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Post by MammaMel on Apr 30, 2020 7:41:36 GMT -6
Poohbaah, I get it. I want to see my grandbabies! Though it is us dropping supplies off to my sons. They haven't asked if we needed anything. Which being a well stocked person myself, we do not. The thing is... we can not shut down the country from November to May every year so we need to adjust personally to keep ourselves at low risk.
My kids are so panicked they don't want to leave the house. Fortunately they both have jobs they can do from home so at least their income is somewhat secure. MJ and I are retired on disability now so we don't need to change much.
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Post by jennilee on Apr 30, 2020 10:18:40 GMT -6
Poohbaah- I feel you! I have a high school senior who is missing out on things, one child out of state, and DH decided the two younger ones (15 and 14) should stay with his parents in case something happened to one of them (his dad has dementia), so I haven't seen them. And as much as I am a homebody, I too miss the option of going out if I want to!
Prayers going up for all of us struggling right now.
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Post by mentalutopia on Apr 30, 2020 14:12:50 GMT -6
My mother died on March 12. Later that evening my church cancelled all gatherings worldwide, including funerals. The last day of school was March 13. We started our "quarantine" racing through the night, Clorox wipes in hand, not knowing if the hotels would be open to honor our reservation(they weren't and didn't), if all my siblings would be able to make it (they didn't--two had possible symptoms and stayed away to protect my dad and aunts), and if a funeral would even take place. It was a surreal start to a continually unsettling time. Basically my mother died and all normality instantly crumbled not just for me, but for everyone I knew.
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Post by MammaMel on May 1, 2020 8:28:58 GMT -6
Oh E I am so sorry! Hugs honey.
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Post by Poohbaah on May 2, 2020 1:53:18 GMT -6
E, I am so sorry! I will be praying for you!
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Post by ginakay57 on May 6, 2020 22:38:22 GMT -6
E, I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that. Soon as the pandemic started a dear friend from from church died from cancer and there could not be a memorial service, only an immediate family only funeral. My dh is still working although it is slowing down a little. My daily routine is basically the same. I'm staying home as much as possible because I don't want to come down with anything that may hinder the upcoming knee surgery. We are now pretty sure it was Covid that put me in the hospital last month. While in the hospital my dh couldn't come visit. My dd lives out of state and she had surgery yesterday but I wouldn't have been able to go anyway. My ds will see me the day of my surgery afterwards but no one except dh can be with me.
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Post by susanann on May 7, 2020 8:34:47 GMT -6
Oh E I am so sorry , you'll be in my prayers.
Gina, I remember reading about your illness and thinking it sounded a bit like a bad case of Covid 19, glad that you are over it now and can hopefully go ahead with your knee surgery.
The UK has had a hard time with Covid 19, however hopefully we are now on the downward bit of the curve. Our two eldest sons live at home and work in essential services ( retail and the health service) so I have been torn between worrying about their health and being proud they have been helping keeping the country running and of course bringing in a wage. Peter and I were both looking for part time work when this all started,but because of our age and health no one would take us on, so I'm starting back selling things on ebay and continuing with my generally frugal ways. I have struggled with how many things seem to have gone wrong with our house, we've had leaks and pipes come loose, the boiler stopped working, it's as if the house knew that no one can come out to fix stuff and decided to play up! Most of the things Peter managed to mend, but the kitchen sink is beyond repair and now has a permanent leak, I'm looking forward to a new one after lockdown!
The other really hard thing has been keeping up the spirits of my ninety year old mother. She's ninety and someone who is very fashionable, loved to go round clothes shops and have tea out whilest people watching, a real big city person.....and all that has gone from her. I take round her shopping and yesterday did go in her house to try and mend her shower...was glad to see her but it's so hard to lift her, she doesn't believe in God so there's no faith to comfort her, I'm doing my best but it's hard.
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Post by ginakay57 on May 7, 2020 17:05:50 GMT -6
Susanann, I wasn't tested for the Covid when I went to the hospital. They said if my fever returned (it was 100.2 when I got to the ER) they would test me but they didn't think I had it because my chest x-ray didn't have the "broken glass" look of a patient with Covid. But I had fluid, inflammation & infection in the lungs that might've hid the look of broken glass in there.
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Post by MammaMel on May 8, 2020 10:18:43 GMT -6
Gina, In January, Charlie got sick, then he came here, MJ got really sick, then Chris then Courtney. All same symptoms but only Charlie and Courtney went to the ER. They were not doing testing for covid then. So they chalked Charlie up to the flu. Which by and large has many of the same symptoms unless they do an xray. When Courtney went in... March, they did. Hers was neg but her dr said they thought it was because she missed the window. I would think a positive would be a positive as long as the person was still sick but apparently not. Anyway once she is symptom free for a week to 10 days they will do an antibody test on her.
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Post by mountainma on May 8, 2020 17:05:18 GMT -6
E, I'm so sorry for your loss! My best friend died right as all the virus stuff hit and we had her memorial service just in time before everything was shut down the next day. So I understand a little of trying to grieve while in the midst of so much change. Hugs and prayers!
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Post by mountainma on May 28, 2020 16:36:32 GMT -6
So how is everyone doing? Are situations easing up where you live?
This has been such a crazy year for us already. It just seems like everything is breaking loose all over the place. We're trying to hang on, but the ride keeps getting bumpier every day. As I shared before, dd2 is still out of work and living at home instead of at college, and my husband is now the only one of us working. Everything, and I do mean everything, is just. . .unreal. Dd1 is falling at least 10 or more times a day, my swelling keeps getting increasingly worse, and repair needs keep breaking out at home. The toilet needing repaired, a tree branch falling on the roof, having to buy me a new lift chair, etc. This week both of the girls got very sick. They ran a couple of errands for me and along the way, purchased a different brand of snack chips that were supposed to be gluten free. Or so they thought. Long story short, the girls had violent reactions and we wound up having to use the epi-pen on dd2 this morning. We got very heavy rains last night that flooded our road and caused part of our yard to break away and block up our creek. Dh had to take off work to fix it before it rains tonight, to prevent flooding. I'm trying to stay positive but lately it's like walking a tightrope between despair and insanity! I'm ready to have a crybaby meltdown!
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Post by ginakay57 on May 29, 2020 19:28:32 GMT -6
Nothing wrong with having a good cry if you need to. You are going through a lot. Give it all over to God and know He'll get you through it. Our county has only 23 cases of Covid so far. But I see people going without masks and restaurants that are supposed to be at 50% occupancy are way over that by looking at packed parking lots. I've been staying home, not only because of the virus, but because of the knee surgery 2 weeks ago. Today I had my post op checkup and all is good. Dh needs to have the house repairs done before the grandkids get here the first part of July but is working so much.
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