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My Fiancé Has Been Sleeping On the Floor for Three Nights
He didn’t want to be anywhere near me
Last long weekend we got away to Vancouver Island with some friends. It was the first time in a long time that we had hung out with more than two friends at a time or had a mini vacation. Both were much needed. The next few days that followed after the weekend ended, I found myself struggling to re-adapt to normal life. I felt like I was having a typical post-vacay hangover, but a little worse than usual. I figured it was because we were both pretty burnt out to begin with.
We had come back Monday evening, and by Wednesday I was having really severe allergies. This isn’t out of the ordinary for me either since I usually experience seasonal allergies, and our cat has been shedding like crazy. But I was also really fatigued. I thought maybe it was a sinus infection since I also get one of these about once per year.
Then on Friday one of our friends reached out in the vacation group chat to inform us she had tested positive for COVID-19. I had a sinking feeling then that what I was experiencing wasn’t allergies or a sinus infection. I was supposed to be going out in under a couple of hours, so I snagged an at-home test from a friend, gently poked my brain a couple of times, and was hit with two pink stripes on the little test stick.
