Much delayed about nothing

It has definitely been a week or two since my last post, and I'm not really sure what all has happened in the interim.

Last week was an absolute nightmare though, I can say for sure. Early in the week, my wife had come down with the beginnings of a sore throat and other cold-like symptoms. She used to get bronchitis basically every year, but that has not happened in quite some time (since we started getting healthier, really). We kind of blew it off as weather changing and sinus back-fill type of deal. But, things just kept not getting better and she came home early from work on the Monday. Took Tuesday off sick. Either Tuesday or Wednesday called around to set up a doctor appointment (which is its own story, I'll get to that later), decided afterwards to take a covid test just for the hell of it. The first test - near immediate positive for covid result.

Ouch. Okay, so lets try another test, just to be safe. Positive as well.

Okay, how about a "control" test with no sample, just to be on the super sure side. That one was negative, of course (no sample and all).

Dammit. We've got covid in the house.

It's, uh, been awhile (I see what I did there, completely unintentional) since we've had this crap in the house. Third time for her. Second time for me.

Thankfully, it only held us in its grip for about a week, give or take, and it did let us keep our taste - insomuch as one can actually taste anything when you can't flippin' smell your food.

It was a week of what felt like the un-flu. Good times were had by all. At least our kiddos at home stayed unaffected. Unless the youngest had brought it home earlier in the month. Which is possible, I suppose, as he was down for about a week at one point as well.

I had mentioned the whole thing about getting a doctor appointment being something of its own ordeal, if you remember. Our primary care family doctor, whom my wife has been seeing for over half her life at this point and who I've been seeing for nearly twenty years as well now, has left the practice that we use. Which is amazing for her, but not so much for us. She has started her own practice as a concierge medical service - which is awesome - and no longer has to deal with insurance. If we could somehow come up with the approximately 200 bucks a month to pay for the membership (that's the family rate) then we would absolutely take advantage of that in a heartbeat. I for one like the idea and believe that she is 100 percent worth it. Unfortunately, we would still need to carry insurance, you know….for everything else.

So, now we've (well, my wife, because she's awesome and amazing) has been making contact with some other providers in town and we think we've found someone that we want to move the family over to. It's tough, challenging, scary, everything and more, when trying to find a new medical provider. Especially when you've only dealt with the single individual for so long. Building those relationships is a long road.

Hopefully things are going to go okay on the path that we've opted for.