The Corona Virus - A Global Pandemic - Our Family's Journal - Week 8 of Quarantine (Carter's 1st Ever Trip to the E.R. for Scooter Shoulder Accident, More Projects Garage Floors Started & Continued Neighborhood Clean Up)

Week 8 of Our New World: May 2 - May 8, including including Days 50 - 56 of Family Quarantine. Focusing this week on: Focusing on things we never have time for like preparing for Mother's Day, Reflecting On Life Now and Really Remembering It & Really slowing the pace down.

Well, the first part of this week 8 was eventful as we finally got to spend a fun evening at the Perkins having dinner and Carter was out front playing with Easton on his scooter and jumps and took a terrible fall, landing on this shoulder. We raced him to Stone Oak Methodist to find that only one parent could go inside, due to Corona. He was in and out with in about 2 hours including X-rays and fortunately did not break his shoulder. He relied heavily on his sling all week.

Time is absolutely flying by. This is the first full week where the nationwide stay at home order has been lifted officially and much of the state and city wide one as well. They have allowed restaurants and even movie theaters to re-open at 25% capacity. 

Blake and I are continuing to work out daily and ran 13 miles this week! We continued our neighborhood clean up project this week.Macy had a drive-by 17th birthday parade.

Addison found a coral snake on Tuesday morning during her 30 min "P.E." break.

We celebrated Liberty's 40th birthday and got to see the Annyce and Konrad. And on Monday, it was Megan's 40th birthday so I kidnapped her for 45 minutes and we escaped to  the Starbucks drive-through.

 Lot's of fun meals continued - Crispy tostadas, nachos and Starbuck's cake balls this week!

With work, 8 weeks in, for me, it has been a struggle on some days, balancing my 4 day work week and the 10 hours of conference calls I have. The work they have us doing from home is value added but it is a lot, in between running a household of homeschooling kids, cooking and cleaning up 3 meals a day, and trying to connect with my customers. Lilly is very conservative, as they were the first pharma company to pull reps from the field, 8 weeks ago, on March 13, 2020 and we are being told that we will be the very last to return to the field. Our CEO, Dave Ricks, is adamant about us not putting business before our customer's and their patients health, as well as our own. Right how the rumor is that we may go back June 1 but we will find out more definite details this coming week. Overall, as much work as it has been to manage working from home and having the kids with us, this undoubtedly has been the absolve biggest gift of our lifetimes and in large part, it is due to COVID 19 and how incredibly both Lilly and Gilead treated us.

Making an office spot in the reading room starting this week, for a change of scenery.

For Blake, work has been over all really good. He only has to spend an hour or so a day on conference calls working, not feeling any pressure for "busy" work. It has allowed him a lot of freedom to be with kids and complete projects around house. It has been really nice. During all of this, Gilead was definitely been all over the news, gaining the very first world wide approval for the treatment of COVID-19, a week ago for Remdesivir, anti-viral that stops the virus from replicating. Gilead stock did well until approval when they announced they would be giving away all doses to the US government and the world and not be making a profit in 2020. Even today, there was an article published with a trial with Gilead's Remdesivir with Lilly's Olumiant, for Coronavirus. The big thing now is finding a vaccine because for weeks, now, the news has talked about a "round 2" that will come in the Fall combined with the flu. Blake's manager, Selby, has consistently kept their calls fun with dress up and "bring your kids to work calls."

We are in quite a groove. The kid's learning is simple. Addison contines finishing by Wednesday. We continue to supplement the kids learning, their week it is about personal finance.

Blake and I have always loved doing home projects together. This week started the biggest one yet, during Corona. Thursday, we started the the process to epoxy the garage floors, cleaning and degreasing the floors is how we spent a couple of hours each day.

The "before."

 Carter and Blake got to go back to the orthodontist. Addison went to the orthodontist for a consultation. Things are slowly starting to open back up again. To the point, San Antonio's Corona numbers have been pretty low for the past 2 months.

  

We finished the week by heading to the lake, for a change of scenery. Addison got to go with me into a store for the very first time in 8 full weeks.