The Queen of Corona

The inevitable happened. We got Covid. In this episode, we discuss how we handled having the virus, life during isolation, what we missed from the past 22 months of behaving responsibly, and what we’re looking forward to doing now that we have our super-immunity. We also discuss the dangers of late-night milkshake deliveries and, notwithstanding, how ice cream makes everything better.

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Dad: 0:00

Hey, Nora,

Norah: 0:02

Hi, dad,

Dad: 0:04

what are we talking about this week?

Norah: 0:05

we're going to talk about COVID

Dad: 0:20

Welcome back to the Nora and dad show. I am as always the dad and with me, I have the

Norah: 0:28

Nora.

Dad: 0:30

it's going on, Nora.

Norah: 0:32

So we, have COVID

Dad: 0:35

Yeah,

Norah: 0:35

or you don't have COVID anymore. You're free.

Dad: 0:40

guess I'm also patient X in the house and we'll get to that in a second, I guess. But after don't your,

Norah: 0:49

John Heiman is a super spreader.

Dad: 0:51

She's shaking her head at me. Um, after 22 months of dodging COVID-19 in the hymen house and being, uh, probably too, too careful. Do you think, were we too careful for the last 22 months?

Norah: 1:10

I have my opinions.

Dad: 1:12

Well, let's hear the opinions.

Norah: 1:14

I think that it was inevitable that we were going to get it anyways. So I think we, I think in terms of like gatherings and stuff, we did the right thing. I don't know, it's difficult to determine, like, I think not going to restaurants was good in not having big gathering through is good, but I also wish I could have done things that I didn't like. For example, my friend has having a birthday party today. Obviously I can't go to it now

Dad: 1:44

they don't

Norah: 1:45

yeah, no, Mile's not want me at his house right now. Um, but I knew that I wasn't going to be able to go to it anyways, even if I wasn't. So. Because, you know, not allowed to do death. So

Dad: 2:00

I guess if you're, I guess if you're going to get the COVID, if it's inevitable, we didn't want the alpha because. We didn't know anything about it. Back then, when this all started like two years ago and there weren't vaccines and antivirals and treatments and things like that, the Delta was, a lot more severe and I'm not sure I wanted that. So I guess in terms of like the three main strains of the COVID, I guess Omicron is the way to go, yay. Omicron. Well, we'll talk about that in a second too. So, three shots on my end, two shots on your end, you were supposed to get boosted and we had to cancel your booster appointment because you ended up, with symptoms and then ultimately testing positive. So we were really careful for the last 22 months, because we did not want to bring COVID-19 into the house. You went to school the whole time your brother did school was open. School felt relatively safe. All things considered given. I think the way the school handled COVID-19, which was very responsibly, but we

Norah: 3:04

but that was all we went, we went to school, I went to school of rock and Bude go. I think I went shopping twice. Like once for Christmas presents, once to get clothes for school. And school

Dad: 3:20

we did not. We did not. We did not go dining in restaurants

Norah: 3:23

went

Dad: 3:24

and less. We could eat unless we could eat outside, but we did not go inside of restaurants for, two years.

Norah: 3:31

drove everywhere. So We. didn't

Dad: 3:33

Yeah, we didn't go to, we, we didn't go to concerts. We didn't, there's a lot of stuff we've given up over the last 22 years. And then I'm sorry, last 22. It felt like it feels like 22 years last 22 months, the last two years. and then two weeks ago I traveled down to Cincinnati for a work conference. I was speaking at my firm was a sponsor and the. the craft beer practice group, I just started at, by, at the law firm. this was like the big launch event for it, I guess. And so I felt obligated to go, even though I wasn't feeling great about going, but it was a safe event. There were vaccines required or negative tests required masks were required. It felt like a safe event. And I brought COVID home with me anyway. So sorry.

Norah: 4:24

And you tested negative three times.

Dad: 4:27

Yeah. I came home from the conference. Wednesday. Went to work on Thursday, started feeling, I mean, cruddy is relative like the symptoms were, I mean, thank like thank God for vaccines. And the vaccine did its job because the symptoms were mild ahead. Not even, I wouldn't even call it a sore throat. I'd call it like. Like an irritation. But an irritated throat, I guess like a scratchy irritated throat. I had a little bit of a cough and I was tired and those were my symptoms. Uh, they started Thursday night. I tested negative Thursday night, tested negative Friday, tested negative Saturday, all on the rapid, the at home rapid tests. And I should say in the interim Friday, I went to science fair at Donovan's school. But tested before I went, it was mass. The whole time Saturday, I went to watch you participate in mock trial, go green team. It's going onto the sectionals. Yay. Lake Ridge academy, all three mock trial teams are moving on to the sectionals, which is including,

Norah: 5:34

so excited

Dad: 5:36

including your team, which is awesome. And I was really happy. I got to watch you. do your mock trial thing on Saturday, which was awesome. I tested negative before I left the house to go to watch you do that and wore a mask the whole time. And, and then Sunday, I don't know. I don't remember why I thought the test again on Sunday.

