I'm pissed and have to get a COVID test ...

[FirstLight]

Last edited Mon Nov 22, 2021, 03:40 PM - Edit history (2)

ALLL this time and vaccinated and i get exposed by my daughter's roomate's mother! (And I wprk in Hotel Front Desk!)

She's a typical assholle anti-vaxxer and her BF got it and they didnt test for it and said it wasnt covid...
The roommate saw her Tuesday (I guess she was already starting to get sick by then) and the kids were both a little sniffly when we went out yesterday.

Now the roomate (only had one shot so far) is feeling sick today and my daughter is still just a little icky. The mother called and told them TODAY oh yeah, it IS covid...oops!

I know you cant get it that fast, (right? 24-28 hours? ...oh shit, what if I got it at work instead?)
But I have been sneezing and runny ALLLL day since I got to work. Then my daughter sends me the text to get tested this afternoon.

Now I'm paranoid...
Now watching for ANY other symptoms.
Literally have not been "sick" since 2019 (Other than my usual autoimmune shit)
I am hoping my vaccination will help. Now I'm so fucking scared and PISSED

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Delta symptoms come faster, I believe.

I think it’s 2-4 days before onset of symptoms with delta variant.

Don’t be scared…your vaccine should protect you. Hydrate.

[WarGamer]

2. keep an eye on temperature... that seems to be the red flag.

[Yarnie]

3. And oxygen

I had a positive test in September, in spite of being double vaxxed. My doc's office told me to keep an eye on my temp, but we have 4 or 5 digital thermometers, and they registered vastly different temps. I got a pulse oxymeter, and kept a really close eye on that. I never got really sick.

Also--must remember, people still get colds. Just because you're sick, doesn't mean it's covid.

[WarGamer]

4. +1000 nt

[helpisontheway]

32. Right..the flu is spreading on my son's campus. So far they have covid under control

No telling how it will be after break though.

[Froggyproggy]

5. The odds are in your favor.

You will be fine. Best wishes on a speedy recovery.

[lapucelle]

6. So there was no contact between you and the mother or you and the roommate,

but there was contact with your daughter?

Who are "the kids" you're talking about?

Have the roommate and/or your daughter been tested? Has anyone been contact traced?

[FirstLight]

7. sorry, to clarify

Gaughter's roommate saw mother on tuesday, she knew she was sick and didnt say anything till today

I spent the afternoon and evening with my daughter and the roommate in the car and eating together... they both said they had "colds" but that was all they knew at the time.

Today, roomate is sicker (nose, throat and some aches & chills), daughter still just holding with a snotty nose and sore throat.

I have been sneezing and getting progressively more snotty as the day goes by. Can't really tell if anything else is wrong yet... but like I said it's only been 24 hours. It could be a false alarm in my case. UNLESS I got it at work Thursday?

[lapucelle]

9. Your daughter and her roommate should get tested. So should you.

I know it sucks, but if any of you has covid, it's better to know so you can all take responsible next steps to minimize spread and to ensure that you do everything you can do to mitigate the course of the illness.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/quarantine-isolation.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fif-you-are-sick%2Fquarantine.html

Hang in there.

[Throck]

8. Welcome to the club

Double Pfizer and a booster. Ended up with it anyway. Everyone at work vaxed and wear a mask constantly.

Good news I'm still alive.

[Ms. Toad]

10. Why are you are work???

ANY symptoms of cold, allergies, sore throat, headache should immediately trigger you to stay home until you test negative.

I have been exposed so many times this year it is getting hard to keep track of - and virtually all were by people who were sure that they just had colds, allergies, sore throat, headache. It couldn't possibly be COVID, since they were all vaccinated.

PLEASE * * * PLEASE - stay home if you have ANY symptoms. People who are vaccinated and have breakthorugh cases are every bit as contagious as people who have COVID who aren't vaccinated.

Sorry to unload, but - as annoyed as you are at your daughter's roommate's mother - I'm just as annoyed at all of the people who were vaccinated and came to work/school when they had a "cold" "allergies" etc. becuase they couldn't possibly have COVID.

And yes, you can get it in 48 hours.

[FirstLight]

15. I really thought nothing until halfway through shift

would not have gone in if I had a clue... my coworker masked up and I was like oops...sorry

guess since im vaxxed I got a little lax

[Ms. Toad]

17. And that's exactly how I've been exposed a half-dozen times since August.

In more than half of the instances in which friends/acquaintances were certain they just had something else, they didn't.


My mantra continues to be vax up, mask up, and remember that vaccination is not a magic shield. Hope you (and those around you) get lucky and it is just a cold!

[FirstLight]

18. Im sorry, as soon as it seemed like it wasnt allergies i went home

i get it... i didnt know...

[Ms. Toad]

19. My employee gave it to her entire family, thinking it was allergies.

Vaccinated husband and three children - including a relatively newly diagnosed T1 diabetic. After experiencing "allergies," she continued to share overnight duties caring for the child with diabetes. (She is probably the third most careful person I know - with me being the second most careful. The most careful is a co-worker who wears a mask, shield, and nitrile gloves.)

Fortunately, no one in her family had a severe case.

I get it that we aren't used to staying home for the sniffles. It's a sea change in how we think about the sniffles and work - but we have to make that sea change in our attitude.

