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It started with a text message. ‘Please pick-up. Very important’. It was a Tuesday afternoon in late October, and I’d been working with my phone on silent – I hadn’t noticed the four missed calls from my ex-partner, John.
My stomach lurched. John had been looking after our four-year-old son, Milo for the past few days. Had he been in an accident? I called him. ‘I’ve just tested positive for coronavirus,’ he blurted. ‘I have to self-isolate, so my dad is going to drop Milo back off at your house in the next hour.’
It was the last thing I was expecting him to say – and the start of a six-week ordeal in which my son and I first tested negative, then days later positive.