Covid

After spending a year avoiding everything and everyone it finally happened. I finally got Covid the day we returned from Maldives. I started feeling sick on the flight and I knew by the time we touched down in Kyiv that I had Covid. I tested at the airport, headed straight home and didn’t leave my room for the next 11 days. Randy and the kids didn’t come into the room and didn’t leave the apartment. We were all isolated in our own ways.

Covid is an interesting thing. It is tied with a lot of stigma and a lot of judgment. I had 11 days isolated in my room to think about all the reasons I was at fault for getting sick. I shouldn’t have traveled, I should have washed my hands more, I should have tested more, I shoudln’t have waited on the breakfast egg line that was always crowded. I also had a lot of time to worry. And this is what is hard about Covid, you just don’t know. You don’t know if you will that one person who is young(ish) and healthy but will have to be hospitalized or worse. Every time you have trouble breathing you can see the intubation tube coming. Every time the kids were tired or cranky that week, I was sure they were going to get Covid and that’s a whole other rabbit hole that most mothers are very familiar with. We were very lucky overall. I had trouble breathign for a few weeks and flu like symptoms but fully recovered. We found out after by testing antibodies that the kids had also had Covid but had no symptoms.

So how do you spend 11 days in a room alone you ask? Well, the first four days I stayed in my pajamas and didn’t even have energy to facetime the kids.

Eventually I started feeling better and I was able to call the kids and enjoy the presenst the kids dropped off at my door and the flowers from my sweet friend that brightened up my room. Luckily there was loads of crap TV I have missed out with that I was able to catch up on. I watched everything out there, shows on ballerinas, 90 day fiancee, Grey’s Anatomy, there is even a show where two people who have never met get married. So much TV out there to while away your time if you’re not working and raising three kids.

It also helped that I had this beautiful view out my window. I even could see the kids sled when they were down there. And eventually, two weeks later I was finally allowed out! I went for long walks, so happy to be freed!

We finally organized our seashells from the Maldives.

The only good thing to come out of Covid was that I could live free and not worry about catching Covid for a bit. I was able to go to our favorite restaurant (alone, since Randy had no antibodies), but the wine and artichoke was still delicious!

I started getting breakfast at the cafe down the block after my runs.

I was able to get my hair done for the first time in a year!

Even with the perks I wouldn’t wish Covid on anyone. It took me months to get back to my full run and I missed a month of life with the quarantines and recovery. All that being said, I know how lucky I am to have gotten off so easy!