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  • Hi, we're the Briggs family! 2

  • This is how we do it during the coronavirus. 3

  • (gentle music) 4

  • Hello, this is Jeane Briggs. 5

  • And I'm Paul Briggs. 6

  • We're just giving you an update 7

  • on our family's COVID virus experience. 8

  • It was a tough experience for our family. 9

  • Out of 21 kids and Paul and myself, 12 of us have had it. 10

  • They don't test everybody, 11

  • but my chest was done at the hospital. 12

  • I was the only one who required hospitalization in the ICU. 13

  • This is where Paul spent his time quarantining. 14

  • He had to sleep down here. 15

  • When I was positive he wasn't tested 16

  • 'cause they only test one person in the family. 17

  • This is his office where he works from home. 18

  • He's been working from home now, I believe, seven weeks. 19

  • I have my little tour followers. 20

  • This is Jubal, Jayla, Judah, and Jesse. 21

  • Can you tell me how you liked this quarantine 22

  • and COVID stuff going on? 23

  • We don't like it. 24

  • We don't like it. 25

  • It's really not nice, we but really, 26

  • really want it to go away. 27

  • Joseph, our older son who works at Sam's Club, 28

  • brought it home. 29

  • He got tested, he was positive. 30

  • And then one, two, three, four days later I got dizzy, 31

  • vomiting, and some diarrhea. 32

  • Easter Sunday I wasn't feeling good and I told my family, 33

  • "You're gonna have to take me to the ER." 34

  • When I left, everybody was crying. 35

  • It was a bad scene. 36

  • (gentle music) 37

  • I never had breathing issues, never needed oxygen, 38

  • it was all my numbers, like potassium chloride, 39

  • all your heart numbers, were dangerously low. 40

  • They were afraid I was gonna have a heart attack. 41

  • Jeane's hospital week, 42

  • I mean, I came down with some symptoms 43

  • and at first I really thought 44

  • it was just more of one of my typical colds. 45

  • And then we would notice symptoms 46

  • for kids that have had it. 47

  • This is where I was in quarantine for four weeks. 48

  • This is Isaac. 49

  • He's just started his quarantine. 50

  • He had a positive test yesterday, he's asymptomatic. 51

  • You see the wipes, the Lysol spray, 52

  • and he needs his medicine. 53

  • And nobody can come into his room. 54

  • This is his bathroom now since he's positive. 55

  • The boys have to use other bathrooms in the home. 56

  • We moved the mattresses out of that room 57

  • and two of the boys are here. 58

  • We are super cleaning. 59

  • We get the kids up 30 minutes early 60

  • and they clean the whole house. 61

  • Start of the clean-- And then redo 62

  • some of the places in the evening, 63

  • so we're going through it. 64

  • Refocusing on hand washing and sanitizer. 65

  • We've always practiced good hygiene, 66

  • but to just to reemphasize and just drill that in 67

  • over and over and over again-- We have family meetings 68

  • which we did Monday and I said, 69

  • "This is how you have to use the hand sanitizer too. 70

  • "You have to do this." 71

  • So I started collecting toilet paper, not in hoarding, 72

  • but you can imagine 23 people, how much we need. 73

  • Our normal grocery shopping is like hoarding. 74

  • We've been fortunate that, 75

  • with all of the kids and ourselves who have had this, 76

  • only Jeane has had to be hospitalized. 77

  • So we've kinda been able to work through the symptoms 78

  • and deal with the issues without having any real tragic 79

  • kind of medical conditions to be concerned about. 80

  • (tense electronic music) 81

  • Even though they closed schools here, 82

  • we could go right along. 83

  • Daily life is not back to normal. 84

  • We were really looking forward to that, 85

  • thinking it was gonna start this week, 86

  • but with Isaac testing positive 87

  • we're delayed from that piece. 88

  • Fortunately, I made it out 89

  • and we are doing much better now. 90

  • We've just had so many examples of love for our family. 91

  • We just can't express our gratitude enough. 92

  • It's been wonderful. 93

  • (gentle music)

Hi, we're the Briggs family! 2

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