Covid 19 False Alarm

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Thanksgiving Day was fine. My daughter and Hua the Chihuahua arrived and we started getting the meal together, ate about mid-afternoon and got things cleaned up, then watched some tv that evening. Friday morning, I got up before six and played with Hua while my daughter drove down the street to Starbucks for treats. Anne stayed in bed for another hour. By about 9 AM, I felt more tired than I should and spent much of the rest of the morning lazily in my recliner. We took the dog for a walk that afternoon, ate leftovers, watched tv and went to bed early. On Saturday, my daughter left early. I started some laundry, did a few things around the house and then the fatigue returned. This was very unusual, since I generally have a lot of energy, so Anne checked my temperature and it was just over 100 (37.7 C), so we decided that two symptoms were enough and headed for a local urgent care office to be tested for Covid. The place was quiet when we got there. They checked our temperatures and oxygen levels right away. My slight fever was confirmed. Anne’s was normal but her oxygen level was rather low, so they told me to take her to the hospital emergency room immediately, which I did. We both ended up in separate rooms there, blood was drawn from us in many small vials, chest x-rays were made. The Covid tests where they stick a long cotton swab far up your nose was done. Our rooms were not close together and there were different doctors and nurses, but my nurses went to check on Anne for me since she did not have her phone. Too make a too long story shorter, I’ll say that Anne had a pocket of pneumonia in one lung. They kept her overnight and I brought her home just a while ago, pausing in the middle of this to do so. At least neither of us has Covid-19!