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This coming January my dad will be 90 and eight days later I will be 60. Ten years ago at 80/50, we and our spouses went to Hawaii. Of course nothing like that will happen at this milestone but I just can’t not go visit him. Of course my concern is how to do it safely.
I’m thinking of finding a place near him that I can get a same day test. I’d travel in and get a hotel room and then get tested. This is all uninformed at this point, but I’d like to get the test in the morning of his BD and then immediately go visit him for a few hours. Any opinions on how effective that would be? Any ideas on anything else I should do or, could do, to be as safe as possible? Thankfully dad is pretty healthy for a 90yo. He does have very slight diabetes that is well controlled with one pill per day. Other than that, his weight is good and he gets out and walks 1 to 2 miles every day. Still, I sure don’t want to be the vector of him getting COVID and being very sick or worse.
I’m thinking of finding a place near him that I can get a same day test. I’d travel in and get a hotel room and then get tested. This is all uninformed at this point, but I’d like to get the test in the morning of his BD and then immediately go visit him for a few hours. Any opinions on how effective that would be? Any ideas on anything else I should do or, could do, to be as safe as possible? Thankfully dad is pretty healthy for a 90yo. He does have very slight diabetes that is well controlled with one pill per day. Other than that, his weight is good and he gets out and walks 1 to 2 miles every day. Still, I sure don’t want to be the vector of him getting COVID and being very sick or worse.