The good news is that so far I'm symptom free. I was in more or less full quarantine for three days last week from Monday to Wednesday. That was actually harder than expected. Both of me and for Jack and the kids. I found it surprisingly difficult to be just in one room for the three days. In hindsight I guess it felt a little like being in prison. Note to self: good that I have cleverly managed to avoid prison up until now and should continue to avoid it in the future. It was also so strange on the one hand to work from my bedroom as a therapist, and then be on my bed (aka couch) for the training analysis. Very very strange mix of feelings and roles.
In the rest of the time I tried to do any leftover organisational work that was possible to do and then watched TV. I thought about reading something... but then in the process of constant migration between the camping table and the bed, the bed seduced me more. I binge watched the second season of Big Little Lies - oh, so good! And then started watching the new Swiss TV Series on Netflix "Freud" - I mean, I really had no choice on the matter there after I saw the title. The series is really mostly terrible at best, but vastly entertaining. Needless to say that I put on a whole extra 1kg just sitting on my bum for three days. The scales on Thursday basically said "and you were expecting maybe?"
To work out how long I should separate myself from the kids and Jack I used the information on WHO website as a guide, which said that the mean incubation time of the virus is 5-6 days. I've also been listening to daily podcasts of Christian Drosten, who is a Berlin virologist from the Charite hospital, and is basically considered God currently by most Germans, as he's providing information in a very down to earth and calm manner and advises without creating panic. He said that in the latest scientific study from Hong Kong the mean incubation time of 90 patients was 5.2 days. Thus Jack and I decided that if I was symptom free on Thursday (being 9 days after my contact with the infected patient) that I should come out. And so I did. And if felt good.
As of Saturday I've been getting daily calls from the health authority to check if I'm still symptom free. Tomorrow, on the 31st of March it will be two weeks and if I am still symptom free, then they will pass my information onto a public health officer who will officially pronounce me healthy and officially end my quarantine. I can't wait for it to happen so I can finally go for a run. I don't think I've ever anticipated being outside quite as much as now. In fact I can't remember the last time I stayed indoors for 9 days straight. Maybe when I was in hospital with meningitis as an eight year old...
In the meantime as a family we've been trying to entertain ourselves with board games. We seem to be going roughly through one game a week before everyone gets tired of it. A few weeks back it was Monopoly. Then it was an old game of Jack's called Game of Life - where kids were introduced to concepts of insurance and shares and stock market speculation. Last week we started on Quirkle. And for this week I ordered us an edition of Snakes and Ladders - we'll see how that goes.
Funny how everyone reading this will be doing so stuck at home all at the same time.
Stay healthy!!!
In the rest of the time I tried to do any leftover organisational work that was possible to do and then watched TV. I thought about reading something... but then in the process of constant migration between the camping table and the bed, the bed seduced me more. I binge watched the second season of Big Little Lies - oh, so good! And then started watching the new Swiss TV Series on Netflix "Freud" - I mean, I really had no choice on the matter there after I saw the title. The series is really mostly terrible at best, but vastly entertaining. Needless to say that I put on a whole extra 1kg just sitting on my bum for three days. The scales on Thursday basically said "and you were expecting maybe?"
To work out how long I should separate myself from the kids and Jack I used the information on WHO website as a guide, which said that the mean incubation time of the virus is 5-6 days. I've also been listening to daily podcasts of Christian Drosten, who is a Berlin virologist from the Charite hospital, and is basically considered God currently by most Germans, as he's providing information in a very down to earth and calm manner and advises without creating panic. He said that in the latest scientific study from Hong Kong the mean incubation time of 90 patients was 5.2 days. Thus Jack and I decided that if I was symptom free on Thursday (being 9 days after my contact with the infected patient) that I should come out. And so I did. And if felt good.
As of Saturday I've been getting daily calls from the health authority to check if I'm still symptom free. Tomorrow, on the 31st of March it will be two weeks and if I am still symptom free, then they will pass my information onto a public health officer who will officially pronounce me healthy and officially end my quarantine. I can't wait for it to happen so I can finally go for a run. I don't think I've ever anticipated being outside quite as much as now. In fact I can't remember the last time I stayed indoors for 9 days straight. Maybe when I was in hospital with meningitis as an eight year old...
In the meantime as a family we've been trying to entertain ourselves with board games. We seem to be going roughly through one game a week before everyone gets tired of it. A few weeks back it was Monopoly. Then it was an old game of Jack's called Game of Life - where kids were introduced to concepts of insurance and shares and stock market speculation. Last week we started on Quirkle. And for this week I ordered us an edition of Snakes and Ladders - we'll see how that goes.
Funny how everyone reading this will be doing so stuck at home all at the same time.
Stay healthy!!!
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