A few days after the 4th of July festivities (Stadium of Fire, boating, family bbq), I started getting what I thought was a summer cold. I've taken/given a bunch of covid tests that were negative and just a cold. I decided to get my morning things done and then take a test later in the day. One of my morning items was to get Andrew off to deacons camp for the week. I tested positive for covid a few hours later! I spent the afternoon chatting with moms of other boys who were at camp and trying to decide what to do. We decided to let him stay at camp and he'd let his leaders know if he started experiencing any symptoms. I stayed on my room and quarantined for two days ... until Carson tested positive. I was just settling in to the idea of me being in my bedroom.alone.for.five.days - realizing it was a dream vacation I didn't know was possible. That came to a halting stop when I all of a sudden had a covid buddy. We turned our house into the "covid house" and sent Brandon & the big kids to his mom and dad's house, which is empty for another couple weeks while they finish their mission.
We decided to split households in order to keep Rachel healthy so that she could go to trek the following week. Brandon went and picked up Andrew from camp a night early so he could participate in the Steel Days parade with Barratt student council. He tested him and he was negative, so he got to stay with the other negative testers. Kendall also got to participate in the parade with summer colorguard. My neighbor and friend, Julie, even did her hair for me since she had covid a couple weeks ago. The big kids had a good weekend with dad and the Steel Days carnival.
Everything was going to plan until Brandon started feeling weird and ended up testing positive 5 days later. Ugh!! We decided to cancel Andrew & Kendall's activities for the week and bring them home. Then Rachel stayed one more day at Nancy's and quarantining from everyone so that she could finish a HS volleyball camp. Then we brought her home now that 3/6 of the family members had contracted covid and made the difficult decision to keep her home from trek, since it was a just a matter of time before her symptoms would likely start. By this time, Carson and I were basically out of our contagious period, so we could be around them and we kept Brandon in the bedroom for a few days. Rachel got home on Carson's birthday (we had to cancel his party), we had a little family party with Brandon in an N95 mask and he got to open his presents.
Get this - Rachel, Andrew and Kendall never got covid even though they were majorly exposed to Brandon!! Rachel missed trek (once every 4 years), Kendall missed her summer theater camp and play performance and Andrew just missed his friends desperately and got a little behind on his triathlon training. Brandon ended up staying in the bedroom until he tested negative (6 days) and the kids basically quarantined for nothing. It's been a long couple weeks making difficult decisions, but we are grateful for good health and for very manageable covid symptoms. We even followed all the CDC rules and survived to tell the tale!
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