Just one day......

I'm with you Ginny.
I was saying to my husband today, that I have accepted having to shield since March and just got on with things, but all of a sudden Christmas seems to make it all worse. I'm usually such a strong person, but I know how fragile my health is and I'm afraid I may never hug my children and wee granddaughter again.

Christmas is such a huge celebration in our family. This will be the first time in 65 years, that I will not be able to go to church on Christmas Day. It makes me very sad.

Thanks ladies , glad I’m not the only one.

So eloquently written Ginny. Your thoughts are exactly how many of us feel.

Entirely with you Ginny- it’s not just the last straw, but epitomises all we have had to put up with over the last 9 months - and with little prospect of relief anytime soon.
The years fly past quickly enough and this is one year of our lives we won’t be getting back. Perhaps we are conscious that we may not have all that many to spare.
So feel free to have your moment and then do what you have always done - big girl pants on, stand tall, face up to what the future brings but remember, you do speak for many of us.

Actually, Ginny I think it is because of the months of fears, worries and disappointments, and the inability to be with those in need of support and comfort, that Christmas this year is regaining its proper perspective and its true meaning.

This year it means more to most people to spend time, if at all possible, with those who are dear to us,

Christmas may comprise five days, but days to value and treasure more than the exhausting, peculiarly British festival devoted to shopping, eating and drinking that drags on far too long.

You are right, and if you have elderly or sick close family it may, through no fault of Covid, be their last Christmas Day , which is why my 94 yr old mother will spend it with me , and also my husband who has Alzheimer’s as we don’t know what stage he will be at by next year.

Ginny you’ve written what I’ve been thinking. I know it’s meant kindly, but it really isn’t just one more day. It’s a day that this year in particular will, for some people, be filled with emotional pain, loneliness and desperately missing family and friends, not to mention hugs and kisses.

You are not alone in feeling down sometimes. ? for you.

Excuse the typos !