Hello hello! Happy New Year, my dearest Loyal Readers!
Omigosh I have been gone from this blog for quite a while! I had been so excited for 2022 (and I still am) but it looked like 2022 was excited for me, too. It ushered me into a new year with COVID-19 finally finding my family. Yes, despite our precautions and protective measures, COVID decided that if we're not going to go out of our house, it will go in instead!
So the last couple of weeks were a bit... busy. I don't want to say I was stressed out or scared because I wasn't. Well-meaning people told me not to be scared. To be very honest, I wasn't scared at all. I may be a worrier, and I worried a lot about COVID, but I use that worry to prepare for many of the things I worry about. It's how I manage the anxiety. Then when what I worry about finally happens, well, I already have peace of mind. I prepared for it, I was ready for it, I imagined all sorts of scenarios in the dead of sleepless nights. In the face of the reality of my imagined horrors, I know no fear. Because I know what to do. It already played out in my head. And so I just tightened my ponytail and got to work.
My Covid Care Kit was ready. I had all the equipment and medications we needed. I had the doctors' names and phone numbers. I had the charts and lists. There was nothing to panic about. I just had to follow the steps I laid out months and months ago. I had prayed so many times about this that when it finally happened, my heart and mind were just calm. All the months of preparation and prayer made me peaceful. "This is it! I'm ready to fight!"
And thankfully, my husband and eldest boy came out all right. God is good!
Six days later, Vince got it, too. We had been taking turns caring for Vito and Vince thinks he forgot to put on a mask when he gave Vito a sponge bath so anyway he got it and he quarantined in our bedroom next.
And this was the scenario I didn't see - bathroom use! I had always assumed we would have one bathroom for the sick and one bathroom for the well. But both bathrooms now were used by the 2 patients and so us well ones had to disinfect the common bathroom after every time Vito used it and then we counted 30 minutes before we entered the bathroom. This has resulted in hilarious situations when nature was suddenly calling. Honestly, while the last few weeks have been a serious matter, there have also been many cases when we laughed and prayed and truly thought about how wonderful our life is. Look at our bunso missing his Papa:
See you here again soon!
Happy to know you're all well now! ❤️
ReplyDeleteThanks, Helen! Only 2 in my family got sick. Super grateful hindi kami nahawa talaga!
DeleteOh my! I'm glad you scraped though it well enough. And the bad thing about omicron is that reinfection is a bigger possibility. Thank God it's milder. But let's all continue to take care.
ReplyDeleteYes, I feel that dapat talagang iwasan ang COVID kasi hindi natin alam how we'll react to it. Like, why do some people get it very bad, others have mild symptoms, others have no symptoms at all? And even if you got COVID na and mild lang naman, who's to say the next time you get it mild pa rin? Some people who got it mild think, "Oh, it's okay lang naman pala." I know people like this! And then they go out and party and act like 2019 again. Things are different now. We really have to be careful na.
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