SOLSC '25 Day Twenty-three: When a negative is a positive

 

I am participating in The Two Writing Teachers' Slice of Life Story Challenge, writing every day during the month of March.  My theme this year is "Outdoors".

I fully expected two lines show up.  After all, isn't it common to test positive for weeks after?  I'm still coughing a bit, though it's nowhere near the rib-splitting hacking like earlier in the week.  Still a bit tired, too.

But it's back to work tomorrow,  and I needed to know.  So I pulled out the box and went through the drill--swab, swirl, squeeze, cap, drop, and wait.  How many of us can do this in our sleep now, amateur lab techs by necessity?

Imagine my happy shock ten minutes later.  The sigh of relief.  The texts to family.  The feeling that maybe now, I  can return to some sense of normalcy and participate in events in the coming weeks.  I'll wear a mask in public for a few more days, just in case.  Out and about will feel nice, after this past homebound week.