Tonight's picture was taken in March of 2009. I absolutely love Mattie's impish expression as I took this photo. As you can tell he was going through his chicken nuggets and french fry phase! What Mattie requested to eat seemed to change every two weeks, or even every week. Depending upon how he was feeling. Of course, whatever he was willing to eat, we made sure to supply it. Peter recalls often to me the night he went out in search of Chef Boyardee. It was like 2am and Mattie insisted on having this pasta. Mind you he never had Chef Boyardee before, so I have no idea where this request came from, but Peter left the hospital and drove around until he found an open store. Peter almost hit a deer while driving, but he did come back with cans in hand.
Quote of the day: Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and now with this new virus (named SARS-CoV-2, which produces the disease we know of as COVID-19). The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. All three of these viruses have their origins in bats. ~ CDC
Typically I am not a hand sanitizer fan and I don't consider myself to be a germaphobic person overall. Even when Mattie had cancer, I wasn't the mom who insisted my child travel around in a bubble, because I felt Mattie needed to be able to live his life, which meant going out in public, going to the playroom, and participating in activities. Cancer was hard enough, but isolation made it ten times worse.
But a contagion to me is something else, and frankly because I don't know what we are dealing with and its extent, I am trying to be cautious. Several of our board members called into the meeting today rather than showing up in person. It is a little harder for me to do this as I chair the meeting, and sometimes I need to access actual files and paperwork.
However, while in the meeting, I learned about the passenger on a JetBlue flight from NY to Florida, who tested positive for the Coronavirus. This is the first publicly reported case on a plane, so it catches all of our attention. How does someone decide to board a plane, when he suspects that he could have the virus and was waiting testing results? Shouldn't one have to wait for the results first?! Either case, as testing becomes more available (as I heard today through the President's 3pm briefing, that soon there will be drive-thru testing centers located in CVS, Target, Walgreen's, and Walmart parking lots all over the country), I think it would make sense to require testing results before boarding a plane. With the rapid testing procedure just developed, testing results can be obtained within 24 hours. Of course, the CDC is recommending that people NOT get tested unless they have symptoms. I get it, but I also get the need for public safety in the air. Either case, the article below states that JetBlue has banned this particular passenger from ALL future JetBlue flights.
JetBlue bans passenger who notified crew after landing that he'd tested positive for coronavirus:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/jetblue-passenger-banned-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
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