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All-In [26968]
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It was certainly my most unusual Thanksgiving...
Nov 30, 2020, 8:28 AM
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I spent it quite alone. Even apart from my wife, as we were attempting to keep in separate parts of the house. Frozen TV dinners instead of a big home-cooked meal, not that I've been able to taste anything in over a week anyway. The isolation attempt didn't work, as she tested positive the day after Thanksgiving, 9 days after my positive test.
As I talked about in a thread below, I was a part of a COVID outbreak, tied to a church outing. We've dodged bullets for months, as we've met with no mask or social distancing protocols since May. (I'm one of only 3-4 people who always wear one.) This time, we went out of town to another church, where COVID was rampant...except it wasn't known yet. Days after the outing, we started to hear of positive tests at that church, then it was us. I tell myself I'm just a minion, and I've tried to set a personal example, and others are responsible for their own decisions. But that doesn't really make me feel better. Many times I've wanted to cry a warning out, but I didn't. I am guilty of not doing enough.
I don't know what my point is, or even if I have one. Just be safe, everyone, please.
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Are yall Holy-Rollers with the snakes and all?***
Nov 30, 2020, 8:41 AM
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Here's to a quick recovery for yo and the Ms. Prod.***
Nov 30, 2020, 8:45 AM
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All-In [26968]
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Thank you. I'm fully recovered, except no taste/smell.
Nov 30, 2020, 8:49 AM
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My quarantine period is actually over. Mrs. is doing fine, and appears to have just a light case, with a little cough.
Physically, this virus hasn't really done much of a number on me. Emotionally, it's been tough, because of the circumstances I talked about in the OP.
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Re: Thank you. I'm fully recovered, except no taste/smell.
Nov 30, 2020, 10:47 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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I told my wife early on we should just try and get it
Nov 30, 2020, 11:04 AM
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and we wouldn't have to worry about it any more.
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CU Medallion [60043]
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My NC Nutrition Cert
Nov 30, 2020, 11:05 AM
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allows me to speak on the subject.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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On the subject of getting the virus?
Nov 30, 2020, 11:05 AM
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Aren't you in sales or something?
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CU Medallion [60043]
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yes, but before I had a
Nov 30, 2020, 11:11 AM
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job where I had to get my Nutritionist Certification. Had to do the Dietetic Internship, took the CDR and all, so I know a little about the subject.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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Then it's surprising how you could be so wrong about
Nov 30, 2020, 11:16 AM
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taking an unregulated dietary supplement.
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Re: It was certainly my most unusual Thanksgiving...
Nov 30, 2020, 9:08 AM
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It was a strange one, and the first time in nearly 20 years I haven't traveled back to the hometown to be with the family. It was my wife's first Thanksgiving away from her parents.
It wasn't overly received well, but we didn't want to risk it. We haven't tested positive, but I consider myself high-risk given my situation, and we have family members with too many health problems.
On a side note, my wife has a close friend in the Upstate whose family hasn't taken COVID seriously at all and has been quite flippant with their gatherings. The day before Thanksgiving, one of her relatives died from it, and she wasn't that old.
It's not worth the risk.
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Rock Defender [53]
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Re: It was certainly my most unusual Thanksgiving...
Dec 1, 2020, 7:41 PM
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CU Medallion [60043]
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shouldnt have put yourself at such risk
Nov 30, 2020, 9:09 AM
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also, be more healthy. Take some vitamins and exercise.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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Re: You've preached this vitamin thing before.
Nov 30, 2020, 10:29 AM
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"You know vitamins don't really do much, right?"
this kind of ridiculousness is why Americans are dying left and right from heart disease, cancer and now COVID.
I cannot even have a real discussion with someone who doesnt think Vitamins sustain life. Most do need to come from food, however most of us do not get enough as we do not eat enough fruits, vegetables and grains.
But you just keep doing you man.
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Oculus Spirit [81061]
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Don't believe me, I wouldn't. Look it up yourself.
Nov 30, 2020, 11:02 AM
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I've got no reason to lie to you.
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Re: You've preached this vitamin thing before.
Nov 30, 2020, 1:06 PM
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I will say this about nutrition when it comes to immunity. I started a smoothie diet lunch about 5 years ago. No burgers or fries for lunch, just a smoothie that consists of blueberries, banana, avocado, spinach and Kale with some POM juice. I have not been sick 1 day in those 5 years.
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Re: shouldnt have put yourself at such risk
Nov 30, 2020, 10:57 AM
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Aren't you one of the people here who thinks the virus is basically a hoax/just a flu?
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CU Medallion [60043]
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I had it you dolt.***
Nov 30, 2020, 11:04 AM
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Re: I had it you dolt.***
Nov 30, 2020, 11:14 AM
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You also had a slew of posts downplaying the seriousness of this virus. Just another flu, you said. But kudos if you've changed your tune.
A personal experience is sadly what it often takes for some people to wake up and embrace reality.
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Re: It was certainly my most unusual Thanksgiving...
Nov 30, 2020, 10:40 AM
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Prodigal,
Covid is tough enough. Feeling personally responsible makes it even harder. Keep your head up.
Maybe you should tell your cautionary tale to more people. Not all of them would hear you, but some would.
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Re: It was certainly my most unusual Thanksgiving...
Nov 30, 2020, 11:07 AM
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how is it "tied" to a church outing?
if you read tigernet, you were told to avoid eating in restaurants or going to bars
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Just out of curiosity
Nov 30, 2020, 11:47 AM
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Did you wear a mask at that church function that you traced it to? Not insinuating masks don't work, I wear mine all day at the office, but wondering if there was just one moment you could trace it to.
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All-In [26968]
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I did not the entire time.
Nov 30, 2020, 12:44 PM
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The nature of this function (choir singing) was such that I did not wear one the entire time. I wore one, as I always do, walking around.
I also may have gotten exposed, personally, directly from my Dad, who I did talk to without a mask the next day. He was the first of all of us to test positive, though there's no reason to think he was some kind of "case zero," as he was in the same room/place as all the rest of us.
Of course, my mask doesn't do as much to protect me as it does those around me. I likely did not give it to anyone (except my wife) in the days following, even before I knew I had it.
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All-In [26968]
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That time in the choir that day...
Nov 30, 2020, 12:54 PM
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May have been my only time in the last six months I have been within 6 feet of a non-family member without a mask on.
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Legend [17778]
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Sounds similar to ours..
Nov 30, 2020, 12:38 PM
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From a COVID infection perspective.
I received my positive notification Nov 20; daughter received hers on the 19th; wife finally got hers on the 27th. We think my in laws brought it back from their gambling trip to Biloxi. They are retired Midwesterners... and so they travel and gamble, pre-existing conditions be ######.
No ICU for any of us, but father in law came close on Thanksgiving day. He seems to have pushed through the worst.
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