Mrs. CHIEF started feeling bad Wednesday, lost her voice, headache, sore throat, bad cough, she chalked it up to allergies. Tested negative on Thursday. I started her on Amoxicillin and Guafinex that I found in the medicine cabinet at her mother's house, in Cedar Park.
Her mother had been in hospice for a week, and finally passed on the same Thursday. The funeral was supposed to be today. Sunday morning, she still wasn't getting better, so I made her take another test, and she tested positive. Talk about a meltdown. No way was she going to miss her mother's funeral. Luckily we were able to postpone it for a week. Here brother has been staying at their mother's house.
I quickly loaded Mrs. CHIEF, and CHIEF Jr. and drove back to Granbury, we stopped at the ER in Glen Rose, where there were zero other patients in the waiting room. They tested her again, and she was for sure positive. The rotating ER doc was our regular doctor, he said he was treating symptoms just like an infection from severe cedar allergies (Guafatussin, dexamethasone, Zpack, and amoxicillin). She is better already, but CHIEF Jr. is about two days behind her, so she is sharing her meds until we can get him a round. He was running 102 degree fever two nights ago. If I have it, which I don't know anyway I could have avoided it at this point, my symptoms are like a mild allergy, almost asymptomatic. We are J&J vaxxed.
To be honest, Austin, Cedar Park, and RR was like a war zone compared to rural areas where people are more spread out. The population centers are getting crushed.
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