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[mumof52468]

Are you staying away from your positive relative? My dp is day 7 from symptoms day 6 from pcr and I've kept him in our daughters room. He uses the same toilet but comes out in a mask and I anti bac it after he uses ! He thinks I'm being harsh but I have children and my self to keep safe xx

While waiting for DD7's pcr results we did. We slept downstairs (we have a bathroom downstairs and upstairs) and she had a great time in her room with baskets of snacks and drinks and toys. I know it's not possible for everyone and it would be cruel to keep a child locked up in a box room but thankfully we had the space and she was very comfortable.

@Numbertime I'm so sorry 😞

No. DS aged 10 is positive. Locking him up for 10 days would be an insane strategy. Myself and DD are still negative, this is day 7.

No
I didn't isolate myself from dh and dd when I had covid.
They didn't test positive.

I tried to isolate from my family but they were crap at feeding me so I quit! It was for their benefit I was keeping away but I woke up at 9am starving the first morning and didn’t get a bowl of cereal brought up until 11:15 even though I had asked several times. Then the next day I was again told 5 minutes because they just wanted to jump in the shower first so I put a mask on and got my own. In the afternoon I had a banging headache and realised I hadn’t had a drink all day so asked for some juice bringing up and DP moaned he had just sat down (the ring camera disagreed) so I decided from then on I would stay out of the way to “recover” and I wasn’t looking after anybody else but I was going to sort my own food and drinks instead of staying isolated. DP caught it from me and was slightly worse than me but still not horrifically ill- I acted very similarly because I wanted him to see how it felt being left to wait.

Nope, didn’t isolate in the slightest from my dd & none of us got it. Can’t think of anything more weird than shutting your child in a room for 10 days.

We tried to but it didn't work and ds and I both ended up positive

DD19 isolated in an en-suite room and had her meals and drinks left outside the door. No one else caught it but because of CEV DH she had been doing daily LFT and so was alerted a few days pre symptoms. We are in a bungalow and it was summer so doors and windows were all open - she just masked up to walk outside to the garden from her room each day to sit in the sun with her music. So overall she didn’t have too bad a time and no one else got it. Appreciate that not everyone has that layout / space / option though

No definitely not, couldn't expect anyone to stay in the same room for 10 days. We are a household of 4 and we all got it - kids barely noticed, me and DH ill but alright. None of us high risk, both under 40 and kids under 5. This was pre-vaccine, I'd be even less inclined now.
Was worse that dd recently got a stomach bug which we all caught - 4 people and 1 toilet was not the one!!

Which makes it all the more irritating that I have to be locked into a hotel room for 10 days, despite not having covid, for committing the crime of visiting family in Africa. Friends and neighbours going about their daily business despite having people in their households with covid. I'm in locked in here with inedible food at the cost of 2.5k.

@CloudPop omg I'm so sorry 😞 how shit! So do u have to pay that ?

Yes I have to pay that. To be locked in a hotel room for 10 days. Thanks for the sympathy. It's unbelievably awful.

Nope. My husband caught it from work. Aside from sleeping in the spare room and not having direct contact with our 3 month old, we used the same toilet, kitchen etc. Didn’t go to any special trouble of wiping down door handles etc. Neither me nor baby caught it.

If we get it we won't isolate from each other, we can't as we don't have the space.

I caught Covid in January but didn't isolate from my DH and DS21. I was pretty poorly (had an afternoon in hospital at one point) and DH insisted on still sleeping in our bed so he could check on my breathing. My DH and DS tested positive 5 days later although had it much milder thank goodness.

I was worried sick about giving it to my elderly mother though. We had kept away from her for weeks when we had cases of Covid in my school. 3 days before I tested positive I had had her in my car whilst I took her to get her 2nd jab. Thank God she didn't catch it from me!

We didn't isolate. 3 year old DS caught it first then DH and I tested positive a few days later. We're both under 40, I'm fully vaccinated and DH and DS are unvaccinated. We were all fine, just mild cold symptoms...I can't see the point in trying to isolate unless you're CEV, may as well get it over with at the same time!