T cell test

[redbird]

I have ordered and paid for the covid T cell test, in the hopes of learning something useful. I'm supposed to get a confirmation within the next day, and then go to a place a few miles away and have blood drawn. Then, 7-10 days for the results. I decided to do this because a positive result would mean I fretted less about things that we have agreed are OK for the two of them to do while properly masked, like take the bus or go to the library to pick up a book. I don't think a negative result would change anything, and a positive result might not change what I consider safe for me to do.

The nearest place I can get the blood drawn is in Waltham (four or five miles from here), because they're not working with Quest, which has a lot more locations. So I will be going there sometime tomorrow, I think.

Separately from that, I'm planning to take one of the rapid at-home covid tests on Saturday, because of the dentist yesterday.

Comments

[otter]

That makes sense, to add information to your decision making process. I wish insurance paid for it for you.

[thistleingrey]

Exactly, yes.

[sine_nomine]

You likely know better but, as I understand it, you were potentially exposed too recently for the test to be accurate. The rapid relates to speed of results, not accuracy after a short time frame.

[redbird]

Different kind of test: if I have useful T cells, this test might show a positive resulta few months after either vaccination or infection. This specific test isn't about what might have happened yesterday,

[sine_nomine]

No, you mentioned the rapid at home COVID test. But I missed the Saturday part of your sentence. Apologies.

[redbird]

No problem.

[sabotabby]

Good luck. I hope you get some answers.

[redbird]

Thanks. The blood draw was quick and easy, and as long as I was in Waltham I walked to Lizzt's Ice Cream, and came home with quarts of chocolate and black raspberry, and a pint of chocolate orgy. It's a nice walk, across the Charles River, and I decided that good mask + roomy store + very few customers on a weekday during school hours was an acceptable risk.

There aren't a lot of things I actually want to do that are within my current walking distance, since normally I'd have to walk there and back, rather than not get into a Lyft a fifth of a mile further from my apartment than if I had gone directly from having my blood drawn.