Week Eight (October 11-14) 

This week was horrible in all honesty. It started off great, with Fall Reading Days on Monday and Tuesday. I worked the welcome desk 12-2 and worked Student Life from home! On Tuesday night, I started having trouble getting a good breath in. I have asthma, so I didn't think much of it. I have a baby brother (10 months old) and a seven year old brother so COVID would be absolutely devastating to our family if they got it. I got an at-home COVID test on Wednesday morning, it was negative and I wasn't having much shortness of breath so I went about my day. I had a meeting with Chris from 9-9:30am, online, about event planning. I also spent an hour or so making grocery lists for the event, planning invitations for the organizations and UCBA departments, and making the poster for the event...as well as submitting the event to the Thursday announcements. 

I also worked at the Dry Cleaners from 3-7pm. Around 5pm, I started feeling really badly, and even though I had tested negative on an at-home test, I didn't really trust it and I decided to go into quarantine (since I started having multiple symptoms and I was feeling so bad). I quarantined from Wednesday night until Saturday morning...when I got negative results from a PCR test. The quarantine was really hard on me since I play such an active role in my family and am, overall, such an active busy person. Being stuck in my room by myself was worse than I thought and the worst part wasn't even that, it was when my brother, G (7), would knock on my door and ask me if he could come play with me or come cuddle. The first thing I did after receiving a negative result was go and cuddle my brothers! I am still not feeling well, but I don't have to quarantine since I do not have COVID, and that in and of itself makes me feel so much better. I'm still battling shortness of breath and tightness/heaviness in my chest, I can't really talk for too long or walk around very much without feeling completely exhausted. I am actually quite a bit concerned...so I am going to be taking it slow and easy on myself into next week and heal properly instead of forcing myself through it (which is probably what led up to this mess in the first place).