I Sort-Of Have Covid!
Mar. 4th, 2022 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taz_39Imagine my surprise today when, shortly after my rapid test, I got a text that said,
"Can you come back downstairs? I want to redo your test."
I thought, ok, whatevs, my test came out weird. It happens sometimes.
I took another one.
And then went for a walk because I wanted to hit the pharmacy and a thrift store.
Got to the pharmacy and got a call from our covid manager, Annie (name changed to protect).
"Your tests are coming back with a faint line on the positive side. Go to this address and have them give you a PCR."
Ok NOW I was freaked out.
I went and got the PCR, came back to the hotel for another rapid, then ran back outside to walk some anxiety out.
(If we are asymptomatic, we are allowed to walk around outdoors responsibly.)
I feel completely fine, not a sniffle nor a sore throat nor a fever, no aches, no nothing. Totally normal.
They've found a local sub for me for tonight, and hopefully by tomorrow I'll have my PCR results, and I'll be given another rapid.
If both the PCR and the rapid are negative, I'll get to go back to work.
If not, I'll have to hole up for potentially five days, with today being Day One.
That will mean traveling separately from everyone when we go to Tulsa, and possibly missing opening night there as well.
BLAAAAARGH SO INCONVENIENT.
I'm grateful that the company handles it so well, but it's still upsetting to be sitting in a hotel room while the show is going on without me tonight. Because I don't have symptoms, it feels unfair.
But, I get it. Just, ARGH.
"Can you come back downstairs? I want to redo your test."
I thought, ok, whatevs, my test came out weird. It happens sometimes.
I took another one.
And then went for a walk because I wanted to hit the pharmacy and a thrift store.
Got to the pharmacy and got a call from our covid manager, Annie (name changed to protect).
"Your tests are coming back with a faint line on the positive side. Go to this address and have them give you a PCR."
Ok NOW I was freaked out.
I went and got the PCR, came back to the hotel for another rapid, then ran back outside to walk some anxiety out.
(If we are asymptomatic, we are allowed to walk around outdoors responsibly.)
I feel completely fine, not a sniffle nor a sore throat nor a fever, no aches, no nothing. Totally normal.
They've found a local sub for me for tonight, and hopefully by tomorrow I'll have my PCR results, and I'll be given another rapid.
If both the PCR and the rapid are negative, I'll get to go back to work.
If not, I'll have to hole up for potentially five days, with today being Day One.
That will mean traveling separately from everyone when we go to Tulsa, and possibly missing opening night there as well.
BLAAAAARGH SO INCONVENIENT.
I'm grateful that the company handles it so well, but it's still upsetting to be sitting in a hotel room while the show is going on without me tonight. Because I don't have symptoms, it feels unfair.
But, I get it. Just, ARGH.
