Michele caught Covid about two weeks ago and she is still testing positive, although she hasn’t had a fever for several days. She is tired but doesn’t have the nasty symptoms she had when she first got it. That is mostly, we think, because her doctor put her on Paxlovid almost immediately. Paxlovid doesn’t get rid of Covid but it does get rid of – or, at least, reduce – the Covid symptoms.

As an aside, I’ve been tested or self-tested about four or five times, and I end up staring at the blank test stick, wondering if the slight shadow is a positive result, it isn’t. When Michele tested, the line came up almost immediately, and it was anything but faint. End aside.

We live in a very small house, and, when Michele got sick, we were faced with the problem of her isolation. Michele’s first suggestion was that she stay in her office in the back corner of the house with all the windows open and out two air filters going full blast. About two hours later, she changed her mind and suggested she get a room in a local hotel.

That worked, but we were both not having a good time, so Michele suggested she move back in and I go on a vacation. That was four days ago and I am back home.