For Thanksgiving, we're having Covid!

Yesterday Russet came down for a blood draw as she has/had an endocrinologist appt early next week. And she was absolutely miserable. We went to Walgreens and bought a Covid test kit: the line went angry red in less than two minutes.

Off to urgent care, and while her vital numbers were good - she was running a fever, she clearly was not presenting well. They gave her some ibuprofen to try to bring the fever down and a respiratory treatment, and in two hours, she was much, much better. While we were there, I texted my immunologist who wired an order for paxlovid to the pharma for me. And I got the very last dose! The plan was that I'd take it as a preventative since clearly I'm doomed to test positive, but since both Albertsons and Walgreens were out, Russet is taking it unless I become symptomatic. Al's is supposed to get more on Friday, and I'll pick up her order for it then and start taking it.

For the next two weeks I'm supposed to keep the library open late for students to have a place to study for their finals. If I'm really clobbered by this, it's going to be a problem as we only have 2.5 people working there and I'm the half-timer.

Russet is doing much better today after a long nap when we got home yesterday evening then some good sleep last night, plus getting right on the drug. I hope it leads to a milder illness. And obviously I hope I have minimal problems with it!

We were going to do two long salmon fillets for dinner today (purchased Tuesday), but I decided to pick up a pork loin last night while at Albertsons as it's a 'fire and forget' bake that would be a lot easier to make and with much less fuss. We can do the salmon later, it'll keep in the freezer pretty much indefinitely.

Far too much fun! This will be our third round with Covid, we narrowly dodged it in August or September, but not this time.