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Momservation: <\/strong>There is always something to be learned from God\u2019s grace shining on you.<\/p>\n

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We told him it was safer to stay in Boise when he wanted to come visit us during his spring break in late March.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just shut down California,\u201d my husband told our 20 year-old son. \u201cYou\u2019d go crazy here having to shelter in place. Might as well stay there where there are only a few cases of coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n

But my son couldn\u2019t stay home and do nothing after having to cancel what was supposed to be an epic spring break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Instead, Logan and his girlfriend, Hailey, went to her family\u2019s 22-acre ranch just outside of Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

On their way back home on March 26<\/strong> his roommates called to suggest that Logan and Hailey quarantine for 14 days at Hailey\u2019s house since they left the state. Logan thought it was overkill since both Oregon and Idaho still only had a handful of cases and they never left the ranch, but he agreed.<\/p>\n

The college kids still weren\u2019t very good at social distancing; thinking having just a few friends over to play dye or video games instead of a backyard party for 50 was keeping them safe.<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

Turns out the house they chose to quarantine in already had \u201cThe Rona\u201d (as the kids call it) in it when they got home. Hailey\u2019s roommate had a few friends over the night before they got back who turned out to be asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19.<\/p>\n

And by asymptomatic I mean: these college kids, my son included, walk around with sniffley noses and congested voices sounding and looking like crap all the time, but it\u2019s normally just because they live like vampires and drink like sailors on leave nearly every night. They think it\u2019s normal to always feel like a cold is coming on.<\/p>\n

On April 1<\/strong> we got the call from my son.<\/p>\n

\u201cHailey just called me at work and said I had to come straight home because her roommate just tested positive for Covid-19,\u201d he said sounding stunned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis better not be an April Fool\u2019s joke,\u201d my husband and I said in unison.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause that shit ain\u2019t funny,\u201d my husband added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t joke about this,\u201d Logan said sounding surprisingly unnerved for a kid who does gainers off 60-foot cliffs.<\/p>\n

He continued to say he and Hailey and the other roommates felt fine, but the roommate who tested positive had gone to the doctor three days earlier because she thought she had a bad sinus infection. Her positive results just came back.<\/p>\n

We discussed the protocol for living with someone who is positive for coronavirus, explaining how important it was for her to try to stay isolated and not share her bathroom.<\/p>\n

But there was anxiety in the air (likely along with The Rona) because we all knew it would be difficult to not pick up the virus with all of them in the small 3-bedroom townhouse.<\/p>\n

And news reports were clearly showing that perfectly healthy, young people could also die from Covid-19\u2014seemingly at random.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe diligent about disinfecting. Take your temperature frequently. Call us if you need anything. We love you,\u201d we told him as we hung up the phone 500 miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will. Love you guys too,\u201d our son said.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, safe, little, college-town Boise felt so far away and scary. As parents, it felt awful to hang up the phone and have to just hope and pray for the best outcome for these kids.<\/p>\n

And Logan and Hailey couldn\u2019t just hope they didn\u2019t have it. They immediately drove themselves to a drive-thru testing spot. They wouldn\u2019t have the results for 7-10 days.\"\"<\/p>\n

On April 3<\/strong> my son texted:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m feeling very good today. The best in the last few days.<\/h3>\n

What? He never told us he wasn\u2019t feeling well. We immediately called and grilled him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, we all just kind of felt like it was a sinus thing. Sore throat, headache, a little fatigued. But we never had fevers and never felt bad enough to be laid up in bed. Oh, and we can\u2019t smell anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

We all agreed they likely had the virus but, luckily, might be escaping with mild symptoms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably a good thing my roommates made me quarantine here,\u201d he conceded, knowing he would normally have been going back and forth between his and Hailey\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure,\u201d I said. \u201cThere would have been two houses full of The Rona and that would have been dangerous for your roommate with asthma.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was relief that everyone in their quarantined house seemed to be on the mend, but now cases among Boise students were popping up everywhere.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday,<\/strong> April 8<\/strong> Logan called with the official news: He and Hailey both tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the doctor said since we\u2019ve been quarantining since March 26 and we haven\u2019t had symptoms for over 72 hours, we can resume normal schedules this Friday,\u201d Logan reported and we all finally breathed a sigh of relief. \u201cMy work said they\u2019ll put me back on the schedule next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you are kind of a superhero now,\u201d I joked, feeling good to laugh with my son instead of being filled with dread and worry. \u201cYou have Rona antibodies!\u201d<\/p>\n

So in the end, besides the guilt of sending our son and his girlfriend into Rona-Central instead of letting him come visit, there is a sense of relief that when this plague came knocking on the door for our first-born son\u2026he got passed-over.<\/p>\n

#QuarantineStillWorks\u00a0 #SocialDistanceCorrectly\u00a0\u00a0 #TestTraceIsolateReopen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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