nancyd1024
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This is a little long so stick with me.since last week my 7 yo son and I have been battling allergies but at odd times - coughing, sneezing, headaches, the usual. Last Friday my guts started hurting and until Tuesday night I was keeping nothing in my system. I’m vaccinated BTW, but I was still nervous about possibly having a breakthrough infection ESPECIALLY after going to my neighbors house for a lighter to light up some citronella candles and finding out their 4/5 year old has COVID. The boy was all over the place and had been messing with the lighter all night - no one in their household is vaccinated and the mom questioned whether or not the tests were reliable bc “no symptoms and look at him running around like the energizer bunny!!!” Can’t remember why he had to be tested in the 1st place, but glad he was tested.
So I not even thinking about being around the kid decide it’s in my best interest to go get tested. Wednesday I felt like my appendix was about to burst so I finally gave in and went to Urgent Care. Not knowing if my symptoms or pain was some strange offshoot of a breakthrough infection - my asthma had kicked up, I was coughing, felt exhausted, body aches - I kept my 7 yo home from school til I got my results just in case.
I don’t remember at what point the lightbulb went on over my head, but it occurred to me Wednesday that I’d been around T - not super close, but there’s always that small possibility. School nurse said with no known direct contact with a positive case my son could return to school. Great, right? Later that afternoon - still waiting for COVID tests and found out pain was due to an intestinal infection - a neighbor kid (M)stops by to say that another neighbor kid (J) is being tested for COVID, or has COVID, and everyone is getting tested. Im thinking it’s because they had contact with (T) which means if one of them is positive then my son has had direct contact with a positive case meaning he’s on quarantine for a few more days.
I reached out to parent of (J) mentioning that I’d heard he was getting tested bc of (T), but mom says he had to be tested since getting a bad headache at school and having to be sent home since headache is on the list of COVID symptoms and can’t return til they have a negative test. I asked her to let me know the outcome so I can keep my son home or send back to school. No big deal, I just don’t want to potentially expose my sons school.
J was sent home on Tuesday and I assume he was tested that day. I got my results back late Wednesday night, but J’s mom hasn’t sent me results and I’m pretty sure we used the same testing site so now I’m totally perplexed as to whether or not she’s intentionally not sharing or what. My neighborhood is a hard split between political and economic differences so I can just imagine J’s mom refusing to help with contact tracing and so isn’t giving me any information either.
I reached out to M’s mom to see if she’d heard anything since it was her kid who took it upon himself to go around to all these houses telling everyone J has/might have COVID. The mom’s reply to me is standard issue “we have not been contacted by a local health department notifying us that M has come in to contact with a positive test case.. with no symptoms we have decided not to test M.” She works in a state agency in their HR working on COVID stuff - previous job was manager at a local fast food place - and I work in another state agency in HR and have given her lots of pointers as she’s struggled to get the ins and outs down. Still what kind of bullshit answer is that? My kid has been around all of these kids and I need to know WTF is happening. I’m on hard core pain meds and driving is just not an option so their stonewalling me is putting me in a difficult position.
His dad has NEVER taken him to a dr’a appointment and I don’t even know if he’d actually take him to be tested simply out of principle. He’s a flat earther, 5G hiss!!!!, no vaccination for me but smokes a lot, etc…. I’m at my wits end with these people and thankfully I’ve roped my mom in to taking my son to get tested since I’m not getting anything out of these other PIA’s.
These are the same people who see mask wearing mandates as a personal assault on their liberty, yet here are the rest of us caring about everyone and trying to get the rates down even though our own personal liberties are but secondary considerations to these adult babies getting their way.
I’m in pain, I’m exhausted, I’m doing this on my own trying not to expose my mom unnecessarily. I don’t care that none of your kids are showing symptoms I just need to know if my kid has been exposed. Maybe if you’ve read this small book I wrote you’ve got some insights. I suppose it’s a non issue once I get my son tested, but damn what is it with parents getting tight lipped? I’m not trying to start rumors I just want honest information. Anyone else had to deal with this level of unwillingness to share this sort of information? I think this may very well be what pushes me out of this neighborhood once and for all.
So I not even thinking about being around the kid decide it’s in my best interest to go get tested. Wednesday I felt like my appendix was about to burst so I finally gave in and went to Urgent Care. Not knowing if my symptoms or pain was some strange offshoot of a breakthrough infection - my asthma had kicked up, I was coughing, felt exhausted, body aches - I kept my 7 yo home from school til I got my results just in case.
I don’t remember at what point the lightbulb went on over my head, but it occurred to me Wednesday that I’d been around T - not super close, but there’s always that small possibility. School nurse said with no known direct contact with a positive case my son could return to school. Great, right? Later that afternoon - still waiting for COVID tests and found out pain was due to an intestinal infection - a neighbor kid (M)stops by to say that another neighbor kid (J) is being tested for COVID, or has COVID, and everyone is getting tested. Im thinking it’s because they had contact with (T) which means if one of them is positive then my son has had direct contact with a positive case meaning he’s on quarantine for a few more days.
I reached out to parent of (J) mentioning that I’d heard he was getting tested bc of (T), but mom says he had to be tested since getting a bad headache at school and having to be sent home since headache is on the list of COVID symptoms and can’t return til they have a negative test. I asked her to let me know the outcome so I can keep my son home or send back to school. No big deal, I just don’t want to potentially expose my sons school.
J was sent home on Tuesday and I assume he was tested that day. I got my results back late Wednesday night, but J’s mom hasn’t sent me results and I’m pretty sure we used the same testing site so now I’m totally perplexed as to whether or not she’s intentionally not sharing or what. My neighborhood is a hard split between political and economic differences so I can just imagine J’s mom refusing to help with contact tracing and so isn’t giving me any information either.
I reached out to M’s mom to see if she’d heard anything since it was her kid who took it upon himself to go around to all these houses telling everyone J has/might have COVID. The mom’s reply to me is standard issue “we have not been contacted by a local health department notifying us that M has come in to contact with a positive test case.. with no symptoms we have decided not to test M.” She works in a state agency in their HR working on COVID stuff - previous job was manager at a local fast food place - and I work in another state agency in HR and have given her lots of pointers as she’s struggled to get the ins and outs down. Still what kind of bullshit answer is that? My kid has been around all of these kids and I need to know WTF is happening. I’m on hard core pain meds and driving is just not an option so their stonewalling me is putting me in a difficult position.
His dad has NEVER taken him to a dr’a appointment and I don’t even know if he’d actually take him to be tested simply out of principle. He’s a flat earther, 5G hiss!!!!, no vaccination for me but smokes a lot, etc…. I’m at my wits end with these people and thankfully I’ve roped my mom in to taking my son to get tested since I’m not getting anything out of these other PIA’s.
These are the same people who see mask wearing mandates as a personal assault on their liberty, yet here are the rest of us caring about everyone and trying to get the rates down even though our own personal liberties are but secondary considerations to these adult babies getting their way.
I’m in pain, I’m exhausted, I’m doing this on my own trying not to expose my mom unnecessarily. I don’t care that none of your kids are showing symptoms I just need to know if my kid has been exposed. Maybe if you’ve read this small book I wrote you’ve got some insights. I suppose it’s a non issue once I get my son tested, but damn what is it with parents getting tight lipped? I’m not trying to start rumors I just want honest information. Anyone else had to deal with this level of unwillingness to share this sort of information? I think this may very well be what pushes me out of this neighborhood once and for all.
