Quarantine Day 11
Bit of a slower day today but still feeling fine and we are both still healthy which remains the most important point. Did my usual workout, walking and video chatting, played lots of games, ate too many snacks and watched TV. The highlight was a great game called Pandemic, which we lost (as in we failed to stop the spread of a deadly disease around the world….). - feel like that isn’t the best omen but it was still fun trying.
As promised I video-ed bits and pieces of my day and sent them off to the film-maker, this included literally setting up my phone to record me watching Netflix. I assume that footage will be unusable (at severe risk of boring the audience to sleep), but it didn’t feel right to leave out that key part of my day.
I got a phone call and a visit to explain to me about the test tomorrow. I have to wake up and then before doing anything else (including eating, drinking, brushing teeth), spit into the provided specimen bottle. I have to make sure to spit while making a specific noise, to ensure the saliva is from as deep down as possible. I then have to be at the medical center with my bottle in a bag (kept upright) at 9am sharp with my ID card. Will be really cool to have the first step of getting out of here in progress.
Speaking of getting out - another test done on the patient today, if results come back negative tomorrow they told him they’ll definitely test him again straight away the day after (2 negatives in a row needed), so that would be great. Still holding onto the quiet hope of us getting home around the same time.
Breakfast came with a quite enjoyable white bready thing with cheesy-onionish something on top (per my menu that could have been the “Chicken Pizza in Cream Sauce” but not sure how trustworthy that menu is! Looking back on it I seem to have been switched onto roughly what I actually ordered since Thursday. I had to fill in a second menu as I guess the first one got lost and by that time I was utterly sick of rice…. I just checked and I have literally ordered only pasta options from here on out - so I guess I will be craving rice when I get out of here - how ironic.
