Wednesday
Torpedo, Day 1 (Wednesday): runny nose, red under her eyes signifying she wasn’t feeling well, clingy, and overall lethargic. She did have a cough develop overnight.
Thursday
Sprite, Day 1 (Thursday): slight sniffle, fatigue, minor breathing difficulty when exerting too much, and body aches.
Me, Day 1 (Thursday): earache, growing headache, runny nose, and fatigue.
Torpedo, Day 2: persistent fever of roughly 101, fatigue, congestion, clingy, and woke up overnight due to a coughing fit. I sat up with her for a bit. While I did so, I could literally feel heat radiating off her body through her fleece footed pajamas, zipper blanket, through my robe and pants, onto my leg. I didn’t even take her temperature – I knew it would probably be 102/103. But, I am a firm believer in letting my kiddos have fevers – the heat they produce burns up the virus (whichever one they have at the time). I laid her back down and she slept until morning.
Friday
Torpedo, Day 3: No fever, increased appetite, slightly clingy, residual congestion, and overall energy increase, which is the absolute best when you feel like crap. But, anyway.
Sprite, Day 2: fatigue and a little sniffly, all other symptoms were gone. No body aches, or breathing difficulty. She did go to bed with some slight nausea, but, otherwise, alright.
Me, Day 2: chills (so much so I had on a t-shirt, hoodie, pants, socks and shoes, and a very warm robe, and I was still having chills), headache, decreased appetite, neck pain, earache, fatigue, eye-pain, and decent body aches. My hips felt like someone took a sledgehammer to them, and even my fingers ached.
Banshee, Day 1: headache, very light appetite. She exhibited a headache in the late afternoon, and she doesn’t ever get a headache unless she’s sick.
Tempest, Day 1: earache and body aches (specifically said her ankles hurt), no fever.
Brent, Day 1: felt rundown as the day progressed and experieneced some chills.
Saturday
Torpedo, Day 4: remaining congestion, cough, and a continued decline throughout the day. Increased clinginess and lethargy mixed with bouts of energy that wipe her out afterwards. She her fever returned this evening (101) just before bed.
Me, Day 3: I had night sweats – which is just the best thing ever, slight headache, hips still a little achy, but definitely an improvement from the previous day, fingers still ache some, increased congestion, sneezing, and (new this day) sore throat. Let me tell you what is absolutely amazing – sneezing when you have a sore throat. *pain* I also developed a cough on this day.
Sprite, Day 3: said she generally felt better, but I can tell she’s not completely 100%.
Banshee, Day 2: increased body aches and continued headache, no fever. She was overall in good spirits. Before bed this day she said to me, “Mom, my head hurts, but not just my head, it hurts everywhere.” “That’s body aches sweetie. Go lay down and I’ll get some oils for you.”
Tempest, Day 2: increased body aches (said her ankles and knees hurt), earache, and headache. Generally just feeling run down.
Brent, Day 2: run down, chills, and grumpy. He took a home covid test this day, but it came back negative, which I find super weird.
Sunday
Torpedo (Day 5): She was very clingy this morning, felt warm, but not overly so. This should be her last day on quarantine according to the CDC, but if her fever returns again tonight, we will add a day. She also fell asleep while I used my laptop this morning.
Me (Day 4): Body aches are gone, headache less than the previous days, earache still present, and residual congestion (honestly, I’m treating it with everything I can think of, but waiting for it to shift to a sinus infection).
Sprite (Day 4): She woke up this morning and said she felt a little nauseous and run down.
Tempest (Day 3): she said she feels a little better.
Banshee (Day 3): She woke up this morning with a nasty headache.
Brent (Day 3): Slept most of the morning, not counting the couple of times Torpedo busted through our bedroom door, “DADDY! DADDY!” He also lost his sense of taste and smell today.
Monday
Torpedo (Day 0): significantly better spirits today. Still has some residual congestion, but otherwise, she’s moving about terrorizing everything like a regular almost 2 year old.
Sprite (Day 5): better today. She went for a PCR test just to verify she is negative. She is also VERY GRUMPY this day. We have literally spent the past three days with the TV or their Kindles on pretty much non-stop. Technology detoxes are THE BEST!
Me (Day 5): Body aches are gone (thankfully), and I still have some residual sinus congestion and continued earaches. I did get up and exercise this morning, and it zapped all my energy, but I also needed to get moving a little more than from the couch to the bed.