Norah: 5:54

because we all had some.

Dad: 5:55

Tested again and yay. Finally tested positive after. Three negative tests. You all went for your PCR tests on Monday, you tested positive, I guess similar symptoms as me

Norah: 6:10

yeah, I think I had a worst sore throat. I mean, I had worse symptoms though, just cause I'm not boosted. Yeah.

Dad: 6:17

and then Donovan who got his booster Sunday tested positive Monday. I'm sorry. Tested negative Monday. Yeah. He never tested positive. and your mom has. Not test the positive, although,

Norah: 6:28

We're treating

Dad: 6:29

the doctors, yeah, the doctors you spoke to when the board of health and everyone else says, we just presume given how contagious this thing is that the Hyman family is officially COVID positive. Yay us. So how's it feel to have COVID-19 how's it feel to be a statistic? How's it feel to not having been at school pretty much for the entire month of January, between the hospital, between the hospital for the first week, and then

Norah: 6:59

Oh, I've had to send so many emails to so many teachers, but everyone's very nice about it.

Dad: 7:04

and then getting back into school and now the COVID thing. And now you'll finally, I guess, be back at school full time Tuesday.

Norah: 7:12

Yep. Very excited.

Dad: 7:15

Does it feel good to get the COVID thing out of the way?

Norah: 7:18

now it did not feel good for the past four days or five days. Let's see. I felt okay Sunday, but then I started feeling really sick. Monday was bad. Tuesday was bad. Wednesday was really bad. Thursday was better.

Dad: 7:40

And when you say re and when you say really bad, let's put, let's put it in perspective because we know someone who just came home from nine and a half weeks in the hospital with COVID unvaccinated, but spent nine and a half weeks in the ICU with COVID-19. so when you say like not, you didn't feel great, let's put it in perspective that your symptoms by all, like by all accounts, your symptoms were.

Norah: 8:02

They were mild, but they were,

Dad: 8:03

in the mild category, you didn't, you didn't feel great. You had a really bad sore throat. You had a hard time kind of swallowing anything cause your throat hurts so badly. You weren't, I guess you had a couple of days where you were coughing pretty bad.

Norah: 8:17

I'm coughing really badly now because I'm just

Dad: 8:19

none of us really had a fever Donovan did, but I'm not convinced that it wasn't because he was boosted at the same time he got exposed to COVID. So I think he kind of got the double. COVID whammy between the vaccine, his vaccine booster dose, and then getting exposed to the virus.

Norah: 8:38

The temperature fluctuation was really bad too. I had that really badly. I'd wake up in the middle of the night full of sweat, but then be really cold as soon as I would put different clothes on and then have to keep changing. It's horrible to not

Dad: 8:52

yeah, I've had this, I've had a stripped down a couple of times in the middle of the night. Cause I got really like

Norah: 8:57

Yeah. I've had to do that

Dad: 8:58

in, in the middle of the night and haven't like, I've slept fine. on the couch between seven o'clock at night and 11 o'clock at night, and then I've had a hard time. In the middle of the night. And so, and that just could be because I just spent most of the evening sleeping on the couch and then wasn't tired by the time it was actually time to go to bed. I mean, who knows, but, I am thankful that the vaccine did what it was supposed to do and kept us from getting seriously ill or ending up in the hospital or on

Norah: 9:30

wondering what, wondering what would have happened if I wasn't vaccinated, because I don't think I would have been very good.

Dad: 9:39

Your whole life you've gotten weird. Like it'll, this is where you'll spike, like huge fevers for like a day. And then you'll be fine. Like you'll pop like 104 fever for like 12 hours. And then it'll, the fever will break. It'll be like that. Nothing like you were fine. And so your mom and I had both been nervous about you. Well, your brother is high-risk to begin with and we're nervous about him, but the nervous about you too, just because you tend to get these weird illnesses and we weren't quite sure what your immune system was going to do if you got COVID. So now we know, and it was fine. So what do you, so what are you looking forward to now that we can, now that we have this like super immunity and we can I don't want to say live our lives, but we can kind of live our lives without fear of getting COVID.

Norah: 10:25

at least until the new variant comes out.

Dad: 10:28

at least until what comes after. I don't know what comes after Omicron, but whatever the next thing is, but, but until then,

Norah: 10:34

too.

Dad: 10:35

and they're not around

Norah: 10:36

there. No, they're still around. Maybe not alpha, but Delta is.

Dad: 10:41

don't poop on my party now that we're, now that we have

Norah: 10:45

Being realistic.