I keep a supply of test kits at home (we get them for free from the health department or the library). Even though I'm scrupulous about masking, I get tested every other week (since I encounter up to 100 people a day). And any time I've got sniffles, GI symptoms, etc. - OR - any of the several times I've been exposed, I use one of the test kits before I leave the house. We tested my spouse who has had severe allergies all of her life (for more than 6 decades) before we went for early Thanksgiving with my parents. Even though it was exactly the same as every other weather-change allergy attack. I'm just not willing to risk being part of a transmission vector.

[Tanuki]

11. I don't blame you for being angry at the selfish and harmful behavior

of the roommate's mother. Please let us know the outcome. I hope you and your daughter will be OK.

[Rebl2]

12. Send the bill

for the Covid test to the mother of your daughters friend

[Heartstrings]

13. Healing vibes sent........nt

[Jacson6]

14. If you are fully vaccinated...

You may not get it or have a very light case of it. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[FirstLight]

16. I'm more worried since I'm on boilogics ro stop auto-immune stuff

I even told them at my last checkup to check if my body is even making antibodies with the drugs I'm on


im achey now...but is it covid or just the usual crap ...ugh

[Ms. Toad]

20. My daughter is on biologics, as well.

They are supposed to be localized to her gut (entyvio/vidoluzomab), but her doctor recommended that she get a booster anyway. So we're a fully boostered family.

The autoimmune stuff may save you. It has always kept my daughter safe from lots of creepy crud stuff. She was exposed to COVID exactly a year ago - and since I had read her the riot act about masking when she was with people other than our household within a day of that exposure she was afraid to tell me. So instead of coming home she went back and hung out some more with those who exposed her (not realizing that duration of exposure would increase her chances of getting it). But even with several hours of full exposure, she still didn't get it. Her exposure trashed my annual pie-baking fest, since I could't risk sending 20 COVID-infected pies to homeless folks . . . but at least she didn't get it. And a year has passed, and I'm in the midst of baking 40 pumpkin pies. 16 for the law school where I teach, 20 for the local homeless shelter, and another 4 for family and friends. Daughter just left with 3/8 of a pie for her buddies at Amazon.

Hope you and yours escape COVID!

[FirstLight]

21. yay! pie!

I asked my doc about the booster the last dr appt and they kind of blew me off. My next appt is in dec and I am definitely pushing for it!


My daughter will know her results tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

[Ms. Toad]

28. Hoping for the best! n/t

[Bucky]

22. Call her up. Tell her. Be polite, but point out she's part of the problem

Use the words responsibility and Christian charity a lot.

I recommend implying she's a leper and that she got sick because Jesus wouldn't want to touch her

[FirstLight]

24. Oh she's crying about it NOW...

Like how she's soooooo sick and she WISHES she'd gotten vaxxed. Her BF is now in the hospital with covid pneumonia... he's one of those Trumper assholes too.

I dont speak to her, she's a POS partent and I've seen her damage her kid since middleschool. He's trans and she still deadnames him and misgenders on purpose. She made him wear a dress for middleschool graduation. This kid has got a laundry list of mental health issues that he's working on now that he's out of her house. Im glad my daughter has been such a good friend over the years.

[Meowmee]

23. So sorry

Are you boosted? Go to get tested immediately and if positive demand monoclonal antibodies and or the new pill or both if allowed and safe. Tell them you have recent symptoms. Hugs to you.

I just turned down an invite from a friend I have not seen for years to a home movie marathon. I texted is everyone fully vaxed, answer was no, which I expected. I wouldn’t go even with fully vaxed people though because I would have to wear a mask anyway. And how do I know who is being honest.

[FirstLight]

25. not boosted yet. My daughter's results will be in tomorrow...

Im gonna do the walk up tomorrow, they rescheduled me at the other place for Tuesday. Im not sure about symptoms. The runny nosw kind of stopped, but now i dont feel right in my throat...not sore, but not "normal"

Then again, I could be totally paranoid and see every little thing as a symptom...

[Meowmee]

26. Always better to be safe than sorry

Hopefully if it is covid you will have a mild case but I would get every treatment possible anyway to make sure it is. I had it in the beginning of the pandemic and had double pneumonia. Terrible pain, sick for weeks, twice to er and I am now a lh. My father had it, negligently infected in January at an er, he died last month, also caused by the hospital. He had 10 hospitalizations from the damage it did to him and he became an invalid, he was never the same after. The damage was to his heart, bladder and brain mostly it seemed and who knows what else.

[FirstLight]

27. omg that's horrible!

[FirstLight]

29. UPDATE! Daughter tested NEGTIVE!

SHe got the results last night... I told her to still be cautious because she's only 6 days in the 15 day window.

I am going to try and still get tested today just in case.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. You are right to be cautious. How long did she wait for her test?

[FirstLight]

31. About 12 hours. It was a Spit-test, dont know how reliable those are either. (nt)

[Maru Kitteh]

34. A saliva PCR is very accurate. Hope all stays well. nt

[Bucky]

33. This is wonderful news. You must feel so relieved.

I'm glad it turned out this way.

People being shitty neighbors to each other is so pointless. We could make this a better world if only we'd learn to think of others' rights