{"id":9628,"date":"2020-12-21T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2020-12-21T18:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:18:30","slug":"surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My COVID-19 test result was POSITIVE<\/strong>. While there is a chance that this is a false positive result, it is far more likely that I either have the virus or had it and didn’t know it. I can’t tell which because I have NO SYMPTOMS<\/strong>. That could be due to me being one of the lucky ones who is not made sick by the virus. Or it could be that I was actually infected previously – perhaps as much as 3 months ago – and had minor symptoms that were never bad enough for me to think I had a potentially deadly disease. The test can show positive due to antibodies from an earlier infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at some point – either now or as some point in the past – I was probably infectious and didn’t know it. I am not aware of anyone who I may have infected with COVID-19, but the possibility that I made someone sick without knowing it bothers me a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ability of this virus to be passed by asymptomatic carriers is one of the characteristics that makes it so insidious. I took the test on a whim and not because I thought I was infected. I have to wonder how many other people like me are out there and haven’t been tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spoke to my doctor today and he agreed that I should isolate myself for at least another week, then take another test. If that test is negative then the first one was probably a false positive. If it is positive then I was definitely infected, but it won’t shed any light on when I was infected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A perfectly crappy end to a perfectly crappy year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My COVID-19 test result was POSITIVE. While there is a chance that this is a false positive result, it is far more likely that I either have the virus or had it and didn’t know it. I can’t tell which because I have NO SYMPTOMS. That could be due to me being one of the … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1VniU-surprise","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}