She Left Me in Istanbul

Bom Oliver

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00:00our code test this morning we were going back by the hotel to drop off some of our stuff we bought

00:07and we got the results and apparently i potentially have tested positive i just took a second test and

00:13they sent it off to a lab so i should know for sure in the next um two hours or so hopefully i

00:19will be able to go home tomorrow if not it looks like i will be having an extended vacation in

00:24turkey yeehaw probably have like another hour before we're supposed to get the results but

00:30just kind of sitting here my stomach's in knots garrett seems strangely calm

00:35i want some food

00:45hello it's still positive okay okay um 10 days

00:53okay we have to stay here for 10 days can we test early me as well

01:02here is a day in the life of a quarantined man in a hotel in istanbul

01:10so it's about 9 15 local time here in istanbul i just woke up so i have some stuff i have to get

01:18figured out with um insurance so we actually had travel insurance for this trip which is nice so

01:24hopefully they will be covering you know the cost of extended stay for the hotel room food

01:28um changing my flight things like that so i have to call united healthcare today try to get that sorted

01:34out i'm gonna order some room service make some coffee and kind of get the day going

01:39all right so just got my room service got a healthy breakfast bowl is what they called it

01:58i don't really know what's in here it looks like some feta some eggs and vegetables olives avocados

02:03smoked salmon on a bed of lettuce um so it's like a breakfast salad i guess and a stormwater bread

02:07fresh squeezed juice which is a staple here as well as some black tea with breakfast so stole that

02:13in table that was over here and then it's now going to be my food eating area so

02:18got my desk coffee stand and food eating area so so far so good concept of a breakfast salad i've never

02:26seen it before but it was actually pretty good when i were to room service they like almost knock

02:31and run so i hear a knock on the door and then there's usually this either sitting on a table

02:35or a ground thank you fine to my hotel room i'm going to try to keep it as neat as possible

02:43normally i'm not the best about this especially when traveling my stuff kind of gets everywhere

02:47and clean everything for me before she left so thank you lauren

02:59get it up to the iag lounge which is the lounge that you can use um at the istanbul international

03:05airport if you're flying british airways normally we'd be raiding the place but today is obviously a

03:12little different i'm here by myself and my stomach has been in knots since two o'clock yesterday when

03:20we first found out that garrett had tested positive um it feels really weird to be away from him and to

03:28not know when he's coming home you know this is something we knew was a risk going in but i don't

03:35think either of us really thought about what would happen if we had to separate it wasn't an easy decision

03:40to go our separate ways i think you know at the end of the day garrett was right that there's no point

03:47in me staying in a hotel room with him when i'm testing negative and then potentially contracting it

03:54after him and testing positive down the road and next thing you know we're stuck there for you know

03:58three weeks or a month so i think it's you know the right decision for me to get out of there but

04:05leaving him this morning was so hard i miss him a ton and i can't wait for him to come home

04:14i still need to call united healthcare and take care of some other things for work but it is still

04:20pretty early in the morning in the united states so everyone is still either closed or asleep or

04:25i'm not allowed to leave my room because i am quarantined i can't go to a gym or use any of the hotel

04:30facilities but i cleared off a area so here is the front door

04:40and i have all the way up until about this desk i have this small area so i am going to try to find

04:45a youtube workout to hopefully burn some energy clear my mind a little bit and then i will resume my day

04:52i think today's really the day of optimism and hope um you know i feel like i'll get out of here

05:00hopefully sooner than 10 days so i'm kind of withholding that you know that's kind of my

05:05emotion day and i feel pretty good so i'd be lying to you guys if i said i didn't want to go explore the

05:09city outside right now listen to this so vibrant the sun's out everyone's going about their day out there

05:17must be nice hold of united healthcare who we had the insurance policy with for this trip so the good

05:24news is they are going to cover um my expenses for food the hotel and my flight so a little bit better

05:33that i talked with them on the phone um so i can work on getting all that paperwork here i also checked

05:39my employer so we're looking into seeing if i can work from a different country or not and how all that

05:44works out so i might be able to work somewhere i'm here because i do have a laptop so as of april 16th

05:50we submitted the claim about three months ago and we still haven't heard back so

05:56so for now i just ordered some room service dropped off my room service outside the door here is the

06:02dinner for tonight see it with the the noodles the chicken right there and then you can see this dried

06:08abracard it's sweet it has like honey on it too so see how it is it's very sweet the noodles almost have

06:19like a craft mac and cheese texture like a craft mac and cheese noodle the chicken is pretty good but i

06:26think tomorrow i'm going to venture out and try and get some food delivered from some local places i'm

06:31getting tired of the room service already on day one we'll see you tomorrow for day two

06:38what's up

06:42so

06:52what

06:54what

06:56what

06:58what

07:00what

07:02what

07:04so i think day four i am struggling to be productive for some reason

07:17there's nowhere i can go there's really nothing i can do but yet i can't focus

07:23one of the worst parts about leaving your husband in a foreign country is that you have to tell

07:32people that you've abandoned your husband to quarantine in a foreign country like people

07:37are like judging me for leaving and coming home and and not being with there even though like that

07:43wasn't an easy decision like we spent a lot of time i've talked about that blah blah but like

07:47it was definitely difficult to make that decision but now i've been like telling the story about it

07:54for like days because you can't be that girl that just like comes home without her husband and

08:00doesn't say anything so you have to tell people and then you have to keep like updating people

08:05because people care and they want to make sure he's okay so i have to keep like updating and then

08:09it's like by the end of it now it's like i feel like people were like oh how was your trip i'm like

08:14oh everything was great garrett's still in turkey he's fine i'm so like nonchalant about um he is

08:18going to take his first covid test so we're cautiously optimistic we've booked um a flight

08:23that obviously we can change and stuff like that but hoping that we're going to get him home

08:30good morning guys so it is day five my final morning of isolation hopefully i'm remaining

08:39hopeful i test here at 8 30 a.m to see if i am positive or negative and depending on the results

08:46i will either be leaving tomorrow or i'll be staying a little bit longer so

08:50covid test time my nurse is coming to the room now my heart is kind of pounding so

08:59wish me love

09:01test the negative i get to leave the hotel room i am so excited you have no idea i was not trying to

09:20get my hopes up but i can leave so today i am going to go explore the city and i couldn't be more excited

09:26about it and then tomorrow saturday i will be flying back to the united states to see lauren so

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