Bridger tested positive

Bridger started feeling sick over the weekend.  At first he complained that his body just ached and he had a headache (no fever).  We just thought he was going into one of his PFAPA flareups.  He felt this way for a few days.  On Monday he started with a sore throat.  He had his typically cobble stones down the back of it.  This is what he does every couple of months.  On Wednesday, I picked him up from school and I could tell right away that he was sick. I could tell his lymph nodes were swollen because of his voice.  I cancelled his piano lesson for that afternoon.  We came home and I took a look in his throat.  It looked so much worse!  He still had the cobble stone road down his throat but now he had these canker ulcers all around his throat.  The cankers had a bloody ring around them and then he had tiny red dots along the roof of his mouth.  No wonder he couldn't swallow!  I was suspicious that it was strep throat.  He didn't have a fever or a cough so I didn't think it was COVID.  The next day we had a Telehealth visit.  She said she could tell his throat was red and swollen just from the video.  She ordered a strep test and a COVID test.  On Friday, the office called and said that his strep test came back negative.  Then I started worrying about COVID.   His test came back positive for COVID.  He was completely wiped out over the weekend.  He didn't get off the couch.  We quarantined him to the theater room.  On the few occasions that he came upstairs, he wore his mask and when we did Come Follow Me, all of us had masks on and we were socially distanced.  Bridger was such a good sport about it.  Chase had been around him since the previous weekend so we kept them separated and allowed Chase to still go to school.  We were really worried about him getting behind in his college classes.  Bridger struggled with his sore throat, headaches and body aches.  He never ran a fever, not even a low grade one.  It wasn't until the following Wednesday that he developed a cough. But luckily his other symptoms were improving by then.  We kept him home for 10 days.  We quarantined Tanner with him.  Luckily Tanner never got it.  I did an antibody test on him a couple of weeks later and he tested negative.  We were so shocked.  Tanner was glued to Bridger.  We thought for sure Tanner would be positive and just be an asymptomatic case.  Luckily I had been given both of my doses of the vaccine and Matt had received his first dose.  Bridger was the only one that got it.  We were very blessed because Bridger recovered from it with no complications.  

Reading Time

 I had asked Chase to help me put Tanner to bed.  Before I was running out the door, I came back to my bedroom to find this sweet picture of Chase reading to Tanner.  I had to capture it so I could remember this moment forever.  I love how Tanner is snuggled up to Chase.