 Hey you guys, so it is Oh my god, I can't believe this July 17th, and I am on I'm not sure what day it is Day five of having Documented COVID symptoms. I should say at this point. They should know it's day four I'm sorry day four of having so we're I'm on day four of having documented COVID symptoms, I should say I do apologize for the angle of the camera My husband is relatively symptom-free now his allergies started to flare up yesterday We're all noticing a increase of mucus buildup I'm all itchy which is again inflammatory response my little boy is itchy. He's coughing I coughed a lot. I Coughed a lot last night I Do have cough medicine. I'm taking as needed I Took a pill this morning and Yeah, so overall I feel okay. I would say the number one symptom. I'm feeling is Fatigue and I just don't feel right Hey, you guys, I know you all can't really see me I'm still in bed. Everyone's still asleep. Let me try to get up some to apologize Girl, let me give my pamphlet. Oh Geez I am on day one two day seven Day seven of having the coronavirus and I should say This is the fifth day after my positive result fifth day. Yeah, fifth day after my positive result I had no coughing last night. Thank the Lord the first time I slept all the way through with no coughing and I only had coughing at night for three or four nights, so, you know Nasally still Alleges are still in flair So I'm gonna do a nasal rinse when I get up. All right, you guys so it is the 18th of July and I feel okay today now JP woke up and He was like mommy. I can't clear my throat. I can't clear my throat So I'm assuming it's mucus buildup My husband had horrible we both had horrible allergy flare-ups yesterday My nasal started to burn Really really bad. So I already had saline rents in here. It's why I did a saline rents and What else extreme fatigue yesterday? I started for the first time I started experiencing shortness of breath and Chest pain, I don't know why I thought I was playing with JB Muka still I Was playing around with JB just dancing a little bit of hopping around caused me to get winded and not a breath So today I've mostly relaxed my husband is out My husband is done he's like He can't really you know do much anything and so it's his allergies you guys out what I'm finding with this virus is that Your whatever underlying issues you have depending on how bad it is it just flares it up It's in it's an inflammatory. It's basically what it does Inflammatory virus that attacks your body and everyone's different I know my lips are kind of peeling I need to drink some more Everyone's body is going to be different and every day hell it almost seems like every other hour You can experience a different symptom very frustrating And so but today has been my best day and Unfortunately today my husband has felt the worst today has been his worst day Just doesn't feel good and that's how I've been feeling off and on you could tell I'm feeling better because I'm rambling now So I'm going to get some rest here. I made some chicken soup not some potato corn soup We ordered in last night. Yes. Yesterday was the best day we had in a long time because When I tell you that this is great. This is draining on you as an individual Am I a JB she's running around like nothing like nothing's going on, you know, he's just child So he thinks everything's fine and so But it's just so It's turning it's because you think you're gonna get better and there's something to happen And I am forever grateful that our symptoms have been mild, but it's just this lingering, you know, it's still lingering there and you're tired So one of the things I did they help Boost up my my you know self-esteem as I started posting and I'll show you guys I Printed out positive affirmations. I'm a believer in positive affirmation affirmations. Excuse me I've used them for years for the past five years Visualization the refrigerator door I put one on our bathroom door and then I even printed out a Visualization I'll show you guys what it looks like real quick and I have to go check on my soup So I did this really quick Two days ago when I was just just at my lowest and so this says I am the Lord who hears you Exodus 1526 You have a purpose. I think everyone has a purpose and I I Morning you guys Well last night, you know waking up and still have mucus and stuff In my throat. This is normal. This is I spent a full bottle four or five days now Slut pretty good Still sleeping in separate bedrooms until my husband can feel pretty good Ah Yesterday was probably one of the worst days and again, I thought we were As a family like right now, I'm okay. I feel for me personally I feel the best I've ever be felt but when my family hurts I heard so My husband's symptoms were the absolute worst He did go to the urgent care and they refused to give him any allergy medicine They're basically that particular doctors stated that this is just the cove it and Understand you have allergies, but we want to avoid giving you steroids because that what we can your immune system Well as me I've been on my I've been a raw inhaler I've been on my nebulizer and The doctor another doctor actually prescribed me steroids So I'm like what? I'm Not really gonna go down