This is an update to my other post I shared last week titled ‘I Tested Negative For Covid-19.’ If you haven’t read that one, you may want to do so, so all of this makes sense.

After I became very sick a few weeks ago, I applied to get tested for Covid-19 at a medical facility that had recently gotten a number of testing kits. While I was waiting to hear back from them, I learned of a drive-thru clinic I could go to immediately. So I went there and got tested for flu and coronavirus, which we know, both came back negative.

Two days after I got tested, I got a call from a doctor at the facility I had originally applied to get tested with. I told him I had already been tested. Since my husband works out of state, he recommended my husband get tested, even though my husband showed no symptoms of Covid-19. My husband and I thought, “why not?” it couldn’t hurt. And since the nurse practitioner who tested me at the drive-thru clinic had said they believe their tests had up to a 40% chance of false negative results, having my husband tested with another facility could only benefit all of us.

Since neither my husband, nor my kids showed any symptoms of coronavirus, and I, though very sick, never developed a cough and only slight tightness in my chest, we assumed that after my Covid-19 test came back negative, I just had a very bad case of some other virus floating around. And since I was getting better, we no longer had to keep a distance from each other, though we still kept up our social distancing from other people.

Once I started feeling better, we tried to get back to normal quarantined life. Including walks around the neighborhood, bike rides, and our usual outdoor spring projects of planting flowers in our front yard and refinishing furniture, not thinking much of my husband’s pending Covid-19 test results as he had no symptoms, and again, I came back negative.

Ten days after he was tested, he got a call that his test was positive for Covid-19. We were dumbfounded. What did this mean? Did I actually have the coronavirus? Was my test one of the up to 40% that resulted in a false negative? 

My husband has never had even one symptom of Covid-19—I had all the symptoms. Yet his test came back positive. Since his positive test, we’ve been trying to retrace our footsteps. Where did we go? Who did we come into contact with? How did we even get this? That is the question we may never know.

How many others are out there with coronavirus in their bodies and no symptoms? My husband was tested on a whim–not because he was sick, but because I was. If they had never tested him, no one would have ever known he was infected. That, that is scary.

After my husband’s positive result, I got tested again earlier this week. I’m still waiting on the results. But I feel better, I won’t be surprised if the results come back negative; at this point it’s been several weeks.

Deep inside, I know I had coronavirus. Whether the test was faulty or there maybe wasn’t enough virus left in the back of my nose after they did the flu swab, I will never know. If my current test comes back negative I will have to wait for an antibody test to know for sure if I had Covid-19 two weeks ago. But I won’t be surprised if I did.

Right now we are quarantining in our home, taking our temperatures frequently, and in constant contact with the health department. None of my kids, nor my husband are showing any symptoms and besides swollen lymph nodes under one of my arms–that may take weeks to go away, according to my doctor–I am feeling better.

If you take anything from reading this article, let it be awareness. Just because someone doesn’t act, look, or feel sick, doesn’t mean they aren’t infected. My husband exercises daily, feels healthier than ever, and is infected. And while we both felt we were very careful, the virus still made it into our home. This virus is sneaky and it does not discriminate.