I took Airborne gummies every day and continued my usual doses of Vitamin D3. I was fine about a week. I did lose some lung functioning but went to pulmonary rehab and got it back.
I say all this not to scare you, but to try to reassure you. I had so many high risk factors but I did everything I could and it worked out ok. I've had friends whose 80+ year old parents with multiple risk factors got it after being vaccinated and they took Paxlovid and they were ok without hospitalization. I know you've been really careful because I sent you masks early on! I hope that you don't get it, but if you do, get the Paxlovid and don't lay flat on your back and do everything you can to help your immune system fight it.
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