Tempest (Day 4): Also GRUMPFEST 2022 going on with her. Lots of yelling today, she can’t do anything right, she’s a horrible sister, and everything I ask her to do is of the most immense inconsideration on my part.
Banshee (Day 4): WHINY is the key word for her today. When she’s not doing that, she’s fine – playing with slime sand, doing gymnastics, or dancing to music from Encanto.
Brent (Day 4): said he feels worse today than he did the day before. This morning, he, Sprite, and Tempest went to complete a PCR test. He was annoyed because the lady who swabbed his nose, barely put the giant q-tip in there. *eyeroll* What I didn’t realize until yesterday was the PTSD this whole experience has caused him. If you’ve read any of the posts over the summer about his long, scary, and arduous hospital stint, you’ll understand why. But, due to my own selfishness and personality dealing with things like this, I wasn’t sensitive to that for him. https://lardcupcakes.com/2021/05/05/this-day-7-years-ago/
Tuesday
Torpedo (Day -1): She has some lingering congestion and her energy is up and down, but overall, improved.
Me (Day -0): I tested positive on a home test today. What the heck? I still have a lingering earache, which is super annoying, but otherwise, feeling closer to my normal self.
Sprite (Day -0): She received her PCR test results this afternoon: positive. She was disappointed to get this result today. She feels fine. So, to her it felt like a punch in the gut. “I thought I was all done with it!”
Tempest (Day 5): She received her PCR test results this afternoon too: positive. She was also bummed at these results.
Banshee (Day 5): She told me that only her head hurt today, but not her whole body. But, she didn’t want any essential oils, instead, she wanted to pray that her head wouldn’t hurt when she woke up.
Brent (Day 5): he received his PCR test results today: negative. But, yay! He gained his sense of taste back today. He exclaimed, “hey! I can taste this!” Today, however, he is still very rundown and wiped.
Wednesday
Torpedo (Day -3): Significantly improved. She has been up and playing all day. Clinginess less than the day before. Still congested, but I suppose that will be lingering for a bit.
Me (Day -2): I felt more like myself today than I have since coming down with Covid. It was nice to feel normal.
Sprite (Day -2): She’s back to her normal self.
Tempest Day -1): She’s also back to her normal self.
Banshee (Day -1): Same as above.
Brent (Day 0): Said he felt worse today than the previous day.
Remedies
I am not a doctor, I chose on my own accord, to use these remedies to assist with the alleviation of Covid symptoms. I love using essential oils to help the body fight illness.
Earache: Tea Tree – I put two drops on my pinky fingers, rubbed them together, and swabbed the inside of my ear. Note: I did not, nor should you, drop an essential oil directly into your ear; ears are a very sensitive part of your body. I also took a couple of drops and rubbed them down the side of my neck overtop my lymphnodes.
Headache: Normally I would use Frankincense, but I couldn’t find it, so instead, I used lavender. I placed a couple of drops on the back of my hand, then used my other to swipe it off and rub the drops on to my forehead and temples. I also did this with my kiddos, but with an olive oil dilution.
Congestion: either Eucalyptus Globulous (I know, it’s a super weird sounding name), or Ravinstara on the chest and back. These also work great in a diffuser to assist with night congestion.
Overall wellness: Thieves – 2-3 drops on the girls’ spine, rub in, then some olive oil on top and rubbed in. Children need dilution for essential oils. Their skin is significantly more sensitive than ours.
Cough: Cypress is a great cough helper, I usually take a couple of drops diluted in olive oil and rub on their back overtop their lungs. I also diffuse it with Thieves at night.
Immune boosting: I used a product called Immupro for the girls. It’s a chewable immune helper, but it also has melatonin in it (which I am not a fan of using with my kiddos), so I slice the chewable into 8-10 pieces and give them one. It does help them sleep, which is helpful since your body heals when you sleep, and provides them some internal immune help).
Other helpers: pedialyte popsicles are a huge help as they offer electrolytes, fluid, and (bonus) feels like a treat. I also gave Torpedo some generic Zyrtec to help dry up the runny nose, and will continue to do so until her nose slows down.
Nap: I took a nap on Friday, and before I did so, I had Brent rub some essential oils up and down my spine: Egyptian Gold, Thieves, and Cypress, undiluted.
Rice pack: often times when my head hurts a lot, my shoulders begin scrunching up and assisting with the pain. So, a rice pack is a huge helper with pain relief and overall relaxation.
Points to consider: Brent and I are two-dose vaccinated, but not boosted. Our children are not vaccinated.
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