COVID update
Aug. 1st, 2022 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkHarris, the toddler that was really sick yesterday, is better today. He's still a little droopy but his fever is down to 100.4, he is asking for food and liquids, and even cooperating when his parents want to take his temperature. Leo clearly has it too, but it doesn't seem to be bothering him much. His temperature this morning was 101 (still in the "low-grade" category) and he has a little cough.
And I tested positive this morning. I felt it coming on last night, and this morning I felt like I was definitely getting a cold. Slightly running nose, more of a cough than I usually have, slight sore throat, and a weird faintly dizzy feeling sometimes when I turn my head. The pink line on the antigen test lit up almost instantly, brighter than the comparison line.
I immediately set my plan in motion to get Paxlovid. First step is to schedule a PCR test at Health Partners. Okay, easy enough to do that online. Except... something was wrong with the website this morning and it kept timing out with random error messages. It took me about 15 minutes of constant retrying to force my way through, but I got an appointment for 12:30 in St Louis Park. Presumably, the results will be forwarded to HP's COVID Response Team which will immediately get back to me with treatment options. I figure there is maybe a 50% chance of that actually happening?
Have any of you successfully gotten a Paxlovid prescription, or known anyone that has? I know 3 people who did and they all say that they felt better within hours of starting it. So I hope this works.
And I tested positive this morning. I felt it coming on last night, and this morning I felt like I was definitely getting a cold. Slightly running nose, more of a cough than I usually have, slight sore throat, and a weird faintly dizzy feeling sometimes when I turn my head. The pink line on the antigen test lit up almost instantly, brighter than the comparison line.
I immediately set my plan in motion to get Paxlovid. First step is to schedule a PCR test at Health Partners. Okay, easy enough to do that online. Except... something was wrong with the website this morning and it kept timing out with random error messages. It took me about 15 minutes of constant retrying to force my way through, but I got an appointment for 12:30 in St Louis Park. Presumably, the results will be forwarded to HP's COVID Response Team which will immediately get back to me with treatment options. I figure there is maybe a 50% chance of that actually happening?
Have any of you successfully gotten a Paxlovid prescription, or known anyone that has? I know 3 people who did and they all say that they felt better within hours of starting it. So I hope this works.
