Evidence of absence

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray! Out into the world again.

I'm so grateful that MyGuy had an easy time, that maintaining adequate isolation wasn't that onerous, and that I didn't get it (yet).

Now I can go back to the pool (full of highly vulnerable people, so I was super cautious).

Comments

[cmcmck]

Good!

[jesse_the_k]

We're damn happy about it.

[princessofgeeks]

\o/

[jesse_the_k]

\\\\o////^2

[davidgillon]

Result! Even if it's Not a Result.

On a medical ASL interpreting course

[jesse_the_k]

...we learned never to use the English words "negative" and "positive." The ASL signs for "negative" and "positive" only concern arithmetic. The appropriate signs were "test" or "investigation" plus "empty" or "shows up"

[esteefee]

nice job on you both!

Thanks

[jesse_the_k]

but good fortune was the best player in this drama, methinks

[susanreads]

Hurrah!

I thought the picture looked familiar - Flowflex are the brand I'm using. So much easier to use than the ones available 2 years ago.

There have been a parade of different manufacturers

[jesse_the_k]

These are easy to read, but stripping the tiny foil cap off the saline tubes is annoying.

I hope you've never seen a positive one in your house :,)

Re: There have been a parade of different manufacturers

[susanreads]

I have indeed never seen a positive one. (I take them before some face-to-face gatherings, including going to my 94-year-old neighbour's, and before and after cons.) I haven't had symptoms that seem likely to be Covid, but asymptomatic transmission is a thing, so.

With the original NHS ones I was supposed to snap or twist the end off a capsule. I usually used scissors. Out of 14 attempts I had 3 failures, because I couldn't get enough liquid out of the capsule and into the extraction tube. Peeling the foil cap off the extraction tube is an easier dexterity challenge for me, and I haven't had any failures.

Re: There have been a parade of different manufacturers

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, the ones where I had to cut though a plastic tube were over the top.

I may whine, but I do have a two pairs of lightweight needle nose pliers in my kitchen drawer, and they come in very handy for grabbing thing things. Woman is a tool-user! (And also crows, to my astonishment.)