Hoping for the best for you and your family -- quick recoveries, and good test results!

As one who's been through this with my oldest son...I send my best wishes, as well, for a speedy recovery for all. My son was down and out for 3 weeks and shared it with the rest of his in-house family. The females got a very mild case mostly involving digestive issues and very mild coughs. The resident grandson [aged 30] got a full blown case along with his father but recovered faster. They're all now retesting on a regular bi-weekly basis with varying test results. My son has had both negative and positive test results at this point in time but aside from a minor cough, he appears to be OK. He's a 911 lung damaged victim and needs to see his pulmonologists but can't until his weekly testing comes back negative.

May you stay well and your son and his fiancee recover quickly.

Well wishes to you and entire family.

ugh...I’m so sorry. I hope that YOU and others don’t catch it and that they recover quickly. I see an unbelievable number of people not wearing masks and had to ask 2 different men coming to service something at the house today if they had a mask. They started to come in the door as if having no mask on was ok! WTH?

Terilyn, healing thoughts for you and your family. Hopefully your tests will be negative and your son and his SO will recover quickly and without any complications. Your anxiety must be through the roof. I'm so sorry you must deal with this.

So sorry to hear that you will have to deal with this disease. Best wishes for your entire family, and fingers crossed that the rest will test negative.

Prayers for you and all of your family.

Terilyn, I'm sending best wishes to your son and his fiancee, that they get over it quickly. And that you both test negative!

Terilynn, I pray all will go well with you when you and DH get tested. Thanks for sharing this with us. I just had a conversation with a friend last night. Her brother has not been feeling well. Temp and diarrhea but refuses to get tested. Meanwhile he continues to go to work because he needs the money, possibly infecting hundreds of people. She helped her brother move to a new house a week ago. I begged her to go get tested since he won't. We've all been cooped up for months and out of frustration, starting to be a little more adventuresome. These are prime examples why we cannot let our guard down. I do hope your son and his fiancee wind up with a mild case and you, DH and grand kids escape it entirely!

Do you know what/where they were doing when they were exposed?

Even if as I hope that you test negative perhaps it would be wise to repeat the test since apparently you have to have a certain amount of the virus in your system to be positive.

Terilyn, I am so sorry! When it hits close to home, this makes it far more real. I’m sorry you will have to quarantine for a while.

I am pretty sure she contracted it from one of her jobs, she is a makeup artist and works as a bartender part time. Of course his oldest daughter is visiting from Chicago, she could be the carrier. He’s a gym instructor. They could have contracted it anywhere. I am worried about my husband, he recently finished radiation treatments. Kali is getting tested also since the girls all spent the night in her room together.

Oh dear oh dear, terilyn. So sorry to hear this. I join everyone here in wishing all in your family successful recovery without hospitalization. So very sorry.

So sorry to read this Teri- hoping that whoever does get it, gets very mild cases and it ends up being uneventful. Hoping it all resolves soon for you.

Wishing everyone a speedy recovery Terilyn. I'm so sorry this happened. (((hugs)))

Terilyn, my best wishes for your family. I'm very sorry you are going through this.

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully they will recover quickly and with no lingering health problems.

My daughter and I are planning on taking my son's things to him next month when I'm off. I'm probably going to get tested before I go. And try and convince my daughter to do the same. I don't want to bring it to him.

so sorry for all of you.... hoping for a quick and full recovery !!

I got an email from my older sister in San Antonio last week that her middle son, in his mid to late 50s, has been in the hospital since May 12th with Covid19. They were told he was dying a few times, but late last week he was declared virus free and had finally been able to sit up. He was a big, strapping, healthy athletic man. He is still on a machine to oxygenate his blood and rest his heart and lungs. They do not know if there will be permanent damage or what his new normal will be. I don't tend to hear from this sister, and so we don't know how they think he got exposed. May never hear and they may not know. Luckily, so far no one else in the family has contracted it.

Sending prayers your way Terilyn!

Oh dear. This is awful news. I am thinking of you and hoping that everything turns out okay for all of you.

Hope all goes well for you.

Sending best wishes for everyone.

Hoping for a good outcome for everyone in your family.

It's getting serious again around Houston. We don't get out except grocery shopping and pharmacy. We always have a mask on.

Best of luck to you!

