I HAVE COVID

Wednesday Sept 8th, I had a covid test done at the location across from The 90 just for safety reasons since a few days ago I had felt a little off. I thought it was just the stress of being in college and my course load I had going on.

Today, I went home so that I could see my mom and my friends after I had been gone for three weeks because of college. But at 5:44 p.m. I received a phone call from a Lexington number. I was on my way to Cracker Barrel for dinner with my mom. 

"Hi is this KayDee?"

"Yes it is"

"Can you confirm your last name and date of birth please?"

"Pratt. Zero six eighteen two thousand and two."

"Okay thank you KayDee. I'm calling from UK Health Corps to ask you a couple questions and get some information. Do you have a couple of minutes to talk?"

"Oh okay, um yeah?"

"So first I want to start out with that on September 8th you took a covid test at The 90 location correct?)

"Yes I did."

"So we do have the results and you have tested positive for corona."

My face turned white and my jaw dropped. I immediately turned to my mom in the car with my eyes wide open. She looked at me with a worried face because she couldn't hear the conversation I was having on the phone, but she knew by the look on my face that it wasn't good. 

"Um oh okay"

"I'm going to go over a lot fo stuff with you so you just stop me at any time with questions or anything. Okay?"

"Okay"

"Okay! So what made you get a test in the first place? Were you around someone who tested positive? Did you have symptoms? Or were you just curious?"

"I was really just curious and the testing site is right across from my dorm so I thought I would get tested just to be safe."

"Okay. You are required to quarantine for ten days, so would your two options are at home or in an isolation dorm. Which would you rather do?"

"Um I don't really know. I never really thought about it. Can you tell me more about the isolation dorms?"

"Yeah of course! Monday-Friday you get breakfast, lunch, and dinner and on the weekend you get brunch and dinner. You are more than welcome to get DoorDash, Uber Eats, or GrubHub if you don't want dining hall food."

"I think I'm going to stay at my house."

"Is there any possible way you can go home today?"

"Well I'm already here so yes haha"

"*laughs* Okay good"

This conversation goes on for 20 minutes. He asked me my demographics for the health departments. He asked me questions about symptoms that I had. He asked me who all I've been in contact with and their information. but the simple, short story is... I contracted COVID and found out on September 11th, 2020. This is Night One at home of my quarantine process.