Dad: 10:46

Now that we have this super COVID immunity. What do you, what are you looking forward to doing

Norah: 10:50

Um, I like to go out to dinner with my boyfriend or Valentine's day.

Dad: 10:57

that's in a couple of weeks?

Norah: 10:59

like, uh, not cheesecake factory restaurant.

Dad: 11:03

your boyfriend that we inadvertently

Norah: 11:05

Yeah. I gave COVID

Dad: 11:07

Yeah. Sorry. Um, yeah. Sorry, Ryan.

Norah: 11:10

We warned

Dad: 11:11

are you going to make? Where are you going to have Ryan take you for Valentine's day? Haven't take you somewhere. Fancy

Norah: 11:17

Well, Ryan does not have a job right now, so I don't want to ask you too

Dad: 11:20

treat, treat you. Yeah, he doesn't have a job because he tried to call off work when he was symptomatic and they wouldn't have. So everyone listening, this isn't an employment law podcast, but as your friendly neighborhood employment lawyer do not force your employees to come into work with COVID. That is a horrible thing to do. Allow them to take the time off they need to get, well, you don't want them spreading COVID in your workplace and you don't want them giving COVID to your customers is not good for

Norah: 11:49

specially in the food industry.

Dad: 11:52

especially in the food industry. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I'm not going to say, well, I don't really, I don't really

Norah: 11:58

No. Are you going to keep it and keep it? I'm not gonna say where

Dad: 12:02

let's just say let's, I'll, I'll put it like this. Not only is it time to make the donuts, but it's time not to give your customers. COVID.

Norah: 12:12

Yeah. Yeah. Let's not give people. COVID. not fun.

Dad: 12:16

You're too young, but Duncan. Oh, I said Dunkin donuts, Dunkin donuts used to have a commercial where this guy would say time to make the donuts. And he would leave his house at like four in the morning and go make the donuts. And that was like the big, like joke, not a great commercial, but he got famous for saying, well, it's time to make the donuts. Yeah. It's a little weird. So Dunkin donuts, don't make your employees come into work when they have COVID it's a little, it's a lousy thing.

Norah: 12:38

Not in good conscious. At least

Dad: 12:40

my, it's my, it's my, pep-talk that's my pep talk for the day. All right. So out, so out, so out to restaurants,

Norah: 12:47

want to, I want to go to a concert. I don't even know where I don't know who I'd see, but someone,

Dad: 12:57

We were saying over dinner that you can go play gigs now

Norah: 13:00

oh yes.

Dad: 13:00

like, be in like, be in places with your, with your guitar. you can debut the new song you wrote last

Norah: 13:08

I know I can

Dad: 13:10

That's the first song you wrote. It's the first song you wrote.

Norah: 13:13

I know,

Dad: 13:15

Just the, the motivation just struck you

Norah: 13:18

I dunno, I had a guitar part and then I was like, oh, this is cool.

Dad: 13:23

as if that the

Norah: 13:24

two chords, but

Dad: 13:26

the hand of God came down at handy, do this chord progression. You said thou shalt write a song and

Norah: 13:31

it's a very easy chord progression. it,

Dad: 13:33

so, so it wasn't the hand of

Norah: 13:35

No, it was it's C to like, see. Some inverted version of C,

Dad: 13:42

You might as well be speaking Russian

Norah: 13:43

but it's cabled on the third fret. So it's transposed

Dad: 13:50

led with that. That makes so much sense. Now. Not a word.

Norah: 13:54

if any of our listeners right here have COVID drink lemon water cured me. I feel like one of those like essential oil moms, but it helped a lot.

Dad: 14:04

Lemon water is, is, is lemon water, your version of ivermectin?

Norah: 14:08

I don't know what that is.

Dad: 14:09

That's the horse dewormer that Joe Rogan wants people to take to get rid of COVID

Norah: 14:13

I'm sure

Dad: 14:16

okay. it is definitely healthier. You, I mean, you discovered the door dash for the milkshakes.

Norah: 14:23

Well, we actually couldn't take my medicine with anything else. I love

Dad: 14:26

had dirt, so we had the door dash driver coming to the house, a bunch with the milkshake.

Norah: 14:31

Oh, Ryan ordered me milkshakes once I didn't tell you because it came out like 11. I got a milkshake.

Dad: 14:38

Are you opening the door to my house, to strangers at 11 o'clock at night.

Norah: 14:41

No, I,

Dad: 14:43

Don't don't

Norah: 14:44

whoa, let me explain. Let me explain. I had to wait until they leave. And then I opened the girl. I tell him to put him in front of the garage and then

Dad: 14:52

I love how you tell me this on the safety of the podcast. So you know that I, I can't get too mad

Norah: 14:56

I know.

Dad: 14:57

people are, cause people have listed. It's very smart.

