Three weeks ago my husband went for his colonoscopy and a few days later we found out he has a very small cancerous legion they believe to be stage 1, but we won't know definitively until surgery. Surgery was scheduled for this coming Monday and he had his COVID19 test this past Wednesday, on Friday we found out he tested positive. No symptoms, no fever, and he was cutting the lawn when they called him.
Pre this test, when we found out about the cancer, we decided he would shelter in place and I would limit outings to the store. However, I had already signed contracts to move my 86 year old mother from St. Louis to Atlanta. We were over the top careful because we knew if he tested positive, he would have to wait 30 days for surgery. I went to St. Louis and packed up my mom's belongings and the only outing he had was to help move my mom a few days later. In those two days he went to 5 gas stations, 4 drive thru's for food, and stayed in a hotel overnight. Otherwise, we were by ourselves in my mom's condo and loading things onto a truck. I share this information for two reasons, the first being we would have never known my husband had COVID19 if it weren't for his surgery and we would have never tested. Second, we were over the top obsessive with masks, distancing, hand washing, cloroxing credit cards/fast food cups/gas pumps, etc during these past few weeks to insure he wouldn't test positive. It's a virus folks, it's airborne, you are walking through it, it's on your clothes, your skin and it's on those masks you wear. I'm not going to down play the fact this virus can be serious, but I like
@quitthedrama applaud getting back to life and feel people are picking and choosing what they feel the end all of protection and safety is. An asymptomatic person wearing a mask full of COVID19 the way
90% of people wear and use masks is not going to protect your loved one, and my husband was social distancing to the extreme.
@AndyT_T the negative comments from my husband's doctor on using Budesonide/Pulmicort was steroids suppress the immune system and can possibly cause further complications from infection, however, he said there are studies in the works on steroid inhalers. I encourage anyone that has COVID19 to speak to their doctor about treatment, he said they are learning things daily about this virus and
all treatments have risks. My husband's Dr said if my husband presents with any symptoms his first choice is to prescribe HCQ early on, but without symptoms there's no reason to treat.