YES! We're Zooming THIS MORNING!
For ourselves, our family, our businesses, Karen and I have tried so hard to stay healthy. Because her L.A. Junk Antique Store is open to the public, she has people in and out all day. For their sake and ours she has been VERY careful. Her 80 year old Mom has emphysema and frankly, watching what Mother Miriam's son Gregg Garfield went through; spending three months in the hospital, much of it near death, I thought if that's what COVID can do to a VERY healthy man, imagine what it could do to me. So yesterday, when Karen tested positive with an at-home test, alarm bells went off. Two of the women who have space in her store volunteered to keep the store open. We got an appointment to get a rapid test and a PCR test at an urgent care facility and last night at 7:00 PM MST, the nurse came into the room with the results; Karen's at-home test rendered a FALSE POSITIVE. NONE of us, Karen, me, our daughter Callie (Karen's partner in the store was also exposed) had COVID. We had postponed a surprise family birthday party for Karen, an event at the store scheduled for tonight was canceled and I didn't send our regular Thursday email because so much was up in the air. What a relief to be able to reschedule some of the things we had put on hold!
We aren't living in fear, but we are being extremely cautious. I hope you are too, and that sooner than later we can get back to some semblance of normalcy. We'll start today with our Friday Zoom session at 8:00 AM PST. I hope you'll join us!
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
11:00 AM - Noon Eastern Time
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM UK Time
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Central Europe Time
Meeting ID: 753 912 4301
Passcode: Martini