Norah: 15:01

This is your tuition. Money goes to,

Dad: 15:03

yeah, please, please. Don't open the door to the house at 11 o'clock at night to strangers. I'm begging you. I, I don't, I you, a little mistook, true crime person here should know better than to have strangers come to the house at 11 o'clock at night

Norah: 15:18

They're doing their job. If okay. If someone, okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. If someone were to kill me on door dash or Uber eats, their name is there and their car is there and you could very easily be tracked down because the app tracks where you move. So it would not be a very good plan to do that.

Dad: 15:36

What if someone intercepted the door dash driver and. It wasn't actually the door dash driver, but someone follow the door dash driver to our home to use the opportunity of someone coming to the door to lay in, wait an ambush, the person

Norah: 15:51

they th they'd be surprised cause I would not go to the door. I would go to the garage.

Dad: 15:56

Aha. So what you're saying is you've thought this out and

Norah: 15:58

I have.

Dad: 15:59

Okay. Please. Don't have strangers come to my house at 11 o'clock at night anymore. That's all. That's all I'm asking. That is, that is all I'm asking. So.

Norah: 16:10

though.

Dad: 16:12

Whatever works. So I guess to wrap this up with a neat little bow, for us, COVID not awful. but not awful, but not awful for us might be awful to someone else. So please everyone get your shots, wear your mask in public. the person that you give COVID to, might not be as fortunate as we were to handle it fairly well, or you might have, you might not be as fortunate to handle it, well. So let's all try and please keep acting responsibly to. knock at sick ourselves or give COVID to other people that might, get really sick, and I guess nor congratulations on your, immunity. usually when I used to travel for work, when you were a little kid, I'd bring you back a t-shirt or a stuffed animal

Norah: 17:00

that anymore.

Dad: 17:01

when no, I brought you back COVID.

Norah: 17:03

Well, it's not a great souvenir.

Dad: 17:05

Well,

Norah: 17:05

a pin or something and we got a bottle opener.

Dad: 17:08

you got up. Yes, you've got up. Wickens hers, her Panza bottle

Norah: 17:13

To open up root beer and, Mexican Coca-Cola.

Dad: 17:16

and COVID-19, my dad went to a conference for work and all I got was COVID-19. Congratulations.

Norah: 17:23

also got like 10 hours of Sims on my steam account. Played lots

Dad: 17:29

It's not, it's not all bad. You got to sleep a lot. You got to eat milkshakes and

Norah: 17:36

I know I've

Dad: 17:37

lots of root beers

Norah: 17:38

Actually. I had, you know, it felt like being in the hospital again, got ice cream, at least once a day,

Dad: 17:47

ice cream makes everything better. And anyone who tells you otherwise is a big fat liar.

Norah: 17:55

or a vegan

Dad: 17:56

Those are my,

Norah: 17:57

or lactose intolerant.

Dad: 17:58

make. They make vegan ice cream. They make lectures, free ice cream, and

Norah: 18:03

We just said ice

Dad: 18:04

anyone who, anyone who tells you ice cream, doesn't make things better as a big fat liar. And you can print that. Put that on a t-shirt put that on a t-shirt that's my story. There it is. Drop the mic. All right, kiddo. glad you're feeling better. I'm glad. I, I really, I would've felt genuinely horrible. Had I brought COVID home and you would get. Like six, six. So I'm glad you didn't get sick, sick, sick, just mildly sick. So, I am, happy that you're doing okay. Feeling better. and that, I didn't do too much damage pre COVID into the house. So with that, norm Marie, where can people find you. On the old interwebs, if they want to connect with you,

Norah: 18:52

you can find me at Nora Marie music anywhere you, can think of, except you'll probably only find stuff on Instagram and Facebook because I'm not active anywhere else. So.

Dad: 19:05

there it is. You can find me at John Hyman. you can find us, at a normal. And dad showed.buzzsprout.com that has the links for all of our socials. And you can find us on the Facebook, the Twitter, and the Instagram, at Nora and dad show. you'll also find us on apple podcasts, and on Spotify where we would certainly appreciate, the five-star reviews and the subscriptions. we're always happy to read nice things. People have to say about us. write some nice things. We appreciate it. Who doesn't like it, who doesn't like a compliment, spread the word. We appreciate it. All right. We will be back next week. We'll see everyone. Then Nora, have a great week. Enjoy your, your week back at school, however long it is. We're not sure with the you're off Monday and then there's snow in the forecast. So it might be yet another short week at

Norah: 19:59

I have not gone through a full week of school since December

Dad: 20:03

But enjoy what you can and if you're home you're home. So it is what it is.

Norah: 20:07

time to get work done.

Dad: 20:09

There you go. All right, kiddo. I love you.

Norah: 20:11

Love you too.