On January 25, 2022, as the entire Chinese prepared for the New Year with joy, the N-wave COVID-19 epidemic on the French side reached its highest level on record: 500,000 positive cases per day.
More than 500,000 new cases of COVID-19 in France in a single day | Courtesy of the author
At this juncture, the father of the two babies received a temporary work task - to go to Italy for three days on a business trip. I don't like to take a baby, and my health is poor, and when I think of working alone with a baby for a week, I am depressed to death.
After surviving the days when the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, Friday, January 28 finally ushered in the day of family reunion. But on the night he returned home, he received a not-so-unexpected notice - the Italian translator brother who had worked with him for three days was diagnosed with new crown pneumonia.
We took immediate action: We booked a PCR nucleic acid test for the child's father on Monday, and began to let him wear a mask at home that night.
The next Saturday, it was Erbao's birthday, because the menstrual period was close to the overwork of the previous few days, and I was worried that the child's father would be recruited, so I was upset and only bought a cake and made a simple longevity noodle.
And on this night, the child's father began to have symptoms. First the headache, then the discomfort in the throat, then the fever.
Chinese New Year's Eve night the whole family was there
But there was no way to eat a reunion dinner
Monday happened to be Chinese New Year's Eve, and early in the morning the child's father went to test it. After a day of anxiety, although I was fully prepared mentally, I still couldn't accept it at the moment of receiving the results. It's really positive!
The test results showed that the strain he was infected with was the very contagious Amy Kerong, which is currently raging in Europe. This strain is relatively less susceptible to lung infection, so most patients are mild. For the hundreds of thousands of new cases every day, the French government has taken only seven days of isolation at home.
Without further ado, I immediately isolated him, carefully ventilated and disinfected the house, and then prepared a Chinese New Year's Eve meal alone, and then went to school to pick up the two children.
Chinese New Year's Eve night is a joyous celebration, and everyone is eating a reunion dinner. I wore a mask and carefully made six dishes with very meaningful names, one of which was called "Family Reunion". But this meal, the family ate separately. The child's father ate alone in the room, and the two children were separated by a meter apart at the table, and I did not come to the table until after the children had finished eating.
Look at me very unhappy, the child's father ridiculed: you see, this is the real "resignation (age) welcome (crown)"!
Test result negative
There was a hint of disappointment in my heart
On Tuesday, February 1st, the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, as a close contact, I took both of my children to go for PCR nucleic acid testing. At this time, I have begun to feel uncomfortable, but there is still a glimmer of hope in my heart, maybe just too tired and too nervous.
Always sane, I took the best precautions I could: my father isolated himself in the room, and I wore a mask to move around in other areas. Children can't go to school until the nucleic acid results come out, they have to play at home. I tried to keep them less in touch, one in the living room and one in the room.
In the evening, the results of the three people came out, all negative, which made us slightly relieved. The child's father rushed to report peace in the family group, but I was very anxious because my symptoms were becoming more and more obvious - headaches, fatigue, and a bad throat, exactly the same as the symptoms of the child's father.
That night, I slept alone in the living room. I got up at four in the morning and went to the toilet once, and when I lay down again, I felt cold. I realized I had a fever and was in the process of rising body temperature. This confirms my suspicions that I am already infected.
The next day, early Wednesday morning, I sent my baby to school, so I took out the test strip and tested it myself, and the result was still negative. This made me feel a little disappointed in my heart. At this time, I was very tired and very uncomfortable, but I still had to hold on to everything, and if I was positive, I could naturally lie flat.
The whole family only has two treasures left
Papa calls him a "sinister villain"
Just this morning, Dabao also began to have a headache at school. When I picked up the baby at noon, I was in a trance. If the big treasure has been infected, then there is a good chance that the second treasure will not be able to escape.
Having said that, we must still do our best to obey the fate of heaven. That night, I changed the quarantine plan: Dad continued to isolate alone, Erbao slept in a room by himself, and I took Dabao to sleep in the living room. To avoid infecting each other, I slept with a mask on.
On the morning of Thursday, February 3rd, we tested Erbao on test strips according to the regulations, negative, so we sent them to school. Dabao did not have a class due to the school teacher strike that day, and when I returned home after sending the second treasure, I did a test strip test with Dabao. The result was expected: I and Dabao were both positive. Coupled with the first positive father, our family can be regarded as "Sanyang Kaitai"!
At this time, my heart was full of mixed feelings: first of all, I could finally lie flat, and I must "take revenge" for the father of the child who has been the treasurer for the past few days; secondly, I found a terrible fact, that is, there is a certain delay in the test, and there is at least two days between the appearance of symptoms and the ability to test positive; at present, only the smallest second treasure in the family is negative, it is very dangerous at home, and we can't go out, who sent him to school?
And so we spent Friday in infinite entanglement. In order to protect the only second treasure in the family who has not yet been recruited (my father said that this child with negative test results and high risk of infection is a veritable "sinister villain"), the whole family except for him is wearing a mask, and my father came out to take care of the baby to do housework, and I went into the house to lie flat.
I had been observing Dabao's condition, but fortunately I only had a low-grade fever, plus a slight runny nose and cough. What I've always worried about is that adults are full of three doses of vaccines, but the children have not yet been vaccinated, in case it is a serious illness.
On Saturday evening, Erbao, who was playing well in the room alone, suddenly fell asleep. At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, he also began to have headaches. So I knew that all the efforts of the past few days had been in vain. It is also true that the one that the whole family wants to protect with all their might will eventually be infected.
Sent a circle of friends to know
It turns out that many people in France have had to
I am a person who can't hide things in my heart, and the news of the new crown of the whole family sent a circle of friends at the first time. Unexpectedly, friends in France came to comfort and said that they had experienced infections of themselves or their families. By a cursory count, these people make up at least half of my circle of friends in France. In fact, if you think about it, there are only 60 million people in France, and if you follow the rate of 500,000 per day, you can repeat it in more than three months.
The words of my friends made me know that I was not alone, and that the symptoms of the whole family were not serious, which also strengthened my confidence to recover health as soon as possible.
As described by a friend infected with the Omiljung strain, our family had mild respiratory symptoms in addition to the initial headache and low-grade fever: dry throat, occasional cough, and a small amount of phlegm. In addition, we will feel easily tired, appetite slightly decreased, but do not lose the sense of taste. Our family was very lucky, the overall symptoms were similar to the flu, and after about five days the test results turned negative. The mildest symptom in my family was the last infected Erbao, who only had a low-grade fever overnight, and did not even have coughing symptoms.
Since the beginning of February, European countries have begun to relax policies, and the French government has also announced that it will slowly abolish the health card system and free testing.
It has been several weeks since the discovery of the child's father being infected, the symptoms of the whole family have completely disappeared, no one has obvious sequelae, and the babies have long been alive and kicking. We finally put our minds at ease and could hang out with the whole family on the weekends!
Sharing personal experience does not constitute a diagnosis and treatment recommendation, can not replace the doctor's individual judgment of a specific patient, if you need to go to a regular hospital.
Author: The Metaphor of the Night
Editors: Lu Pan, Dai TianYi
