My ongoing battle with COVID-19

[saxmatt]

Damn dude, that’s scary. I hope you and your family make it through it okay.

[Skunk City]

I think a lot of people have grown "covid-fatigued", in the fact that they are getting lacksidasical with their efforts to prevent this infection now that summer is here. You guys did the right thing and still got sick. You're a young man with a young family, that should open some eyes. For that reason only, I thank you for your post Jeremy. I work in a nursing home in Bergen county that got rocked hard by covid-19. Patients, staff, old, young, didnt matter. Hopefully you guys kick it quickly. With my younger coworkers that got it, it will suck for anywhere from 6 days to 6 weeks. One kicked the fever after 6 days and felt completely fine after, another was out for 6 weeks and still is having some breathing issues. A bunch in the 10-14 day time period of feeling rough. And yes, the nasal swab tests suck and are not a fun time. Tomorrow will be my 10th lol.

Jeremy sorry to read about you and your boy contracting the virus but thanks so much for sharing your story. People need to read your post and understand that even people who are well-intentioned and well-prepared are still at risk of being infected.

This isn't the common flu and if people don't start realizing that we're dealing with something the world has never dealt with before and start listening to science and world health leaders, this country is going to be in for a rude awakening if it's not already.

I wish you, your boy and your entire family the best making a full recovery. Take nothing for granted my friend as this virus can have lingering after effects as well. I hope and pray that people start to understand the severity of the health crisis we're dealing with as opposed to throwing caution to the wind and worrying only about their own personal agendas. That's only going to fuel the flames of what we're dealing with right now.

Wishes for a speedy recovery and thanks again for sharing your story. Certainly not an easy thing to do.

[Stella blue]

Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery for you and your family

[RiverRat77]

First I wish you and the family the best of health.
Second..Thank you for putting this out there. I am of very similar age, 2 kids both young men in high school. I have been slipping lately with the Covid-19 awareness. Not after reading your story, I am gonna start tidying up the ship a bit.
Again thanks for sharing & hope you bounce right back.

[icebadger]

jigman hope the best for you and your family that was a scary post, you were doing all the right things and it still found you. what did you come up with as far as who you were in contact with? any thing out of the ordinary? can you remember any place different you might have been? i know you do not pray so let me do it for you may god grant you and your son a speedy recovery and keep your other family members safe hope to hear that you got through this horrible experience.

[bunker dunker]

hang in there Jigman13,sound like the worst is over.take care of the family and God Bless

[Hookmanski]

Thanks for posting this, hoping for the best for you and your family. I'm sure you'll be back ripping lips in no time!

[rwp2101]

Wishing you a continued recovery. If you did happen to feel very bad again, mainly with difficulty breathing or your chest feeling heavy and being even more tired don’t be ashamed to go right to the ER or call an ambulance— from accounts of others in your age range that doesn’t always happen but it could be bad news and not a time to be “tough”.

You very likely have covid, and there is no point in getting retested.
My career has been spent judging odds and understanding probabilities. Explanation below for those interested. This is an application of something called Bayes Theorem if you want to look it up...
While big fishy is right about the rate of false positives leaving a lot to be desired, the rate of false negatives means that:
GIVEN your specific symptoms(including loss of taste) & your positive test & the symptoms of your son & his positive test & the timing of your symptoms THEREFORE it’s highly likely you have covid
AND THEREFORE even if you were retested and came back negative, because there are false negatives, one would still conclude, given everything else we know, that you have covid and this is simply a false negative.