It has most certainly hit home for us. My oldest dd is an RN and went to the minor emergency due to a severe sore throat. She tested negative for strep, positive for Covid. We had spent the previous weekend at my db's bday party. Since then me, my youngest dd, and my nephew have tested positive (he is here with me for the summer), my niece is waiting on her test. My dh tested negative, but we are thinking that he might have had it previously. All of our symptoms have been very mild. Mine started last Tuesday with a headache and stuffy nose. The stuffy nose has continued and had a day or two with tightening in my chest. Luckily is has been mild because my dd and nephew both have asthma. My RN dd has no idea where she got it. She really doesn't think she got it at the hospital she works at. I've contacted everyone I can possible think of that I was in contact with. My ds and his gf got tested yesterday. The county has been very good about calling us and seeing how we are doing. My nephew is suppose to go back to Florida but he has to test negative before he can fly. We are flying to Oregon at the end of July so we will also need the documented negative test too.

A continuing source of misunderstanding, to be sure everyone has it clear -

Unless you have a properly worn 3M N-95 mask, which some do but most don't, wearing any form of mask protects others from you but doesn't protect you from others, whether the others are wearing masks or not. And the special N-95 masks do wear out.

There are a lot of ambiguously labeled and described masks being sold. The ones that are the real deal are generally not available right now although those with special needs may receive them from their medical providers.

terilyn - I am so sorry to hear this news. I hope everyone recovers quickly with no lasting complications.

And winter, sheilajoyce and jewels - I hope that you and your families recover quickly and easily as well.

I am sorry to read this. Best wishes to terilyn, sheilajoyce and jewels that they and their families soon feel better and are on their way to full recoveries.

Sending healing thoughts your brother's way, sheilajoyce. What a long, slow recovery it is for so many who get walloped by this disease. This is *not* the flu.

Jewels, I'm sorry you were all hit with the disease, but glad it's been mild for you so far. Hope it stays that way and that everyone gets to negative very soon!

^ what they said -- best wishes for good health/good outcomes for you all and your families. Thank you for sharing your real-world experience with us; it brings the situation that much closer to home for us too.

So much is still unknown about this virus ... keep paying attention to the experts, they are learning more about short- and long-term impacts all the time.

Wishing you and your family a return to good health very soon

More wishes for you and all the family to get through this quickly and without more positive tests. What a difficult time this must be for you all.

All the best to those who have it or and have loved ones with it. I hope things remain mild for those who are so lucky.

We've had a few scares but so far it has not hit home here. Nephew and brother and sister-in-law have all been tested and are all negative. They have a flu.

I truly believe it is a matter of time for it to hit everywhere. Not looking forward to it. The only hope is to slow it down in the world and our individual communities so medicine and science can catch up.

Scary times. Pandemic in this case sometimes feels like it equals apocalyptic.

Terilyn I'm very sorry to read that it's come to your family and also that so many here are going through this. I pray every night that there will soon be relief from this danger. It's a reminder too, to be vigilant ourselves.

Hope everyone recovers soon

Prayers for all of the families who are affected by this disease.

I, too, hope everyone recovers quickly and completely. These are scary times.

My heart goes out to you and your family. I hope everyone recovers completely. I also hope you share your story with those who refuse to wear masks.

I'm so sorry that some of you have family members who have tested positive for Covid-19 virus, and some of you have as well. I pray all of you will recover and those who are being tested, test negative. terilyn, a special prayer for your husband, and also for all of those with breathing issues, etc.

Please let us know how your son and fiancé are doing. And if you develop symptoms. Hopefully all will be mild or nil.

Hope everyone affected recovers soon without complications.

So sorry to read this, prayers going up for all those affected by COVD19.

Rusty

Wishing all that are affected a good outcome and/or recovery.

Terilyn, how are you doing?

Oh, dear. After reading Terilynn's post, I wanted to wish those in her family with Covid a speedy recovery. And as I kept reading, I see more of you have had family members test positive. Sorry to hear this and I hope all have a mild case and recover quickly.

Terilyn, sending prayers for all of you. Jewels_ks, prayers for you and your family, also.

So sorry for all those & families stricken with covid. It has to be a frightening time. Wishing all a swift & uneventful recovery.

My son's fiancé is an RN at a long term health care facility. They have been in lockdown since March and had their first case two weeks ago in a patient. The virus was transmitted from an asymptomatic aide. There are now 19 patients and staff affected, with one death. My son's fiancé began experiencing a fever 6 days ago, and has tested positive. Thankfully her symptoms remain mild with minor body aches and fatigue, low grade fever lasted 3 days. She and my son live together. Two days ago he started feeling ill with totally different symptoms of a body rash and headache. That is what's so frustrating about this virus, it can affect people so differently. He was tested on Friday and should hear within 3-5 days. Being that his fiancé is a health care worker, her test was expedited and she was notified within 24 hours.

Terilyn and Jewel, I'm hoping symptoms remain mild and all have a quick recovery. Hugs!