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Transplant: Third dose, no antibodies: How are you staying safe?
Transplants | Last Active: Oct 21, 2021 | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
Hi! I’m doing my best to try to be safe by wearing an N95 mask whenever I’m near anyone except my husband. If I need to go into a store, which I try to avoid, I’m in and out like a ninja. No hanging around and I stay away from everyone I can. I no longer see my kids/grandchildren unless we are outside and distanced. Four of my extended, fully vaccinated, family members have gotten COVID, so, no, I don’t think a fully vaccinated person is safe for me to be around.
I did receive a letter from my Mayo transplant center stating that monoclonal antibodies are recommended if I should contract the virus.
We have a home in Florida that we haven’t been to since March 2020 and are hoping we can get back to this winter. I’m not sure how we could do that, but we’re hoping to do it! Hope they clean up their act!
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Hello, I appreciate your ninja analogy…so true unfortunately.
I’m wondering if you would feel comfortable sharing your letter from Mayo recommending monoclonal antibodies should a transplant recipient get Covid.
I’ve reviewed the advisory on REGEN-COV (casirivimab and imdevimab) which recommends people who are immunosuppressed or on immunosuppressive medication not receive monoclonal antibodies.
Thank you.
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There are so many of us living just like you! Your story could be mine. Always masking out in public, brushed up on Ninja skills for avoiding and deflecting viruses and any illness really. It gets tedious but it’s what we do to survive.
My husband and I are facing the same dilemma for heading to FL. We own a place there too and haven’t gotten to go since Feb/Mar 2020. We returned back home one week before Covid really launched itself so that was good timing. We were hoping to make up for lost time this year and go down in late October until the holidays, then return to FL mid January to March. But wow, it is so sketchy down there! I’m really flabbergasted by lack of respect and the selfishness for others when simply wearing a mask would cut down drastically on all the transmission of the disease.