Dio is still sick. I let him sleep in and then we got him tested at the local pharmacy. Negative (with the caveat that this was a rapid antigen test and not as precise as a PCR test).
The pharmacy said there might be openings to the general public for the Astra-Zeneca vaccine at the end of the week. They're giving priority to people 55+, but sometimes they have spots open because they need to use the rest of the ampoule that day or have to throw it away. So any of my Nice friends, call the Pharmacie du Vieux Nice on Thursday and/or Friday afternoon and see if they have any spots open for you!
(I'd still prefer to have the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, but having access at all is a great thing.)
I worked all morning and then listened to a lunchtime webinar about implementing upright vaginal breech birth in a hospital in Denmark. It was so inspiring to see the rapid change they were able to make and how supportive and coooperative everyone is, from midwives to doctors to nurses.
Dio didn't feel well enough to go out in the afternoon, but I was going a bit stir-crazy! The sun was shining and it was 19C again. I took Ivy out for a nice walk around the port and back. We spied a group of her friends at the beach, so on the way home I dropped her off to play for an hour. She was SO SAD she couldn't swim. She said, "Tomorrow as soon as I get my cast off, the first thing I'm going to do is go swimming!" I approve 100%.
Eric, Zari, and Inga had their usual soccer practices.
Other good news: the kids are finally attached to Eric's carte vitale! That means we can pay most of Ivy's hospital bills with assurance maladie. Not that the bills are that high, anyway...but it still helps.
I made chicken pot pie for dinner, always a hit. We watched a few episodes of The Unlisted (so far, pretty fun for the kids) and then tuned into president Macron's speech. We're having a worrisome resurgence of Covid infections, so the entire country is going into a soft lockdown (one we've already been in here in the Alpes-Maritimes).
Not a lot will change for us, other than the entire country is doing distance schooling for 1 week starting next Monday. After that we have 2 weeks of school vacation--normally it's staggered, but now the whole country is following the same dates. After vacation, elementary schools will start back up in person, while middle & high schools will have 1 more week of distance schooling.
Not so bad--we were fearing a total shutdown of the schools. France has been remarkably committed to keeping schools open as much as possible and so far has done so successfully. These next 3-4 weeks will hopefully allow everyone to cut the chain of transmission. The biggest vectors here in France seem to be private gatherings. This is the hardest to control and enforce.
"Papa sandwich" from a few days ago.
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