that path because it has been absolute hell trying to find someone who will even see my husband Heads up there is gonna be if you are any one of your family Gives us you have to see the doctor for another symptom. There's gonna be some discrimination All he needs is an allergy shot and no one will touch him No one would touch him. No one will see him. A lot of places are not even seeing COVID patients A lot of people are saying oh go to your primary care His primary care doesn't even have any spots open until August. Are you serious? The earliest he could get in to see his doctor's August 4th and when With all this going on his fever just spikes go up spikes and night it gets so 101 99 now I'm telling him Well, I'm not telling him anything. I'm advising him You know, I don't think you should take any fever reduce the medication because the fever is actually good It's you want to have a fever. You just don't want it to go get too high because the fever helps to kill the virus, right? So at this point I'm so frustrated at this point tomorrow will make 14 days that he would have had COVID And like I said, I'll give a whole round round about what happened at that one. This is all over So His job keeps calling him wondering, you know, how his symptoms are doing because they have shortages in the laboratory and the hospital the PPE The N95s PPE and face shields are reserved for those who have direct contacts with COVID patients My husband and them are using flimsy surgical mask. So I'm pretty sure he bought this home to us That's the crappy part more than likely he did now. It will depend on JB's and I Our Results because we got tested early on and we still haven't gotten those results yet We're looking at now going on Nine or ten days that we took that test now I went to the ER and like I said, it's a gut mind to get my rapid test and that's how I know I'm positive now JB woke up the night before a little hot. I didn't take his temperature because I'm like you can go back to bed Yesterday he started to experience a fever. It was running a hundred. I let it run for a while I know he wasn't feeling good. He was still playing a little bit I let it run for a couple of hours and then right before bed. I gave him flu Tylenol because I don't want my baby He needs to sleep, but I let it run all day. I didn't give him anything And he was in good spirits. He would get up. He would play he drunk Gatorade And so last night where before you know, I gave it to him before bed gave him a bath Extensual oils and they dropped down to 98 98 put one when I put him in the bed And it is six o'clock and he hasn't woken up. So Yeah, he started to show a fever My I still don't have a fever So y'all this is one of my tips with this particular mini vlog is Make sure that you have plenty of medication Another thing I've been doing every day, especially in the morning is breathing exercises So if you have asthma if you have any lung issues, it's because right now I can feel this right here It's tight. It's tight right here right now not too bad But it feels like I've done a lot of upper body exercises, okay So what I've been doing is taking a deep breath in Holding it for five seconds and releasing it. I do that six times. Okay. I do it several times all throughout the day I take a deep breath That opens up your lungs and stuff like that And I'm up walking around. I don't sit down for a long time But so I have a dry cough. It's wet right now, but as the day goes on I have a dry cough So I'm up walking around doing stuff Basically, I'm being active when I feel like it and if I'm not I rest so that's it for today you guys I don't want to sound to you guys so it is oh God a week after I tested it positive 12 days after my husband tested positive Two days ago JP had a fever. Did I tell you all this? I don't remember my days are bleeding into and now two days later He's fine, but now this is the alarming part. They should not be reopening any schools in person Jb show no symptoms up until a week That's excuse me. Um, like I said, he wasn't he hasn't been showing any symptoms and two days before he had the fever He was sneezing His same asthmatic cough if I didn't know any better I would assumed that it was his allergies Besides the fever it mimics to him allergy same thing for me allergy same thing for my husband now now Heightened allergy issues again. It's inflammatory. I'm very blessed. I Am so very blessed grateful to God because there are so many people who not but I still I'm gonna say this and again I'll save it for the the end of the commentary. I believe a lot of people will survive this I I believe that The the information on the media has heightened the fear Um, I also think that when they are Disclosing the information of how many people have died. They should let us know how many people have tested positive First of all, how many two people have tested over all then how many people have tested positive How many people have tested negative? How many people have survived it? And then how many people have passed away when you see all those numbers collectively as a whole. I think that will Ease up the fear that's going on but absolutely understand because catch this This is the reason why