How has the Pandemic affected you as a cancer patient/survivor

Well, thanks gals. I scheduled a test for this afternoon. I don't think it's the rapid one as it says results 1-2 days. I'd rather know if it's in my head that I don't feel that great, or not. It could just be stress. This positive person was at the fishbowl table for hours with others all afternoon. Even though I wasn't around her, the others that were around her were around me. So, I'll text my friend and see if her husband can come outside and I can least drop off the food I made. I don't think it is contagious. I will also have to call my sister (mbc patient) and cancel with her for tomorrow. Her Godmother (our mother's best friend) passed and we were going to attend her funeral Mass. I may also work remotely tomorrow for my own sanity. I do feel like there is more than 1 sicko in here. I am vaccinated. Here's my employers covid response:

If you have been exposed but are vaccinated and not symptomatic, no further action is necessary. Please monitor for any symptoms that may develop.

If you have been exposed and are NOT vaccinated – whether you are symptomatic or not – you should get tested. If test is negative, resume normal activity. If test is positive, follow isolation protocol.

Ctmbsikia,

Testing too soon after a possible exposure can lead to false negative results. My county health department recommends waiting 3 to 5 days after exposure before getting tested and allowing the virus load to build for detection.

Hershey I thought of that and proceeded anyway since this person was in the office everyday this week. Next time I'll wait, and wait until I'm sure I'm symptomatic. That's what's so hard with this virus, you could be walking around with it and not know.

The State Senator in Florida who refused to meet with the Florida Surgeon General because he would not wear a mask was on Anderson Cooper tonight. She has been diagnosed with stage 1 BC, and she just started radiation. The Surgeon General said that he did not feel comfortable talking while he was wearing a mask. He offered to meet with her outside without a mask, under the assumption it was safer, or he offered to talk to her while standing in the hall way right outside her office, and she refused both of those options. This story popped up on Fox News, and nothing was mentioned about the fact that she was dealing with breast cancer, and she was portrayed as being unreasonable, and she has received a few death threats since then.

Working from home today. I hate being overly paranoid but thanks to being old and already having bc, and other issues, it is what it is. My nose is running more than usual. It's probably just the seasonal cold. Mild, feeling fine otherwise. I have much less anxiety not being around anyone. I was never like this. Being a widow now I am getting used to being alone and it's not as scary as I feared.

Have a happy and safe Halloween. Was invited to a happy hour later which I will also cancel. No big plans for the weekend, so no more cancellations to do!! Just going to chill and hang with myself! LOL

Covid: Double vaccinated can still spread virus at home https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59077036

Illimae,

I will only visit outdoors with a vaccinated and masked friend. Many layers of caution here in our house, because my husband has Multiple Myeloma. He’s received his third full dose of Moderna, and will hopefully get a fourth dose at some point.

So we just don’t consider anyone safe if they’re not in our bubble. I stopped going to one doctor who doesn’t require his office to be masked. There’s just no way.

Oh, Wrenn, that has to have your nerves gnawing through your head! How scary!

Wrenn, I know. Every cough in our house now gets "Are you okay?" instead of "Gross!"

wrenn - Glad your family is ok.

In our house the coughs are still from having a drinking problem. 😉

Glad younger kids will get vaccinated soon.

Now that it's chilly out, my nose drips when I get back indoors (as it has done for years). And I've been slacking off my Nasalcrom & Nascort (thought hay fever season was over) with my increasingly needy senior kitties assertively snuggling me. I just found out that here we still have ragweed pollen (at lesst till two hard frosts in a row)!!! Our next-door neighbor's yard is a ragweed patch (he's been in CO since Sept.). I am triple-vaxed (since late Aug., with my third dose of Moderna being full rather than half "booster" strength) and I mask when I go into indoor public spaces, so I'm sure it's not COVID.

I looked at that photo thinking your grandson was actually standing there with his buddy Dr. Fauci!

Here is another way the pandemic has affected me as a cancer patient: It adds one more uncomfortable test, (I hate them! They sting.) and one more long drive to the cancer center with DH missing work, to our already considerable burden when something is going on. I had to do it this week before my colonoscopy to diagnose the ILC colon met. It was my fourth such covid test.

Dear All, I have a question. Did anyone have a booster of a different manufacturer in comparison with original 2 dozes?

I would like to have moderna booster, I had pfizer in march of 2021.

Can someone tell me the benefit of different brand for booster? I had 2 pfizer and will be getting my 3rd soon. Iwill ask for moderna if i understand it. Thanks for any help.