Thanks for nothing Covid Vaccine!

A week and a half ago Hallee got a cold and wasn't feeling very good.  She called me from school on Friday and came home early because she felt sick.  Wyatt came home from school on Friday and said he wasn't feeling good.  Wyatt threw up, which isn't unusual when he has a cold.  They rested all weekend and I kept them home from church on Sunday.  By Monday Hallee was feeling better and she went to school.  Wyatt's stomach was still weird so he stayed home Monday and Tuesday.  Tuesday afternoon he said he was feeling fine so I took him to school and he called me an hour later and said his stomach felt weird again.  I kept him home Wednesday just to be sure, but he seemed to have his energy back and feel okay.  Thursday he was back to normal so he went back to school.  Hallee had a cough on Thursday so I kept her home that day.  I started feeling sick on Monday night and I was in bed until Friday.  I did laundry and showered, but that was all I could do. I was so tired and achy and sometimes I had a fever.  Friday I felt a lot better and was able to get out of bed and get some things done.  I was still tired, but it felt great to finally have some energy.  Saturday was the same, tired, but still felt better.  I did tons of laundry, washed all the bedding and towels since I was hoping we were all better.  Saturday evening Wyatt told me that he couldn't smell, I couldn't smell either, but I could still taste, so I really didn't think I had Covid.  I kept thinking that I'd been vaccinated, so I'm sure it wasn't Covid. When Wyatt told me he couldn't smell I decided we better get tested.  We ran to the testing site at the mall and did a rapid test.  I opened Wyatt's results first and I was relieved to see that he didn't have it.  Next I opened mine and it said I was positive for Covid-19.  It's such a weird, frustrating disease.  I was surprised how sick I was after getting the vaccine. I would imagine that Wyatt and Hallee had it and that they are already past it and that is why Wyatt's test was negative.  I feel terrible that they went to school, but I thought it was just a cold.   It's frustrating that we keep trying so hard to control this dumb disease and most of it is out of our control. 

Tuesday night was an eventful night and pretty much summed up our crummy week last week.  Jonah was living it up at the Jazz game and the rest of us were home with no electricity.  The power went out for 2 1/2 hours.  Hallee has never been through a power outage and she got scared and had a panic attack, which made her think she was going to throw up.  She was in one bathroom and Wyatt was in another because his stomach was still feeling weird.  Caitlyn thought the world was ending and I was just overwhelmed with the whole situation.  Luckily, Keith was calm and helped everyone calm down.  I couldn't find Wyatt and I took a flashlight in the bathroom and found he had fallen asleep.  Poor kid! 

We have all been staying home since we found out I have Covid.  Keith is working form home and the kids are staying home from school.  Caitlyn doesn't want to miss school and the district policy says she can go to school if she wears a mask, so she went to school today, but everyone else stayed home.  We are all going stir crazy already and we are worried this will make it so we can't go to Mexico for Thanksgiving like we were planning.  We are trying to make the best of it.  Hallee and I have had fun watching movies together.  I'm so glad she will watch Christmas movies with me!