I think the school should definitely not open in person If I didn't know any better. I was walking around fine because I'm still waiting on my results We are now 10 days that we visited on a healthcare Okay, baby, put it right there. It's been 10 days since JB and I got tested. I still don't know his status. Clearly he has it I know mine because I went to the ER Okay So let's ask JB. How have you been feeling? So how did you feel the other day? How did you feel the other day pumpkin when you had the fever? How did you feel? I felt tired. I felt tired because I woke up last night and I You know like I like my head was hurting too Sorry And I was I was playing with Tech play of the light. I was putting something I was playing with Legos to try to keep my mind off of it and And so I I took my Lego build put it on the edge of my bed and then tried to go to sleep And we prayed as soon as he had a fever we prayed and um, yeah y'all it's just one day at a time and so I will continue to do Daily updates of this thing until I feel like we don't have it. It'll get your foot out It'll be another week for me. Um, hey you guys. So I am back. This is the final Commentary release. Oh my gosh, um of our experience with COVID the coronavirus so Excuse me That was that wasn't a cough cough that was clearing my throat cough. Um Let me I have notes here you guys. Um, yeah I want this part of the video to be hopefully less than 10 minutes because you would have now seen almost 20 minutes of footage Okay, you have to excuse your makeup. I just put something on real quick Didn't really do a full face. It is what it is. Okay, so um First off I want to give all honor and glory to god y'all honestly truly Um, I also want to thank you guys for all your well thoughts prayers and wishes throughout this entire ordeal um, so let's just back up and we're just going to go through what happened um And then towards the end of and I'm going to share with you guys some tips that will hopefully help Some of you who I hope and know when we get affected by this But let's just be honest Some of you will or you may have family members or friends who will become um infected with this virus so July early july it's been a couple of weeks. So early july was the week of july So it was the week of july 6. Yeah, we're going into the Fourth week now. Yeah the week of july 6 and you guys i'm a very busy mom wife Um, and sometimes I will admit I can't get so busy that I forget to check in on my husband to see how he's doing So I noticed it had been a couple of days since I really really had a sit down talk with him And so I thought something was wrong. I'm like, what the hell did I do did it? Is he mad at me because he's been very very quiet the past two or three days, right? So by the third day, I said, you know, let me go ahead and get up And stay up when he gets home from work my husband works second shift in the hospital Okay, we're gonna get to that in a minute. So, um, I stayed up the third night when he got home I'm like, hey, what's up, you know, how you've been doing? I know it's busy at work. Are you okay? Okay, everything's okay He's like, yeah, I just haven't been feeling well lately He said that his neck has been giving him problems. He doesn't know if he's been Doing too much, you know, heavy lifting and so he said, you know, the pain is kind of almost radiating towards his chest He pointed, you know This area you could guys couldn't see it right here And so he said he didn't know if it was his allergies or what because he couldn't Get in to see the allergist to get an allergy shot. They were postponing all of the um appointments until august I was like, oh, okay. Well, I had it in my head. You know, my mental roller kicks. Okay the next night I'm gonna go ahead and give him a little massage. I'm gonna cook a nice dinner and all this So that was my hopes and plans, right? So thursday comes around Is that thursday of the week of the sixth thursday comes around he gets up and I can tell he's really not feeling well He skipped working out. My husband works out almost every day. He runs. He does weights He stays in good health. He has no underlying issues. Okay out of the three of us. He's the healthiest So i'm like, oh, okay By the afternoon. He's like, I don't feel well He starts coughing. I'm like, oh Okay So then he says, um, I notice he goes to put on his clothes And he's like and he puts on his mask When he comes back to what triggered me when he came back into the living room, he had a mask on I was like, oh my god So he's like, I'm gonna go ahead and go to the hospital. I'm gonna get tested. I'm not gonna play around with this I said get tested for he said we're gonna go get tested for the corona virus I'm like, oh my god. So I said, you know, please let me know what's going on While my husband when he left something told me Vivian go ahead and start cleaning getting ready I started disinfecting everything that he had touched Then I was making, you know, remembering. Oh my god. JB was all over him all day He's been coughing off and on and Our son doesn't see him that much. So when he's off they're all over each other You know, he's been playing with him. Like, oh my god. JB has been all over