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My Dad Has Coronavirus. I Don’t Know If I Should Say Goodbye.

by pw on 3/26/20, 8:45 PM with 1 comments

• by soganess on 3/27/20, 7:04 AM

  This is my greatest fear at the moment. My grandfather is 93; my parents, aunts, and uncles are all over 60. They keep asking me to drive home and WFH with them, but I keep making excuses why I can't.

  Really, I'm just worried. I work at (and live blocks away from) one of the first hospital in the USA that treated someone with COVID 19. My partner just did rounds directly interacting with patients at a different hospital. I don't work with patients and I feel fine. Yet, every time they ask, I think about the last time I had a sore throat from eating food that was too hot, or the last time I coughed unexpectedly and I wonder if I'm just carrying it.

  It's hard to explain to the people you love, the people you think are strong, that you're worried they're "too frail", and you're too high risk. So you just keep coming up with excuses and hoping this will pass.