Lesa woke me around midnight to take my temperature, 101.7, so she gave me a couple of Ibuprofen. I covered up because I had the chills. Woke up to the 6a school alarm, called the bus driver, found out Lesa already called her. Went back to sleep. Lesa woke me to call the doctor, left a voice message and they said they’d call back, four hours later no call back so I called them again and was mad this time, still no callback so found a testing center in Bloomington and get tested tomorrow at 9:50a, dropping IU Health first chance I get. Let work know my status, let the boys baseball teams know the kids are quarantined, Lesa let the school know, Bruce upset they miss their first day of school, this just sucks. I was sore and didn’t want to get up, I remember an article about a COVID survivor who said get up and move even when you don’t want too, breathe and get the stuff moving in and out of your lungs, so I got up and moved. I swear I could feel my lungs filling up with junk. I got the mower out, aired the tires, filled it with gas, and I cut most of the yard. Left half the side yard because it had a lot of the kids’ stuff so I asked them to clean it up, finished cutting the grass this afternoon. Then I starting putting the push mower I bought last week together, Dillan watched from a distance, then it was supper. I ate on the porch, Ashley ate at the other end of the table, Lesa got a tape measure to make sure we were far enough apart. I finished putting the mower together, cut a little section with it, wiped the handle and turned it over to Dillan and he cut another section on the side of the house. The kids needed someone brave with them to go into the woods so I finished cutting so Dillan could go play with them. I took a shower, Lesa and Ashley had a huge fight, both of them are worried and stressed and having trouble keeping emotions in check, got them calmed down from a distance. Lesa is sleeping on Ashley’s lower bunk and using the top drawer of her dresser, it’s hard for us all. I feel like crap still but my fever as dropped to 100.3. My torso is super sore and I can barely draw a good breath to cough it’s so sore. Still have a headache and still sick. FaceTimed with Lesa, and Ashley who got up. I’m going to go to bed in just a few minutes and try to get some more rest.
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