Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Covid

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Original poster

Feeling guilty releasing DS from self-isolation

42 replies

TumbyTumm · 12/07/2021 07:21

His time is ‘up’ on Wednesday - and for his sake I feel I have to send him in… but there is still active COVID in the house and it feels somehow reckless to assume it’s fine to put him back into the mix of the crowded school. LTF says he are clear. His sister had full on COVID, but he never tested positive or showed symptoms (though the delta symptoms are much more subtle - his sister’s symptoms were ‘tired’ and ‘headache’)

OP posts:
Original poster
TumbyTumm · 12/07/2021 09:41

Honestly - I am trying - but this isolation has been ‘on our nerves’ for so many different reasons that this thread would start to read implausible if I tried to list them. There have a been a lot of ‘reversals’ over the last few weeks and none of us know if we’re coming or going.

OP posts:
ColettesEarrings · 12/07/2021 09:44

So when is his end of term?! You can take a good degree of control and certainty back if it's this Friday, by not sending him back.

ssd · 12/07/2021 11:29

@TumbyTumm i agree. Its really difficult. Best wishes to you Flowers

Tatapie · 12/07/2021 16:01

Same situation here. Feels wrong but those are the guidelines AND in a months time no ones going to be self isolating at allConfusedfrom close contact ( unless adult non jabbed x 2 +2 weeks to be specific!)

Stevie77 · 12/07/2021 16:22

We’ve had kind of the same issue here so I do empathise with you. I got Covid and we isolated until last Last Thursday. Half way through our isolation DH (who’s double vaxxed) comes down with it. He is isolating until Weds.

Even though T&T have categorically confirmed to us a number of times that the kids, who had no symptoms, were free from isolation I got it in the neck from one of my son’s friend’s parent that we should all still be isolating and it has caused a huge amount of unpleasantness between us. For me, my kids had no symptoms and frankly have been through enough this year to be ‘punished’ further and stay home another 5 days.

poshme · 12/07/2021 16:45

We have exactly the same issue.
Except that I can't physically get my kids who are allowed back to school TO school as I'm not allowed to leave the house.

I don't think I can ask someone to give them a lift...

Lemons1571 · 12/07/2021 21:07

Same here too. DS’s positive. DS2 is going back while DS3 is still in his 10 day isolation.

I’m following the actual rules, not the ones people like to make up, about having to wait until the last positive persons 10 days is up.

KittenFace · 14/07/2021 06:53

Exactly the same situation here too. DS1 had it and DH caught it towards the back end of his isolation period. It really doesn't sit right with me sending them both in, especially DS2 who has tested negative throughout?

Lemons1571 · 14/07/2021 07:04

I have a slightly easier decision, the two positives in our house are the two school age kids. So they aren’t going to return to school and then bring covid back home for the start of the holidays, as they’ve just recovered from it.

They might be told to isolate as contacts, but quite frankly how does the science support them harbouring a new covid infection 12 days after harbouring the first one??

SquashMinusIsShit · 14/07/2021 12:48

What did you decide OP

KittenFace · 15/07/2021 10:38

Turns out my instincts were right- I have today tested positive and DS has came back inconclusive. If his comes back positive he will take down his whole year group (as guidelines state that he had to go back to school after the first 10 day isolation). This will lead to the cancellation of their Holy Communion (for the second time), two major events for his sports team, and weekends away that I know that at least five of his friends' families have booked this weekend.

I feel so guilty I wish I hadn't have sent him in Sad

ssd · 15/07/2021 20:20

What a rotten situation for you to be in Sad

Sausageroll67 · 15/07/2021 20:29

Do NOT waste another PCR test on him! You are not supposed to test if you have had covid within the last 90 days as a test will probably come back positive.

I know you didnt say that OP but it's been suggested.

Sausageroll67 · 15/07/2021 20:31

@Quartz2208

I would get him a PCR test - there is a tick box to say you have been told too by an authority and he should be anyway
As per my PP do not test on PCR within 90 days of testing positive.
Quartz2208 · 15/07/2021 21:06

He never had COVID @Sausageroll67 not as far as I can tell - he was the who didn't if he had why would there be any guilt?

Sausageroll67 · 15/07/2021 21:16

OK Im tired I read that he did

uktrippin · 15/07/2021 21:35

Why was he marched out of school Confused

After his 10 full days is up then you can just send him back.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread