Another round

 I just finished up another week of daycare.  It was nice to be done, but a half hour after my last kid left, my partner calls and tells me that her son has covid... So, I will be doing daycare next week and maybe the week after that as well.  The problem is that we had gotten over our numbers right about Christmas time, and we've been having to split the daycare up.  The person that's supposed to be working takes the early morning kids... 8 of them... and the person that was supposed to be off for the week takes the other 6-7 kids.  It means less time off, but we have 3 of them leaving in Feb and 4 of them starting school in the fall, so we should be within our limits soon without having to tell any parents to find other care for their kids. But for now, that means that I will keep the 8 that I had this week and the 6 that she had through the week need to find alternate care until we know that they aren't going to come down with covid too.  I was telling Jer that something that this pandemic has helped me with is being flexible and being able to change plans easily when needed. Just another example of plans and temporary plans.

As a side note, Jer was just called to be the Stake Technology Specialist... two days before Stake Conference.  He went and did it, and the person that trained him turned out to test positive for Covid on Tuesday.  Either it was too early to get Jer sick or Jer's mask helped, or Jer is asymptomatic.  He got tested this morning, but because of the sheer number of people with Covid right now, he won't get his results for a couple of days.  Here's to hoping.  One way or another, we'll be okay.  There were so many cases at the school that they chose to do online learning Friday through Tuesday of this next week and cut down on cases.  

Ada's best friend Hannah left today too.  I'm sad that Ada's lost yet another friend, but I'm so glad for the positive help that will come from the move.  Ada's been such a great friend and I'm proud of how she's handled such adult situations. Hannah's mom has been having delusions since Sept and Hannah has been trying so hard to get mental health help for her.  She's refused and we've come really close to being able to have her here in our home, but DCFS said that she was being provided for in her home and they couldn't help her.  We've helped her with calling the police and LOTS of days hanging out at our house.  FINALLY, they sold their home and now they are technically homeless. (They moved out today and checked into a hotel.) DCFS was able to come and take Hannah and the police took her mom into custody to go to the mental hospital down in Provo.  All because she was now "homeless".  Hannah texted me with such joy!  I'm so glad that her mom will finally get the help she needs and deserves (mother of 7 who lost her husband 4 years ago). I'm also glad that Hannah will finally feel safe and not have to sleep with her shoes on and her bag packed.  She's currently with her brother that's a student, but she can't stay long term. The hope is that her brother in Japan can take it to court and get legal guardianship over her while her mom is getting better.  Hannah's 15, so she might be over the age of 18 by the time her mom is stable again.  I'm sad to lose such a sweet neighbor, but I'm so happy for her.

Final weird tangent for tonight.  You can tell that our health system and labor force are strained right now.  One of my daycare mom's is the supervisor of the CNA's at a nursing home.  She has 15 staff out right now.  All of the stores and restaurants in our neighborhood have 'we're hiring' signs.  One of the ladies who used to be my Young Women came home for the 2 week break from college and immediately was hired even though she'd only be around for 2 weeks.  I got a sinus infection from that cold in December.  I knew it was a sinus infection because I get them often.  I tried treating it from home because I wanted to avoid the doctors.  I finally went into the insta-care (it was a weekend) and the doctor wouldn't believe me.  Even after I had two negative covid tests, he still wouldn't give me antibiotics.  I called my Primary care doctor's after hours line to see if they could do anything.... 3 calls in 6 hours and no answer from the doctor.  On Monday I called into the main office twice.  All I got was a text saying that my prescription was denied.  I was really confused because I wasn't asking for a prescription.... I was trying to ask what to do next.  I called one more time on Tuesday and didn't hear back from them until Wed night.  Yeah, you can tell that they are short staffed and super busy.  I think it's the same everywhere for the next few weeks through this Omicron spike.