If you have one person in your home with symptoms… how are you dealing with it all?

[Seewhathappenslebowski]

Very luckily, we are able to have a room each- my other half has a bedroom and so do both of the kids.
I’m hanging out and sleeping in the front room.
There was a lot of contact between the kid with symptoms and my other half just prior to the kid getting sick, so we are expecting my other half to come down with it soon.

We hang out in our rooms.
The sick child has a room with En-suite and we are taking stuff up and down for him. He’s not coming out of that area just now.
He has a bed, computer and books ( he’s an older teen)

In the more communal areas in the house, we are wearing masks and trying not to be in the kitchen at the same time.
We meet and chat snd have been eating in the garden too.

Does this sound bonkers?
I’m trying so hard to try to stay well in case my other half gets sick and so I can look after him and then no doubt get it after him!
We are both double vaccinated but kids too young

I pretty much follow your measures when someone has a sickness bug in our house! Sounds sensible to me. Hope you avoid it. Get all the windows open.

I’m not bonkers then!
Phew

I'm on my last day of isolating. I've been holed up in the bedroom for the duration. DH sleeping on the sofa downstairs. DC and he together daily as normal. We only have one bathroom so I've been wearing mask and disinfecting everything after I've been in. Meals etc left outside my door. I really wouldn't want to infect anyone if I could avoid it so whilst it's been a pain and very very hot I wouldn't do any other.

I can understand that when you have young children who are ill you can't isolate them from the rest of the house, but when it's a teen, why wouldn't you? They're in their rooms pretty much all the time anyway.

I'm very glad we took these precautions as it's meant that we didn't catch it and I don't have to be stuck in the house for another 10 sodding days!

I remained in a room alone, I was actually really very unwell. Food and drink was brought to me. DH and I FaceTimed and when it was DS birthday we had a FaceTime dinner though I could barely eat. It took me almost five months to get back to my usual energy levels and even now over a year later I feel I tire more easily.

That’s why I worry about DH or DS getting it, well anyone really. They aren’t in high risk groups but I have never had a post viral fatigue like the covid one and I have been unlucky enough to have had real flu twice which took a couple of months to recover from each time.

I was the positive case in our house. I stayed in my bedroom and used the downstairs bathroom. My husband brought food to me (he wore a mask). If I left my bedroom i sanitised my hands first and wore a mask. I tried not to touch anything outside of my room. I kept a distance from anyone else and sat in the garden occasionally. I felt pretty poorly so slept a lot anyway. Nobody else developed symptoms or had a positive LF. My children are pre-teen and teen so I guess it was a bit easier for me to take a back seat for a while.

@Justarandompersonontheinternet

I was the positive case in our house. I stayed in my bedroom and used the downstairs bathroom. My husband brought food to me (he wore a mask). If I left my bedroom i sanitised my hands first and wore a mask. I tried not to touch anything outside of my room. I kept a distance from anyone else and sat in the garden occasionally. I felt pretty poorly so slept a lot anyway. Nobody else developed symptoms or had a positive LF. My children are pre-teen and teen so I guess it was a bit easier for me to take a back seat for a while.

My bedroom is downstairs so I wasn’t up and down the stairs to use the bathroom.

I was wondering if all the people who managed to contain it had the delta and it seems some of you have.
My kid is negative on lft and PCR tests so far but has a fever still and a headache so we are taking all the precautions we can for now.

OP you don't find out what variant you have, but in my daughter's case she was very snotty so I would assume so.

Yeah
I would think all of the more recent cases are delta.
Sympathy to all those who had to go through it - it sounds hard going

We carried on as normal both times. My 10 year old had it in April and I've just had it

DH had Covid and we just carried on largely as normal though no hugs/kisses/sharing cutlery etc obviously. Given how transmissible it is and mainly spread by aerosols, found it rather pointless to try to split up into parts of the house.

Both DH and I are double vaxxed. Me and kids have tested negative throughout. DH had it mild so all good.

There's only DH and I and if one of us get it we'll be carrying on as normal. We've no other choice as we have one bedroom and one bathroom.