Covid Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it gives us a chance to get together with family and friends to enjoy some delicious home cooked food. For me thanksgiving is a day where I am thankful and appreciative for the health of my family and friends. We usually host thanksgiving at our house because we are a large family (6 people) and we enjoy having people over at our house. This year we decided to spend the holiday with just the family and take a break from hosting thanksgiving dinner, so we had pre ordered a turkey from our favorite turkey farm for pickup a day before thanksgiving. This year was a little different due to me testing positive for COVID the day before thanksgiving. My wife had to pickup the turkey from the farm instead because I had to stay in isolation. The day of thanksgiving my wife tested positive for COVID. This was terrible news – last time my wife had COVID, she was hospitalized three times for having difficulty breathing. I was worried that she might experience the same issue with breathing, so I spent a lot of time caring for her, ready to call for ambulance should the need arise. On Thanksgiving Day, my wife and I ate dinner together sick as dogs, isolated from the rest of the family, which consists of our son, mother, father, and brother in-law. My mother in-law had to cook the turkey and the rest of the dinner, then deliver the food to our rooms personally, with mask and gloves 😊. This Thanksgiving was special and a reminder for me to be grateful and appreciative of my family. Sometimes it takes an event like this to realize how important family is and to never take it for granted. I will always remember this Thanksgiving because it showed us that things don’t always go as planned, but if you stay together as a family and help each other, then you can overcome any obstacle that comes your way. On a positive note, even though we had Covid, we didn’t lose our taste buds and still enjoyed my mother in-law’s delicious thanksgiving dinner! Even though we didn’t get to spend thanksgiving sitting at the dinner table as a family, my wife and I are better now and COVID free!