him So, okay, Vivian don't worry about that. So I clean clean clean Within an hour my husband texted me and said I tested positive my heart dropped y'all because I'm like, oh my god We've been all around him JB and I are both high risk. I'll get to that in a minute Jebessa is my son those you don't know we call him JB So I got really nervous, but the mommy and me the wife and me Turned on I didn't have time to react. So I start cleaning cleaning cleaning cleaning cleaning with bleach He then tells me go ahead and Move yourself into the back of the house. That's when I broke down crying That's when I was like I can't I worked on crying JB's looking at me my poor child is so he's an empath like me. He's rubbing my back And I that's when I'm like, okay, Vivian get it together. So I cleaned Like crazy y'all like it's not even anybody the house my like bleach Because I was an insurance trying to wipe everything down and preparing for him to get home I took as much stuff as I could out of our bedroom Because the goal was to put him in the in the master bedroom with the uh with the master bath And then JB and I would be at the front of the house and I put a little trash can out front A huge tray to be serving all his meals. Boom I did all that work within 20 minutes like no joking to move JB and I back here into our room um So we did that for about three or four days Um, he was coughing off and on the doctor prescribed him. What did he prescribe him? He prescribed him Tylenol like extra stent strength Tylenol. This is the the doctor the ER physician, excuse me um extra stent strength Tylenol. He also got um a breathing machine to keep tracks of his breathing um I went ahead and pulled down my oxymeter. I had certain supplies here Um, I pulled out the oxymeter. I made sure that we had liquid Uh Tylenol in case he wanted to take that instead of the pills And for the first two or three days, he was feeling a little uh, you know, a little bad by the third day His symptoms all but cleared up by the fourth day His butt was trying to come outside the room. I'm like, no, we need to go back inside. Um within uh Once he got positive. He said you guys need to get tested right away. So women's that By sunday we were able to find a place that could take both JB and I because this is the thing A lot of these places these pop-up places they will not test anyone under the age of 18 So that was a bit, you know, nerve-wracking. So JB and I both got tested Two days two or three days after my husband tested positive. Okay So by the four for fifth day, my husband symptoms were clearing up by the sixth day I started showing symptoms. I'm coughing My sinuses, which would be the first day for me of symptoms. Let me just say that now. We're gonna go to me One of my sinuses started to burn Um And then later on that evening I started to feel half feet. I started to have chills. I checked my temperature 98.7 so 99. Okay I told my husband. I said I'm cold. I'm having chills and I won't have my results from the urgent care from the fund of the five days He says go to the ER go to the ER immediately Um, so I waited to get JB then I felt horrible because I've been holding JB and he was sleeping next to me And I'm like, I've been breathing on my baby all this time. He probably has it So put JB to bed ran to the ER Went to the ER. The ER was empty y'all got God nothing but God the ER was empty now. This is a new um The ER next to us new within the past two years. Okay, three years three years got there They did a rapid test which is totally different from what they did at the urgent care the rapid test They can give you your results within 15 minutes or so or whatever. So Um, the only I think one of the reasons why they also agreed to see me is because I told them my husband Test the positive and so like, okay. Yeah, we need to go ahead and test you. What are your symptoms? Yada yada ER doctor came in and said well your husband gave you COVID. I'm like, well, damn No, no, so I didn't really freak out or anything because I figured I already knew I Since I was having symptoms like more than likely. I didn't really freak out about that. Um, I had a mix of emotions. Honestly, I would first I was scared of course because I have asthma I also have hypertension and I have a compromised immune system I'm not going to really go into that. So it was funny a couple of days prior to that I contacted my doctor just freaking out because I wanted to know what my latest labs were and he's like, you know what? Yeah, your labs. Okay, certain things are low. He said, but there's no reason. Let me back up I told my doctor my husband has tested positive for COVID He's like, you know, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to fight this Um, and and my husband even stressed. He's like, yeah, you you should be able to you shouldn't have any problems What we would need to be worried about is your asthma triggering Triggering your asthma. I'm like, okay. Okay, cool So this doctor the ER doctor based on my history. He prescribed me steroids Tylenol Motrin cough medicine And something else that I can't think of the only thing I used out of that said Oh, I needed to use what's the cough pills everything else. I just have sitting up in the cabinet. Okay So you guys let me go over some of our symptoms. Okay I'm going to go over my some of my husband's symptom first and then go over some of my my symptoms. So Um, this is an order of the days And I tracked I tracked for the first 12 days Next soreness headache allergy like symptoms headache felt fevers feverish Then he went into a light cough night low-grade fever. My husband had low-grade fevers at night Um, and my thing was I'm like, if it doesn't get over like 101, don't take any medicine You just feel a little bad. Just go to sleep. So that's what we did He didn't really take anything because the fever is serving a purpose. Okay um By day six no symptoms Okay, day seven Day eight Silas pressure As I stated earlier, my husband wasn't able to get his allergy shot. So this virus really flared up his allergies You guys I mean he felt worse on day nine and ten Then he felt on day four and five because his allergies were not controlled at this point Within three days of him receiving allergy shot. His symptoms were mild. It's not my symptoms. I told you earlier I had a low-grade fever. Um, I had I did have a headache. It wasn't a really bad headache I just had a slight headache. I thought I was dehydrated. I took some water Then the night I went to the ER. I had the fatigue coughing Um, sinus burning I did had a really rough coughing a coughing fit where I cough and my entire Throat felt on fire. My throat has I've never felt like that I never felt that bad. I said if that if I have to go through that for a couple of days I would be miserable. But thankfully it was just that one coughing. Okay So Extreme fatigue. We were both very very tired and the thing with this virus We will have a couple of days where we felt good not feeling good. We thought we were on the man's We will have one day where we felt okay into the next day all all go to hell We felt really really bad just you know, just it just lingers there The virus seriously lingers there a week into it like they ate for me I started having shortness of breath. It was really hard for me to catch my breath We have a nebulizer here. I immediately went out immediately at night. I took one dosage of my I bit of raw. I still have these um And so I was on my nebulizer for three days The shortness of breath the shortness of breath excuse me ink stuff about three days ago Um, along with the shortness of breath. I had chest tightness and my anxiety Hightened like nobody's business. All right, so seven days and two both Seven days after I tested positive JB Gets a fever of a hundred He's the only one out of all of us who had a daytime fever of a hundred at one point. It got 101. I'm like, oh my gosh Seriously, so before that two days prior to that. I remember I remember him coughing a lot more When he experienced that fever for the day, I let it run. He seemed to be in good spirits. He was up, you know, You know playing or whatever at night. I gave him Tylenol. He slept like a baby He slept all night about three to four days after that when he woke up He's like he kept trying to clear his throat. So he had mucus built build up. I did too I felt like there was just mucus all up in here. So Those are our symptoms now. Let me tell you some things that we did to help treat this because there's no cure Right. There's nothing for it in addition to the cough medicine and of course my allergy medicine We ensured that we were up to date on any prescriptions that we had with of course my husband wasn't able to get his um I made sure two weeks ago that I had enough allergy medication for JB and I and of course we had our medication The liquid medication for the nebulizer um I also Started taking vitamin c a month ago. So, um, my husband I take a number of vitamins every day you guys even prior to this So I'll there's a lot. I will say this it is quite a bit. So I'm on vitamin c vitamin d magnesium um, I take this liquid form of vitamin b Beast is like b12 b6 is a number of thing and folic and all this other stuff. Um I also take is that it Um, that's what I take now. Once I got got tested positive. I added iron to that I added elderberry juice and zinc. I didn't add iron. I'm sorry. I added zinc elderberry juice to that And I upped the vitamin c by one more capsule husband always took vitamin d B12 we added elderberry juice vitamin c after he got um after he tested positive JB takes an elderberry gummy every day. I didn't add anything else to his okay um other things that we did we insured to Let me back up my first protocol my first thing that I did within Like an hour Actually within 15 minutes 15 to 20 minutes when I was cleaning I immediately reached out to my friends and family and asked for prayer I reached out to you guys asked for prayer. Um, I reached out to people I know who wasn't on social media asked for prayer. I'm like, please keep my family and your prayers and thank you again. Um I also I read so much into the book of psalms y'all. I'm gonna try hard not to cry. Um My favorite scripture was psalms 46. I read that honestly for like the first four days That's all I did was I listened to healing scripture. I printed out healing scriptures I started inserting our names into the scriptures Everything I mean, I needed to eat live and breathe the word you guys Seriously, um because I didn't want my mind going there. Do you know what I mean as soon as they they said I was positive Oh, I started thinking all types of thing. Oh, this this could happen. This can you you will get attacked Okay, we know where it comes from. I'm trying to to look at the news and all of that. So anyway In addition to the vitamins and praying and meditating, um, We ensured that we ate fairly clean besides the one or two days where we had I think like we had pizza one day one night And then girl chip filet. Look look god We're some mysterious ways because chic filet all of a sudden started to deliver in this area So we had chick chick filet delivered one day, but overall we ate fairly clean. I made soups. I made um, we ate, uh Whole grains we ate vegetables. I had two oranges a day to get that, you know vitamin c in um And it was so funny the day before I had got a bunch of ginger did it before I got positive I got a bunch a bunch of ginger and an indian woman was checking me out. She said, oh, you got a lot of ginger Um, you know one thing that we this is the indian cashier talking to me She said one of the things that we do in my culture But we've been doing to fight this thing I mean and look the coronavirus is we make a ginger tea I said, oh, that's exactly what i'm going to be doing because that's something I I've always used to do anyway when I fill them down ginger tea So she told me how they they do it a bunch of ginger tea y'all. I mean a bunch of ginger. I mean like a bunch of ginger with um, like four or five lemons You boil that in water You let it seep for a while for like an hour and also bush tea I ordered um the bush tea through amazon bush tea is very popular in south africa. So teas teas teas We of course cut out alcohol alcohol is is inflammatory Um, and also I cut out a coffee. I had my first cup of coffee like three days ago. I could I immediately cut out coffee No sweets and we had sweets. It was very minimum. Okay Um, no dairy besides that cheese pizza like literally really really took the time to clean up our diet. I've lost six pounds Ironically my husband has lost two pounds. Um, but yeah, I lost a couple of pounds So right now it has been About four days since I've had, you know, really bad symptoms. Like I said, I cough every now and then My nasals right now are definitely Um, congested. Um, my husband is fully he started feeling better. He said, um two days after he had His his his allergy shot. He started to feel better. JB was only sick Maybe three or four days and you know, he has allergies, you know Right now where he still feels a little mucous build up, but nothing too bad So at this point we still have to stay inside and self isolate to august It's it you guys I say, please, please, please wear your mask out there when you go out Now what I know people have heard probably thinking, where did we get it from? My husband got it from his job. Hey Not going to really go down that rabbit hole, but there was somebody in his Office gives him somebody in the lab that was out of compliance with their mask That's all I'm going to say when I heard that I was heated Infection control has been calling my husband try to Know get a little bit more feedback from him a little bit more information. They know who it is We you know, my husband knows who it is too and I'm just like, how the hell are you going to work in a Hospital and not be compliant with a damn mask That's ridiculous. Now you got everybody sick and apparently there are several people in the laboratory who are sick These people don't have any direct contact with patients. So they shouldn't be getting covid unless one of them And the actual lab has it and you're not properly So y'all lessons learned takeaways from me Um, this has definitely increased my faith and god Because I'm a type of believer. I know this is wrong. I oftentimes feel like I don't deserve anything. I'm not worthy Of anything. I don't deserve this. You know what I mean? Um, and I can't be that way This is definitely got have brought me closer to god and um, I think it's really important to have that close relationship With our savior It's also bought us closer as a family because this is something that we have all experienced Okay, and it's also taught me that because for a minute there For like the first two or three days where we were all sick with me meeting my husband It felt very lonely It felt extremely Like that There was no one reaching out people started reaching out to me like by the seventh or eighth day But when we were sick like for the first two or three days It felt extremely lonely because you can't do anything. You can't really you know how to mean so I felt very I've already was feeling disconnected even as an entry work from the outside But having to be in the house and knowing that you're sick with this I felt very disconnected and I felt extremely lonely and still until I started um stop feeling bad for myself You know what I mean? So That is it you guys like I say, you know, thank you all so much again for your thoughts and prayers And I'll see you guys on the next video. Take care. Bye