"I was exposed by a cancer patient who finished a second round of chemotherapy earlier this month. They weren't vaccinated within the last year because they were undergoing chemo. They were exposed after Saturday evening mass at their Catholic church in Florida, where others around them were likely not vaccinated, and definitely unmasked, unlike the cancer patient. A dementia patient who refused to mask was the vector between the congregation and the cancer patient."
"What I'm not certain I'll recover from is the trauma of having to check my father the cancer patient for a pulse last week when he collapsed on the kitchen floor, reviving him, getting him up and moving and into my car so I could rush him from their remote home to an urgent care facility more than 30 minutes away."
The narrator contracted COVID after exposure to a cancer patient who recently finished chemotherapy and had not been vaccinated within the last year. The exposure occurred following Saturday evening mass where many congregants were likely unvaccinated and unmasked, and a dementia patient who refused to mask served as the vector. The cancer patient is recovering at about 90% capacity but is slow and requires supervision. The narrator is about 95% recovered but retains sinus congestion, chest mucus, and bruised ribs and throat from severe coughing. A traumatic emergency arose when the narrator checked the collapsing father's pulse, revived him, and drove him over 30 minutes to urgent care without masks, unintentionally sharing the car with infectious exhalations.
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