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Joe90
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04 Feb 2021, 6:38 pm

So I ordered a COVID home testing kit and posted it off last Thursday. It is now a week later and I still haven't heard back for the results - and then I realised that I didn't register. :wall:
I got an email on the day I received the test, which gave me a code, and it said "please keep this code for later." The "for later" bit confused me, so I wrote the code down in a notepad and totally forgot to read the rest of the email, where there was a link (somewhere near the bottom of the page) to register in order to get my result.
I read the email again today and found the register bit, but although I have the code it still doesn't let me register now because it wanted the barcode number that was on the box that I posted the completed test in. So I shall never know my results.

I thought it registered automatically when I ordered the test, as it asked me to put in my email address and phone number and I ticked a box to say that I wanted my results sent to me by email or text. I'd also put in my name, date of birth, area code and address, and I also wrote that same information on a little form that came with the kit and posted it off with the test, as instructed. I thought that the code was going to be used to confirm that I'm me when I get the test results, but I was wrong.

It should say at the top of the email "please register using this code, before posting your test".
What a waste of time. I don't see any point in doing it again. I take it that I'm negative anyway, because my boyfriend would have caught it by now (since it has been 14 days since I last came in contact with a potential carrier) and my boyfriend is at extremely high risk so he would have been in hospital on a ventilator by now.


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04 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm

You aren't stupid, Joe. You made a mistake when you were very stressed, dealing with complicated information which doesn't seem to have been very clear.

The important thing is that you seem to be healthy, and your boyfriend is OK.

((( hugs )))


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05 Feb 2021, 6:42 am

Thank you. :heart:

I do have a habit of forgetting to read things that I should read. That's ADHD for you. I got the notepad, wrote down the code, then turned my laptop off and thought no more about it.


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05 Feb 2021, 7:08 am

I do things like this all the time. Even if I read the instructions, I am still confused and do the wrong thing. I try to let go of these things now.

I hope you feel better knowing you are not alone with this. At least a little bit.


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