Was it Covid? …

A dear diary blog for us to remember …

Back in September, our littlest love came home from school on a Friday, and was just exhausted. She was so tired that she could not help, but cry. She just wanted to lay directly by my side rest and nap. So over that weekend, she slept-in, napped, cried on the soccer ⚽️ field, etc. (Looking back, poor little thing) … She was just really tired and had a slight runny nose too.

She got a little better, after the weekend and after hanging with my family on that Sunday. She was happier and not as tired. I even made her nap right after school for a few days after the weekend. We did not think anything of it, truly, except that she was probably just run down! We thought maybe she was just adjusting to now being in school and that the days made her tired. After all, she was a big bad Kindergartener now!

Now onto me, oddly I had a weird hip pain for like an hour over the weekend, while snuggling her. Then woke-up with an AWFUL back ache, after the weekend. Our oldest little love, then was complaining of her muscles hurting after Soccer ⚽️ practice on that Tuesday night. We then both woke-up with a head-ache (this was now on Wednesday) and had a mild head ache for three (3) days. We did not have a fever, but both had a slight runny nose. She had the chills, she kept saying too, but again, no fever! It didn’t progress into anything else. So, I thought maybe it was fall allergies and we could be dehydrated, so drink more water? 🤷🏻‍♀️ (I laugh 🤣 because my oldest little love was like how much water do we need to drink?) That Friday, we both ended up with a sore throat in the evening while watching a movie, so I then said to my husband, “Maybe we are coming down with something?”

That Saturday we both woke up, felt better, but I still took a mucinex to be safe. After all we were spending the day at the fields ⚽️ and working the snack stand. We also were heading to PA to visit with family for my Father-in-law’s Birthday later that day. My back was still hurting though, so I told my husband that I was going to have to call a Doctor on Monday to see if I did something?

So, now we are up in PA. We walk in and my Sister-in-law says, “You okay? Are you feeling okay?” I said, “Yeah, just tired. It’s been a long day!” Not thinking of the week of symptoms (because again we thought allergy like symptoms.) So, we spent the night in PA, we wake-up Sunday and my back is no longer hurting and for both of us, all symptoms are still completely gone! 🤔 So, I am like, well, this is great, that was weird!

So, we enjoy our morning and as I have mentioned, I am a Scentsy Consultant. So, all want to order scents, so I take out the catalog, and bring my bag of scents out. We all begin to smell, and I CANNOT smell any of them. I text my husband and say, “I cannot smell any of these!” He says, “WHAT, go blow your nose!” So, I did … not that I had to, but figured why not? Maybe it will get my nose to wake-up or something? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Nope! I then, call my daughter in from outside while playing with her cousins and say, “Smell these!” She too cannot smell any of the scents and she looks at me and says, “Wait! Did we have Covid?” I said, “I think so!”

I then realize over breakfast, that I cannot exactly taste certain things, either! 🤷🏻‍♀️ So, now I am texting my husband saying, “We have to leave!” After all, Covid literally changed the world, as we all know!!!

So, now driving home, I am just 🤔 like wait, did we just have Covid and not know? My husband asks if I want a French Vanilla Cappuccino? I say, yes of course! So, he stops and I am sipping on it on the way home. He says, “How was your Cappuccino?” I said, “It was good, can’t taste it like I normally do, but it’s still good!” He says, “Oh good, because it wasn’t a French Vanilla Cappuccino, wanted to see if you would notice!”🤣

So, the next day I call my mom, to tell her about my loss of smell, my taste being altered, and the possibility that we had Covid. She tells me she’s been fighting a cold all week, she caught it, a few days after we hung out and I say, “Oh no, can you smell? and is Dad okay?” She says, Dad is fine and she’s doing better, she thinks she can smell, but come to find out when she got home later that day, she also could not smell. She also was over my sister’s house for our nephew’s party over the weekend, while we were visiting with my husband’s family. (My Father-in-law and nephew share the same Birthday.)

So, let me go back to earlier in the week … my sister called me asking, “What did you do, when your littlest love was tired over the weekend?” Her sons were now tired too and she’s like, “This is so weird. They just want to sleep.” I told her, “I think it’s just school and such, they are little, adjusting and just tired.” So, I told her what we did with our littlest love and that she felt better by Tuesday.

So, back to me no longer smelling, our oldest little love not smelling, my mom not smelling … I decide to check with our littlest love and she too cannot smell! Then, later find out that my cousin comes down with a cold and he gets tested, he’s Covid positive! He was hanging with my sister and the boys at my nephews party. Then my Brother-in-law comes down with a cold, he too is Covid positive.

