DS came home from School on Wednesday with the start of a cold. He has asthma and every time he has a cold he gets a cough so it was no surprise he woke up on Thursday with a persistent cough. Usually I wouldn’t even worry
BUT...
I am due DC2 now and I have an induction booked for Sunday. I panicked because of my imminent trip to the hospital and I wouldn’t be able to lie if we got there and they asked if anyone in the household has a new persistent cough.
SO
I called 119 and got a text within the hour, drive to the test site and did the best I could to swab him (through lots of gagging) early yesterday morning. The test site was dead and we were in and out very quickly. (I should probably mention that I explained the predicament to the lady on 119 and when I asked about the time for results she said 48hours to 5 days and told me I should think about rearranging my “hospital appointment” which I pointed out is an induction and not really something I can just rearrange)
I haven’t had the results yet (I know it’s only been 30 hours but yesterday afternoon I lost some of my plug and more this morning so things could be on the move, if not it’s now only 40 hours until I have to go to hospital for my induction.
I stupidly assumed that the result would come quickly as the test site was so quiet.
Have you recently had a test in the South East? Particularly West Sussex? How long did your results take?
What do I do if I go into labour?! Or if the results aren’t here by Sunday?
I’m 100% sure it’s just a cold. I’m panicking because I believe that my DH won’t be allowed in with me if I either spontaneously go into labour or in for an induction before I get a negative result.
I could just cry about it all!