I was feeling fine like I said, but since I cannot smell and my taste was now altered, I go and get tested. I am Covid negative, they told me that I most likely would test negative because loss of smell is the aftermath or a final symptom of Covid? 🤷🏻‍♀️

So, now talking with my sister, she decides to go and get tested, even though she has no symptoms! However, hearing of me and my girls, her boys, along with mom, her husband, and our cousin. She tests, her results come back, Covid positive. Later she gets mild symptoms. So, my mom decides to get tested and she too, like me, is Covid negative.

My husband in the meantime has had body aches, like flu like aches for three (3) days and is slightly congested, but doesn’t get tested. He is overly busy at work, so he decides to just go in and isolate himself in office (all are mostly working from home too) and he cannot be quarantined at home, right now. Work needs to get done!

So, out of all of us, ten (10) had Covid like symptoms. Three (3) tested positive for Covid and out of us all, two (2) were vaccinated. Out of the vaccinated, one (1) tested Covid positive. Seven (7) of us loss our smell and altered/loss our taste. Three (3) only lost it for like two (2) weeks. Where as me, and my daughters … well, my one (1) loss it for about two (2) months, but just her smell and our other loss her smell for like four (4) months. She now has a weird smell to certain smells, as does my husband. They actually smell a certain type of chemical smell to the same smells. He though, never lost his smell!

We call our PA family to fill them in and they all are okay, thank God! 🙏🏼 My sister-in-law says I knew it when I saw you, you had Covid eyes, but I thought maybe she’s just tired too? (My sister-in-law is a nurse and our brother-in-law is a Doctor, so they’ve been dealing with many Covid patients during this Covid pandemic.)

Back to the loss of smell. My sister and I have had lasting symptoms, the worst! Her and I could not smell at all, for months. I would say for the both of us we were in month five (5), when we started to vaguely smell again. It has now been six (6) months for the both of us. I can smell some things, but not all and my taste actually is getting better, but still cannot taste all things. Like ice cream, I can taste something, and it’s good “again,” but it’s not exactly the taste of mint ice cream! 🤷🏻‍♀️

It is actually pretty difficult to explain to people. Only those who are dealing with this same thing, can understand!

Here’s the craziness in the situation too, we all were trying so hard to go back to normal that this health screening ⬇️ I didn’t even see, mainly because so many emails were coming in from every angle.

Then two (2) of our little loves, when they returned back to school, were now to be quarantined from school, due to Covid positives in their classrooms and our other little love said, all of her little friends and her, had the same symptoms at the same time. Since they were allergy like and mild, 🙏🏼 they never ended up being quarantined.

I actually found out, a few months later, while talking with another mom (in the parent pick-up line) that both of our Kindergarten kiddies were in the same class and they sat at the same table back in September. Well, she’s talking about her and her husband’s loss of smell and I am like me too! When did you have Covid? She says, “When school started, maybe a week after!” She continued to say, “Her little boy never showed any symptoms, she thinks, so she sent him into school!” I am like, “Wowww!!! Ding, ding, ding, and now the puzzle pieces are coming together.” So, our little love brought it home that weekend in September because of a close contact in school. Then, the week she returned back, her whole class was to be quarantined because of multiple Covid positives. So, yes, we are now pretty sure it was Covid!

(Looking back though, to January of 2020), we were sick with flu like symptoms and we were visiting my grandparents in Florida. Out of our three (3) little loves, only one (1) was the sickest with a fever, GI issues, stuffiness, etc. I was pretty sick too, but have been sicker in the past. I still went and got tested for the flu though because we were pretty sure it was the flu, body aches, cough, fever, GI, so tested for both flu A & B, and both came back negative. My grandparents ended up catching it from us too, turning into pneumonia for them 🙏🏼 and we all (the adults) had a lasting cough for at least three (3) weeks. So, we are thinking this was Covid before “Covid-19” became a “thing.”

So, this time around (September 2021) it was now the “Delta Variant” that was going around. Ironically, out of our family of five (5), our little love who was the sickest out of our littles back in January of 2020 was the only one to not get any symptoms. 🙏🏼 She too, has been quarantined the most from school, due to close contacts and has been around many of her little friends in other situations, who also were Covid positives and thankfully never caught it again 🤷🏻‍♀️ that we know of …

So, I still have some symptoms that are off and on. My back will hurt ever so often, but my smell is vaguely returning 🙏🏼 and my taste isn’t as altered as it once was either!!!! 🙌🏻 🙏🏼 🙌🏻

So, we never tested positive for Covid 🦠, (either time actually), but we are going off of our symptoms and those that are in our inner circle, our families, our friends, close contacts, etc. We have now been in quite a few social situations, where friends and other family, have come down with Covid, and we all have been fine! 🙏🏼

Praying Covid continues to lessen now and weaken!!! 🙏🏼